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There are three principal types of companies: Sales led, marketing led, and engineering led. All three of them have distinct characteristics and traits, however, the engineering led organization (or ELO) has some distinct attributes that you can key off of. They do a lot of ETO (engineered to order) business. They do have a sales team, but the sales people are likely to be engineers, or former engineers themselves. Engineers love detailed documentation. MORE
I came to Intercom from a company with a culture of heavyweight engineering processes. From an engineering perspective, it successfully kept you focused on coding. When I started at Intercom, however, I was surprised at how lightweight the weekly engineering processes felt compared to my previous company. The post Why your engineering processes need to solve real problems appeared first on Inside Intercom. MORE
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. “Invisible engines” are software platforms, software which makes services available to other software through Application Programming Interfaces. MORE
The product growth engine provides a framework for getting up the adoption curve. The post Product Growth Engine by Dave Martin appeared first on Mind the Product. MORE
Those unfamiliar with what product engineers do could be forgiven for assuming that it’s all broadly the same job. But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, bridged only by the common use of technology. Being a Consultant Engineer. MORE
One thing we’ve found valuable is scaling culture through engineering projects, and I’m going to share two examples. When engineers have empathy for salespeople , amazing things happen. Company culture is incredibly hard, yet also incredibly important. MORE
Your ability to influence and work effectively with engineers is a huge part of whether or not you’ll be successful as a Product Manager, and also whether you’ll be satisfied with your job. Let’s discuss how to work more effectively with your engineering team and individual engineers. If you can’t get your engineers to build the product that you believe meets customer needs and moves forward on your vision, then your product will fail and so will you. MORE
Great engineers leave when they are no longer excited by an opportunity. These engineers are in demand, they have other companies constantly knocking on their doors, pitching them exciting opportunities, as well as money, in an attempt to convince them to leave. MORE
Let’s stop calling it software engineering or software development. Much of the language of software creation is based on the manufacturing metaphor. We “plan” software. We “engineer” software. We “assemble” software. MORE
An interview for a software engineer position at a leading tech company has the potential to be a life-changing and career-defining event. Here are three night-before tips for crushing your software engineer interview. and “what makes you right for a software engineer role?” MORE
Design agencies and engineering teams are filled with talented and experienced people. Both agencies and engineering team are often evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their individual output. In my experience, design agencies and engineering teams can successfully work together if they have the right structure, oversight and mindset in place. Session with Engineering (60m). Agile Best Practices: SVP of Engineering Jeff Nielsen on Iteration Planning. MORE
Interview assignments have become a common component of the hiring process for engineering roles. If you’re interviewing for a job at Intercom, we aim to develop a holistic understanding of the way you think about building product and approach engineering problems. Engineering MORE
He made six primary points on making better use of engineering teams. Provide Engineers with Full… Product StrategyBy Mark Littlewood – Business of Software hosted Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group earlier this year in London for a talk based around the new edition of his book, Inspired: How to Make Tech Products Customers Love. MORE
This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another. MORE
Are there any new engineering processes that might slow things down? The post Embracing the deadline: How engineers benefit from delivery dates appeared first on Inside Intercom. Engineering deadlines project management MORE
Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” MORE
What do you do if your engineering capacity is reduced by 30% each year? For Mihnea and Points they knew that every year 30% of the engineering capacity would be dedicated to product maintenance and thus be unavailable for the roadmap. The post Dude Who Stole My Engineering Capacity? MORE
When working with your engineering team, you need to read the team you are dealing with and then adjust accordingly. Lawley describes three major types of personalities in engineers. This is an engineer who’s brilliant but insists on arguing about everything. MORE
We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office. My time as an engineering manager at Intercom has reinforced for me the parallels between team sports and being part of a successful engineering team. Startups company culture Engineering engineering teams MORE
When was the last time you bought lunch for your whole engineering team? Or, have you ever taken some of your engineers out after work to get to know them better? Engineers don’t get the chance to go out on the road and attend events. MORE
We're excited to give you a sneak preview of Exponent's new software engineering interview prep course! If you sign up now, you'll get a discount on the full course when it launches next month, and we'll also send you our new Software Engineering Interview Study Guide for free! MORE
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Product-oriented engineering teams do more than just write code. From staying involved with product and design decision-making to encouraging any and all ideas on a cultural level, here are five ways engineering teams can better influence the products that they’re working on. MORE
Unsplash Neha has an engineering and MBA background. An Engineer’s Journey To Become A Data Scientist was originally published in Towards Data Science on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. MORE
As product engineers, we like to build things, we like to solve problems, and we also want to have impact, right? From an engineer’s point of view, my work was done, right? Empathy engineering. How do we have maximum impact as engineers? MORE
I’m a group product manager at Yelp, and in this presentation from MTP Engage, I look at why it’s so important to create a supportive culture where product people and engineers collaborate and trust each other. Those values also express themselves on the product and engineering teams. MORE
On call work like this can be a powerful customer orientated activity that connects engineers to the value customers get from your product. We realized that we had ended up with an on call setup we weren’t proud of, and had a number of critical problems that we wanted to solve, such as: There were too many people on call at any moment in time – our infrastructure wasn’t so large that it required at least five engineers having their weekends disrupted. MORE
Many engineers who make the transition to a management role face a bit of a conundrum – if I stop doing hands-on work, my team will lose a strong engineer and instead will gain an inexperienced manager. My answer was instant: I wanted to onboard as an engineer. MORE
The transition from engineering to product management is one of the most difficult. Of all roles that touch the product, engineers are the furthest removed from the market and the customers. It can be done successfully however, as many engineers have already proven. MORE
No product manager can succeed without strong collaboration with their engineering team. Do you send the engineers flowers? The post 10 Easy Steps for Making Your Engineering Team Fall in Love With You appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. MORE
Being a software engineer in my past life, I always wished that I had more context on why I was building something. Now that I wear the product management shoes, I want to make sure that I am listening to my engineering teams wants/hates and how I can help them be successful. MORE
Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact. It’s important that engineers are given the support to feel comfortable doing this. MORE
As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. 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. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe. One of my friends who had worked at Digg had moved there, and I went to work on the infrastructure engineering team. MORE
The post How we’re building a marketing engine to move upmarket appeared first on Inside Intercom. Most SaaS companies start with a single solution designed for a single audience. MORE
On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Engineering leaders must do 2 things: a) execute and deliver high-quality software on a predictable schedule, and b) have the people skills to attract, retain and develop strong talent. I got into engineering through my father. MORE
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DECEMBER 12, 2018
Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.”
