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.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ???? What is Product Management?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Looking to become a technical product manager? According to Salary , the average technical product manager in the United States earns as much as $123,609 a year. Hence, a technical product manager is one of the most rewarding careers. That said, there is no clear and straight path to becoming a technical product manager.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Tali directs Texthelp’s product management team in the Nordic region, which creates products tailor-made for the educational market in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ 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. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Think of any common software or digital product you have used recently — were you frustrated with it? Consider a simple example: creating a PDF (Portable Document Format) file from a Word document. PDFs are the most used portable document type claimed, not just by Adobe, but also by this PDF technical community.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

(Including a 4-week crash course for the technical round of a Product Management interview) Product Managers are responsible for what is being built (and when/wh y), and not directly responsible for how it is built. Deep dive with engineers on how things work on the products you manage. Read the technical documentation.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 20, 2018

It varies, but in most cases I have encountered, it is some things that are crucial: Usable interface software: Engineers are willing to put up with some atrocious UI and UX. Documentation: This is one of the conundrums of the world. Engineers love detailed documentation. Revenues/sales are stagnant.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

The architecture of a system exists even if it’s not documented. Without a documented architecture, you can lie victim to the bus factor. Before we dive any further, though, let’s define what software architecture actually is. The documentation for Split’s SDKs sample code and tutorials to get up and running very quickly.

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Split

MARCH 30, 2023

Feature toggles—or feature flags or flippers—are a powerful tool software engineers use to enable and disable certain features within a codebase. A Brief History Feature toggles have been around since the 1970s, but their usage has grown significantly over time due to advances in technology and software engineering practices.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

designed using: canva.com With the massive increase in the number of products launched in the past decade, a lot of organizations have adopted the AGILE approach as a system of managing their processes. This approach has made software development more effective in the last couple of years. Are you ready? This is a fragile system.

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Mixpanel

MAY 19, 2022

It’s, therefore, essential for you, as a product manager, designer, or any kind of product stakeholder, to have a sophisticated understanding of how event tracking works so you can, well, know what’s happening in your mobile app. Event tracking is how you know what’s happening in your mobile apps. Yay for event tracking!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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Split

AUGUST 3, 2023

Regular Auditing and Documentation Conduct regular audits of AI systems to evaluate their performance, fairness, and adherence to ethical standards. Document the development process, including data sources, preprocessing steps, model architecture, and algorithm choices.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

People often describe a product manager as “CEO of the Product.” This sounds appealing, but the reality is that product managers don’t have a CEO’s level of authority over everyone who contributes to making a product successful. As a product manager, you’ll oversee product development from cradle to grave.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Bug prevention: these steps help the IT engineers to defects and keep bugs out of the software ecosystem, and minimize failures, and produce the highest quality of software. Security testing: Identify threats in the system that software engineers check and keep the data to stay confidential.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

I know there are already thousands of articles about how to break into Product Management. I am not going to describe what a product manager is or what he/she is expected to do here. Compare this with a PM skills list, and highlight the gaps in the core competencies needed to become a Product Manager. But it is possible!!!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there are well-documented examples of facial recognition software failing more regularly for dark-skinned people, and this happens because the software is typically trained on the faces of its software engineers. The Opportunity Before us. Be More Forward-Thinking.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

But how much do bugs cost product managers in reality? Software bugs can be really costly, but surely there’s a way to make them cheaper? To be at an advantage when fixing bugs, a lot depends on how the software team is structured, and how the code is written: Have proper documentation. But docs are super important.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Product Management Journey?—?Developer Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

We often recommend looking up your interviewer on LinkedIn to understand them a bit better, and reviewing public vision documents produced by the company. Manager screen In this interview, you'll speak with the hiring manager about your technical skills and domain knowledge (this is sometimes referred to as the technical screen).

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re an aspiring or a junior product manager – technical skills are something that will give you a massive leg up in your career. Product Management is a very young profession. Product Management is a very young profession. But where have Product Managers come from? The #1 Product Manager Technical Skill: SQL.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 9, 2022

MongoDB is known to be the next-generation document storage system due to its high performance, flexibility, and scalability when working with large sets of distributed data. MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented NoSQL database that was created in 2007 by Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Think about something like product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2018

Lessons on identity for a notoriously amorphous profession Product management is one of the most in-demand roles in tech. There are more Product Manager job openings than any other job in Glassdoor’s top 10 (other than Software Engineer). It’s also one of the hardest to define and measure. “A

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand. I’d write pages and pages of documentation before the initiative was ever fully vetted, before I knew if the work was even going to stay on my roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

We apply product management to data. In data product, as a product manager the job hasn’t changed, but the people me and my team work with, and the things we build has. Then there’s a whole load of other tools to make work easier (and better), like dbt , Slack, Lucid, Atlassian for documentation etc.

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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. However, unlike General Assembly and Lambda School, App Academy only offers courses regarding software engineering.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In that past decade, I've authored 150 essays , mostly sharing everything I've learned about product management and entrepreneurship throughout my career in Silicon Valley. But I occasionally dabbled in other passion areas of mine, including career optimization, life hacks, and software engineering. quite the opposite.

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Gainsight

APRIL 26, 2022

And while it is tempting to simply hire more customer success managers (CSMs), that approach can actually create more problems than it solves. . Here are the three building blocks of CS Ops: Program management and process development. This goes hand in hand with effective CSM onboarding, resource management, and even content creation.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 29, 2015

One of the classic pieces of software engineering literature that has had a profound influence on me since first reading it at Penn Engineering is The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Books. Fred initially authored the book in 1975 based on his experiences at IBM managing the development of OS/360.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??. SaaS product management is undoubtedly the engine that helps digital enterprises grow. What is SaaS Product Management?

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Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Knowledge Series #8: Webhooks explained – the difference between webhooks and APIs (Department of Product) Process – What makes fast product and engineering teams fast? What are the traits of fast, productive software engineering teams? ’ and ‘Does backlog size matter?’

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Discord’s senior product manager, Mason Sciotti, says the company has known how valuable its open API has been since its inception, and the app store is a natural extension of that. In this article, a Google ML engineer explains everything you need to know about managing your data – and best practices for your product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 27, 2020

How three powerful questions can lead to better product management. One introduced me to her Slinky Dog metaphor for product management and a methodology called FAST goals. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:48] 2:48] What is the Slinky Dog metaphor for product management? Bonus Question. [35:58]

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