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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay

Mind the Product

Ethics: The discipline of dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation Miriam-Webster Dictionary. And while the medical profession pioneered the concept of professional ethics, other industries have also developed ethical codes. Ethical Accountability in Tech. Great Power = Great Responsibility.

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How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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