Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Tali Melchior Tali Melchior is the Director of Product Management at Texthelp , an inclusive technology company that specializes in tools that help people in education or in the workplace read, write, and research with confidence. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. Every day, 50,000 students, trainees and educators benefit from the platform. Every day, 50,000 students, trainees and educators benefit from the platform.

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 28, 2020

As a Product Mentor, I've seen these career paths to Product Management: – Business Analyst – Product Marketer – Software Engineer – Visual/UX Designer – Project Manager What was your path? You're not alone! productmanagement #prodmgmt — ToluAyeni (@Tolu_Mercie) August 27, 2020.

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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. Can the signing of an ISA with the bootcamp be considered a wise investment in your professional development? Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Joff’s team at Atlassian creates the products that many of us use to manage our own product and development processes; he’s got a unique viewpoint on the state of product management. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. and Fidelity Investments. – US / UK / DE.

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The People of Product Management

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Relationships in product development are like the wind to a surfer. In the Relationship Series I have explored the relationships between the Product Manager and other role-players in the product development environment. The relationships in the world of product development can be complex.

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Split

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To Software Love and Solidarity Have you ever heard the term “HugOps” floating around in conversations among DevOps teams? Maybe you’ve seen #hugops posts on Twitter, where software engineers show solidarity for those experiencing outages. This doesn’t slow down the development process. There’s even a song about HugOps.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 15, 2022

" What kind of educational background, technical knowledge, and soft skills are required to become a machine learning engineer? You also need experience with software development and a sense for business. You have to both learn how to develop models and deploy them to production smoothly. Far more than before.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Pursuing a career in the technical aspects of product management is a lucrative avenue for professional development. It also means that you stand a better chance of anticipating development deadlines and managing the product roadmap. If you already have the technical skills but lack managerial knowledge, start in a development team.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

Intercom is a product-led company, focused on maximizing product innovation and development velocity. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The foundation of our operational health is availability.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. How should someone consider whether or not to start immediately in a product management role versus first developing skills in say, engineering, and then transferring into product later? That's not the role you want.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Agile has put the focus of the software development process squarely on the sole process of writing and delivering code.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Injecting the theme park industry’s experience model into product development This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. This speaker gave a keynote on transforming products into experiences: injecting the theme park industry’s experience model into product development.

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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. I’d worked for a startup in Hyderabad, India where everyone had to wear different hats,“ recalls Debashish. “I

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. To fill growing demand for skilled developers, coding bootcamps began popping up in 2012. If you love development and you want to make the switch quickly, the value proposition is clear. It’s accessible.

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Balsamiq

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As part of our educational philosophy we believe that it is helpful to see and hear how professional product folks go about their work. One interesting takeaway is that this unique education does not bring a sense of visual design superiority, but brings the practice of proper communication and iteration to writing code.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Aplana is a privately held software development company that has been on the market for 20 years. The company employs more than 500 design and development professionals. The company’s core services include software and mobile development, blockchain solutions, testing, and quality assurance. Fuzzy Math.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

To do so, they interact with software engineers and data scientists on a daily basis. This means communicating the user's pain points and clarifying requirements to software engineers. That's what software engineers do. The PM does not need to code and in no way should the PM tell the engineer how to code.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. He’s also given technical interviews to 1,400 software engineers who have gone on to accept roles at Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, and other major Bay Area firms.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 26, 2020

There’s nothing to be nervous about once you’re confident in your skills and knowledgeable about the normal software engineering interview questions. This article will start by talking a little about the procedure of most software engineering interviews. Did you scale the software? How did you evolve it?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Even in the software development world, the technical skills needed by each team is quite different. Product development is the process of building tech.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 15, 2023

This announcement comes amid a year of momentum at Modus Create, including the acquisition of Romanian software engineering firm Clarisoft , its fifth acquisition within the last year, and the hiring of Chief Revenue Officer Ingo Piroth. Visit moduscreate.com to learn more. Through its journalism, Inc.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2018

As a software engineer, I would typically find myself having the desire to be part of the strategic decision making and slight dissatisfaction when I am just handed tasks based on the outcome of business decisions. My journey into product management started from educating myself on what product management was about.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

An educated guess or generalization may be good enough but the solutions won’t be perfect or cover all the eventualities. It was developed by the CIA and it consists of sets of questions grouped into different categories. We use them every day. They are particularly useful when detailed research is not practical. The Phoenix Checklist.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

While most product management articles and blogs talk about product management for consumer-facing or enterprise SaaS products, I’ve found that many of the methods and insights discussed in these can also be applied to developing enterprise software to be used by your company’s internal users. At Zalando, we changed this.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Let's take an example job description, a Customer Solutions Engineer: Note how these qualifications practically spell out what you should write in your resume. Based on this job description, I'd make sure to include education history and experience history that maps to the "minimum qualifications" section. Read our example problem.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

During his career he has performed most of the roles that are key to any technology company: product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 11, 2020

And many want to try the product management field from fields like software engineering, QA testing, etc. If you feel more comfortable getting these skills through a formal training program, you can consider the following product development courses. These are the top rated and best programs, including free courses.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) is for those engineering and tech-related roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. The programs at the company are very educational, as well.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers. Most teams had several female developers. And, the managers?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. How should someone consider whether or not to start immediately in a product management role versus first developing skills in say, engineering, and then transferring into product later? That's not the role you want.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Finding a GREAT one is.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. Connect with Else on Linkedin. How do we price the product?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We realized this was a common question and decided to build a simple visualization to compare software engineer titles across companies. Since then, we’ve expanded into Product Management , Software Engineering Management, and Product Design career tracks! What was your background before starting Levels? Anyone can do it!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

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. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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