Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions.

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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. But at the same time, product managers often ask software engineers to assume skills that are probably completely alien to them. For developers, ignorance is bliss.

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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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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 Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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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 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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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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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. We’re happy that we could help The Room forward their vision. Arjoon is planning to further improve the completion rate by implementing an onboarding checklist.

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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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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 HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Pursuing a career in the technical aspects of product management is a lucrative avenue for professional development. As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. There are no two ways about it.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Shape your product vision into foreseeable goals, each one a step towards fulfilling that big vision.

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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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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

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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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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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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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. The product life cycle requires research, strategy, internal company alignment, product development, and consistent product refinement.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

And that’s before you’ve started speaking to customers, analysing product data, understanding your market, defining your product vision and roadmap, or even managing other product managers. Juggling all these conversations can feel like you’re continuously shifting gear in a tumult of noise.

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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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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. Many begin as software engineers. Nevertheless, as these engineers rise through the ranks to become technical program managers , chances are they won't be coding anymore, or not nearly as much.

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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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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. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line. 5 out of 5.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They’ve got the big vision for a grand building. They have a big vision about the software product (or products) they are building. All while building out the experience within the building that will eventually lead to the bigger vision. Maybe the next Empire State Building. And that is certainly part of their job.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Conventionally, product development has been driven by feature roadmaps drawn out on a timeline to go with product releases, planned at a regular cadence. With no clear vision, there is disengagement. The engineering team builds features without knowing what problems these are solving if any. Let’s explore.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. Case study: Resolution Bot.

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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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