Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Great tools like Intercom and Honeycomb can definitely help you out a lot to understand your customers.

Technical Review

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

An interview for a software engineer position at a leading tech company has the potential to be a life-changing and career-defining event. Whilst you might be feeling a lot of weight on your shoulders, it’s important to remember that a bad software engineer interview experience doesn’t seal the fate of your entire career.

Software Engineering

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

Software Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Des Traynor: So, maybe just a couple of dictionary definitions. When there’s unstructured data like masses of text or images or sounds, neural networks are now definitely the best way to deal with that data. And they are just scaling that up. They just added more and more compute to it, and it started to do amazing things.

Artificial Inteligence

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap. Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role.

Software Engineering

The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Ideas for continuous improvement cycles in the software development process might come from anywhere. There is no specific definition defining what is continuous improvement in custom software development. Incremental = inexpensive: This principle also involves software developers’ bases.

Reporting Tools

Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. It makes him more agile and flexible, he definitely stands out,” concludes Curtis.

Healthcare

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. An early working prototype you can interact with provides clarity and definition to ML projects, which often suffer from fuzziness. We can’t assume the ML will always perfectly do what we want.

Artificial Inteligence

Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2019

Platform” is one of the most ambiguous terms in tech, so Brandon begins with his definition of a platform, particularly in contrast to “products”. Platform product managers need specific skill sets in order to be excellent at their jobs: Software Engineering: With platforms, your product is code. What are Platforms?

Customer Experience

Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

I started talking to product managers, designers, software engineers, user researchers, all sorts of folks, and I just started to learn about what’s keeping them from putting the habits into practice. We’re definitely not going to say, “Let’s stop delivery to focus on discovery.”

Product Research

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. In some sense, this can boost engineering creativity.

Software Review

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap. Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role.

Software Engineering

Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

In my talk, I shared a clear definition of continuous product discovery that I hope will act as a benchmark to help teams evaluate their own product discovery practices. I also shared a case study telling the story of two product teams as they adopted my definition of continuous product discovery. You can watch the video below.

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Before I became a software engineer, I worked as an editor and a journalist. In my case, the skills I learned while working as a journalist helped me to transition to a career in software engineering. Since then, the skills and lessons I’ve learned in software engineering have helped me write and publish my own book.

Software Review

The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

However, as I was explaining to him, I understood that this textbook definition doesn’t offer many insights. Likewise, product managers often start their career as software engineers or designers or data analysts or operations managers, etc, and later transition to Product roles. as is the case with directors.

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

At that time, the fastest-growing company by some definition was Uber, and so I went. One of my friends who had worked at Digg had moved there, and I went to work on the infrastructure engineering team. One of those is definitely product management. This is definitely something that we’re thinking about.

Engineering

Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

For the purposes of this article, we’ll start by creating a narrow definition of what a customer interview is and what it isn’t. I prefer to see the product trio (a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer) interview customers together. What are customer interviews? Who should conduct customer interviews?

User Testing

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think that’s definitely an important contribution. We like it when podcast hosts do that, so that’s what I will be doing first because definitions are key. You heard Teresa’s definition of product discovery. That’s definitely not true. I think that’s really amazing. That’s a lot.

Product Research

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. And, quite frankly, the tuition at Lambda School is definitely on the high end when compared to other similar bootcamps. 30,000 is not an insignificant sum for most.

Software Review

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. If you treat your position as a chance to manipulate people into doing things your way, you’re definitely in the wrong job!

Product Management

The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2021

There are different directions within software development, and consequently they involve different career pathways. While many of them are pretty straightforward, there are also other software engineering vocations which are situated, so to speak, on the edge. Who Is a Java Full Stack Developer? Spring Data. Spring AOP.

Development

Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. Make sure your platform teams include a mix of software engineers, operations engineers, and product managers.

CTO

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For a product leader, the mission definition and agreement with the team about how you measure success is one of the biggest levers you have to guide what the team will work on. In addition, each team has a metric that is their key measure of success. A cross-functional team at FutureLearn.

Roadmap

Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

It got me thinking about how when companies first started adopting Agile methodologies on their software engineering teams, they quickly ran into obstacles with the rest of the organization. Based on our definition so far, this is a good outcome. I’ve been blown away by how effective the same approach works in this new context.

Product Research

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many definitions of product-market fit are murky, and the pathway to get there even murkier. More than one expert we spoke to pointed to Lenny Rachitsky’s definition matrix, which optimizes for retention, growth, and profitability. And this is what we heard. The problem with defining product-market fit.

User Testing

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Not tools, not technology, and definitely not process. Definitely a challenge, but not a challenge limited to one gender. (I mostly taught myself because the professors were so horrible at teaching.).

Technical Review

The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

In the world of DevOps, QA and software engineers hold equally high responsibility for the overall impeccable software quality, stability, and performance, which only increases the chances of improving operational efficiency and delivering robust eCommerce products.

Reporting Tools

Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Netflix, for example, has changed the definition of a video view multiple times in order to reframe its numbers. Perhaps you’ve done an A/B test and discovered that investment in more of a specific content type would definitively achieve your engagement goals if all hands funnel the remaining energies around that effort.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing. And we need to find a way to acknowledge these folks, and so I talk to Rick Boone, Senior Software Engineer and Strategic Advisor to the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Uber, who’s a great example of this.

Technical Review

Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 18, 2024

With every post in this newsletter, I try to offer the most definitive advice on a topic, and I believe this is that for billboard advertising. For us at Stytch, we knew we wanted to target software engineers and tech workers, and we found that those people were heavily concentrated in San Francisco, or would at least visit for conferences.

Advertising

Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

One way of understanding this is that there is no single metric that can definitively tell you whether a product will or won’t succeed. There is no single metric that can definitively tell you whether a product will or won’t succeed. The wins are not synonymous. The wins are not synonymous.

Data Visualization

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

“I feel like I’d almost be drawing more attention to me being a woman, as opposed to the skills and the value I have to offer” Nidhi Kamat: Yeah, definitely. Niamh O’Connor: Yeah, definitely. I definitely want to do this, and I’m really passionate about it. Liam Geraghty: So, I’m wondering.

Research Software

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

That said, it’s okay for product managers to challenge estimations (internally with your engineering team, and with sound reasoning), before communicating project schedules to stakeholders. Just make sure that you are aligned with your team before you reach that point.

Engineering

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

(PS, if you’re into Slack communities, you should definitely check out the largest Slack community dedicated to Product Management !) So you should definitely check out this year’s winners in the no code category to see which are the hottest new platforms. The answer for now is: probably not.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Jean: You can definitely get pretty imaginative with stories when you don’t see the person in the office. I thought, “If this guy can do it with a nuclear submarine, we can definitely do it with the internet and software.”. Spending time clearing up those stories helps build that trust a lot. Louis: It puts it in context.

Engineering

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. The technical skills include a solid understanding of software development and system architecture. However, you need the right mix of technical and leadership skills. What do you need to become a technical product manager?

Feedback Software

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. After my junior year, I worked as a software engineering intern but I got to work on my own product. And definitely try again. Any final tips for interviewing?

Analytic Tools