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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

I had to learn a new tool, and a new organization, all at once. Slack is a channel-based messaging platform We use channels to organize our work into focused, easily searchable conversations?—?for We also have a public channel for every feature we develop that anyone in the company can peek inside to see the latest status and updates.

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How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Jacob interviews Zuhayeer , co-founder of Levels.fyi, to discuss careers in tech, launching MVPs, and negotiating salaries. I was looking at companies to apply to and had just joined an app called Blind (an anonymous community forum for chatting about the workplace). J: What motivated you to build and launch Levels.fyi ?

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

The skills are wide-ranging, from ruthless prioritization, the ability to build consensus with stakeholders, metrics-based decision making, and a host of other business and technical skills. Crowdsourced Picks. We have hundreds of methods and tools, but sometimes the solutions come from within…”.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the Lean Canvas is one tool I recommend to help product managers think through the business model while crafting new product concepts. Should product managers be technical?

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30 Steps to Mobile App Launch

Alchemer Mobile

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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Top 6 Translation Management Tools for Software Builders

Usersnap

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development. Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot. A big time saver for many teams.