TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hiring tech talent, particularly software developers, can be a challenging task. It’s not just about finding someone who can code; it’s about finding the right fit for your team, someone who can bring your vision to life, and contribute to your company’s growth.

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Izenda

JULY 28, 2020

Developers are humans too (I think). Engineers live in the product, spending the majority of their time building it, fixing it, and taking care of it. And the truth is that the world could use more engineers-turned-product-managers. I once met a developer who for the life of her could not pronounce empathize.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

Our team’s vision, focus, talents, and hard work were central to achieving this milestone. The options were HR-focused LMSs or expensive DIY development projects. So around this time last year, we revisited and sharpened our vision. I knew forging a partnership with Gainsight would significantly accelerate Northpass’ vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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TurnKey Labs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hiring tech talent, particularly software developers, can be a challenging task. It’s not just about finding someone who can code; it’s about finding the right fit for your team, someone who can bring your vision to life, and contribute to your company’s growth.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

Companies across the world can use The Room to hire top talent from Web Developers, Full Stack Software Engineers, through Data and Financial Analysts, to VAs. The other was whether we could build flows without engineering resources. We’re happy that we could help The Room forward their vision.

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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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The People of Product Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The relationship series is a set of blogs that explores the relationship between the Product Manager and other role-players in the product development environment. They are everyone involved in the development of a product (the focus of this series is on software but many of these concepts may be applicable to other kinds of products).

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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. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

As a product manager, you’ll oversee product development from cradle to grave. You’ll work with many departments and people, — developers, marketers, designers, sales team members and the C-suite. Provide direction to product development team and oversee progress. Build the strategic vision for your product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Here are five questions you can ask yourself that will materially increase your ability to mitigate the effects of your own biases in data-informed product development. In product development, attachment often takes the form of fixating on specific results within specific timelines in order to keep your product or business afloat.

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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. How do we price the product? Early Customer Profile Selection.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Directors create the overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Iterations Most software companies use an agile software development process, which encourages an iterative approach to building products so that organizations can quickly respond to feedback and build products that customers love.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

Demonstrate Product Vision The most important aspect of your answer, by far, is the product vision portion. For more information be sure to watch our video on the product vision. Feature Priority Once you've covered the product ideas and the overall vision, the rest of your interview answer is rather straightforward.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. As a product leader, you may be involved in defining the purpose of your company, or be responsible for the vision for the product, or it may even be something that is already set. What is your role? The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in.

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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. This is where the problems usually start.

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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. How did you break into product management?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For a product engineering team, building software is fun! Conventionally, product development has been driven by feature roadmaps drawn out on a timeline to go with product releases, planned at a regular cadence. In both scenarios, however, the view from engineering is feature focussed. Let’s explore.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase?—?when Dual-Track Agile, by Jeff Patton.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. Design a typeahead box for a search engine. Tell me about a time you dealt with a conflict with engineers. Many begin as software engineers. Watch our sample answer to this question here.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

As product managers we could be talking to the legal team about our customers’ personal information one moment, and to engineers about whether we should use Native or React Native to build our app the next. It’s so much broader than people expect. Product Management is Hard. This makes it harder to start in product management.

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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? What’s next?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Why is this a good answer?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Every member of the team understands their purpose and the product vision and is passionate about solving the problems assigned to them in ways that their users and customers love, yet work for their business.” You had a lightbulb moment when working as a software engineer on a high profile product at Hewlett Packard in the 1980s?—?and

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2020

And how do you develop the ability to communicate with everyone? Data Analysts, Senior Product Managers, Product Data Managers , Group Product Managers, Data Analysts, Software Engineers, UX Designers…the list goes on. When it comes to influencing team members, and getting them aligned on one product vision, data is key.

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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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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. Karen Peacock: In college, I studied math and computer science and engineering. “It is about the people, and vision and purpose and work, in that order. But what if the manager role is not for you?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SaaS product management is undoubtedly the engine that helps digital enterprises grow. And in the age of Product-Led Growth (PLG), a term coined by now-pioneer Wes Bush, product management and customer-led product development are the lynchpin to SaaS business success. Part of this requires having a solid product vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. mechanical engineering, marketing, economics.) Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. Negotiating while pursuing your vision.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

She works with users to understand their problems and then she works with teams of engineers to create features to address those problems or needs. They’ve got the big vision for a grand building. They have a big vision about the software product (or products) they are building. Maybe the next Empire State Building.

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