Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 21, 2024

Brought to you by: • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want • Lenny’s Talent Team —Hire the best product people. Mihika likens the role of a 0-to-1 team within a large company to that of Hestia in Greek mythology, who is the “keeper of the hearth.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

That’s the magic of product development! Designers typically tend to care less about numbers and data compared to engineers. Understand Their Individual Strengths and Weaknesses Design encompasses more than one thing. it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad designer. shipping great products?—?they

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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. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

Many engineering managers first transition into their roles as former individual contributors. This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. EMs are no longer only responsible for themselves and their own workload, like the ICs on their teams.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

As you read on, you will learn: The power of search engines, content marketing, and existing user testimonials and how to leverage them to win new users. Leverage search engine optimization (SEO) in your marketing strategy Identify relevant keywords related to your product or service and optimize your website content accordingly.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security? What can be done to increase security awareness while developing code? Silos in Development and Security. Is there a cure for that state of mind?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. The same goes for an engineering degree. Customer focus. That’s a better indicator.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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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. Try to keep things positive throughout the interview.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points. Hire people.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2021

Complexity Does Not Need To Look Complex Photo by Karina Zhukovskaya from Pexels You are still on a high from developing that elegant Product idea that would solve all your users’ problems. If you are explaining it to your Engineering team, spending time on the Why makes sense, but not the most critical.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 16, 2023

Yelp : Making product decisions faster Yelp’s Local Business team can get pretty busy. The team began using Mixpanel to take the heavy lifting out of learning what features weren’t working and quickly discovered its business listing claim process needed some enhancements. This included the data analysis team.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Yet most of the product community’s dialogue centers around the relationship with product and engineering. I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ).

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

Data has fundamentally changed how we design and develop products, but there’s a difference between simply reacting to data points and applying the level of analytic rigor needed to yield meaningful results. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. Here’s how. The wins are not synonymous.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. Learn how to ask your team the right questions, why trust is important, and why being nice can be a bad thing. My name is Claire Lew and I’m the CEO of Know Your Team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. You started with a small team, and your way of being agile seems to start working. There seems to be a belief?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. Your team will work out which are important to you so you need to have a good appreciation of them. In order to develop as a person, you have to understand your weaknesses and which parts of your personality you want to amplify.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. My College Experience.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

For a young startup, they’re critical as you find early scale and you need tools to automate the various tasks so that your engineering team has the time to focus on building our core product. Good things are great, but bad things take you to hell. And you don’t really have to ask twice for honest feedback from developers!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. At the time, Microsoft had Program Managers who were essentially engineers. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. There was no-one in the middle to ‘ translate ’.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

If something bad happens locally, like an office losing power, having a copy of important data somewhere else isn’t enough. You’re not an engineer. On a typical day, Grone meets with leaders of the support team, works with developers and answers questions from individual salespeople. We’re Here for the Symphony .

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These business applications include everything from education, e-commerce, travel, communications, healthcare, job training, and data visualization, to almost anything else you can imagine. As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Horrified, he began working to create more affordable and safe products, ultimately reverse-engineering existing solutions and the processes that went into their creation. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. Your product champions will often evangelise the product better and faster than your marketing team! Philip Kotler.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 10, 2023

So much of what can go wrong with a feature release is related to poor execution of the broader feature launch process. Product teams find a never-ending opportunity to improve on what came before. However, the exception occurs at the end of the lifecycle when the team sunsets the product.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Major Takeaways: “Customer education activates customer success.”

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As I have worked with companies, departments, and teams to help them make more data-informed decisions, I have noticed that they usually fall into one of three categories: They fully integrate evidence-based decision-making into how they work. Over the last fifteen years, I have noticed a pattern. Now for supporting Settlers.

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