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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government. The pivot to customer list acquisition worked out eventually, but only because they discovered the real story during diligence, not after.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. But platforms come with potential drawbacks.

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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

They are responsible for deciding what to build (with appropriate input from the rest of the team, of course). Our more senior engineer might be most interested in system architecture, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers. So it’s natural that the more senior people on the team are part of this group.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM. Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for Product Managers.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. We used Teachable as our course platform, Slack for our community, Zoom for our live sessions, Google Calendar to send out course invites, Miro for collaboration, and Mailchimp to send out course emails.