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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. In other words, the agile development process is redefining what we call product management. If you have product owner responsibilities, you have to be 100% all in with your UX and development team.

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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Why you Should Invest in Relationships With Your Engineering Team

Mind the Product

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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Good Product Team/Bad Product Team

Amplitude

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. Good product team, bad product team Click To Tweet. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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Stripe’s Will Larson on engineering and infrastructure management

Intercom, Inc.

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.