280 Group
DECEMBER 9, 2019
When working with your engineering team, you need to read the team you are dealing with and then adjust accordingly. Lawley describes three major types of personalities in engineers. This is an engineer who’s brilliant but insists on arguing about everything.
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Mind the Product
JANUARY 10, 2020
The product growth engine provides a framework for getting up the adoption curve. The post Product Growth Engine by Dave Martin appeared first on Mind the Product.
280 Group
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
When was the last time you bought lunch for your whole engineering team? Or, have you ever taken some of your engineers out after work to get to know them better? Engineers don’t get the chance to go out on the road and attend events.
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OCTOBER 5, 2018
He made six primary points on making better use of engineering teams. Provide Engineers with Full… Product StrategyBy Mark Littlewood – Business of Software hosted Marty Cagan, founder of Silicon Valley Product Group earlier this year in London for a talk based around the new edition of his book, Inspired: How to Make Tech Products Customers Love.
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280 Group
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Your ability to influence and work effectively with engineers is a huge part of whether or not you’ll be successful as a Product Manager, and also whether you’ll be satisfied with your job. Let’s discuss how to work more effectively with your engineering team and individual engineers. If you can’t get your engineers to build the product that you believe meets customer needs and moves forward on your vision, then your product will fail and so will you.
The Product Bistro
JULY 20, 2018
There are three principal types of companies: Sales led, marketing led, and engineering led. All three of them have distinct characteristics and traits, however, the engineering led organization (or ELO) has some distinct attributes that you can key off of. They do a lot of ETO (engineered to order) business. They do have a sales team, but the sales people are likely to be engineers, or former engineers themselves. Engineers love detailed documentation.
Inside Intercom
AUGUST 6, 2019
Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact. It’s important that engineers are given the support to feel comfortable doing this.
Inside Intercom
JUNE 17, 2019
Interview assignments have become a common component of the hiring process for engineering roles. If you’re interviewing for a job at Intercom, we aim to develop a holistic understanding of the way you think about building product and approach engineering problems. Engineering
Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker
It seems like PMs and engineers have grown to hate embedded reporting. How to evaluate embedded analytic solutions as strategy to greatly reduce initial and on-going engineering effort. For a long time, Product Managers have found it challenging to design interfaces inside their products that users could use for reporting.
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Piyanka Jain
APRIL 2, 2019
Unsplash Neha has an engineering and MBA background. An Engineer’s Journey To Become A Data Scientist was originally published in Towards Data Science on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
NOVEMBER 30, 2019
An interview for a software engineer position at a leading tech company has the potential to be a life-changing and career-defining event. Here are three night-before tips for crushing your software engineer interview. and “what makes you right for a software engineer role?”
Inside Intercom
MARCH 1, 2019
As product engineers, we like to build things, we like to solve problems, and we also want to have impact, right? From an engineer’s point of view, my work was done, right? Empathy engineering. How do we have maximum impact as engineers?
Mind the Product
JUNE 15, 2018
I’m a group product manager at Yelp, and in this presentation from MTP Engage, I look at why it’s so important to create a supportive culture where product people and engineers collaborate and trust each other. Those values also express themselves on the product and engineering teams.
Amplitude
OCTOBER 7, 2019
One thing we’ve found valuable is scaling culture through engineering projects, and I’m going to share two examples. When engineers have empathy for salespeople , amazing things happen. Company culture is incredibly hard, yet also incredibly important.
Inside Intercom
APRIL 20, 2018
I came to Intercom from a company with a culture of heavyweight engineering processes. From an engineering perspective, it successfully kept you focused on coding. When I started at Intercom, however, I was surprised at how lightweight the weekly engineering processes felt compared to my previous company. The post Why your engineering processes need to solve real problems appeared first on Inside Intercom.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
AUGUST 14, 2019
We're excited to give you a sneak preview of Exponent's new software engineering interview prep course! If you sign up now, you'll get a discount on the full course when it launches next month, and we'll also send you our new Software Engineering Interview Study Guide for free!
Product Bookshelf
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. “Invisible engines” are software platforms, software which makes services available to other software through Application Programming Interfaces.
Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker
It seems like PMs and engineers have grown to hate embedded reporting. How to evaluate embedded analytic solutions as strategy to greatly reduce initial and on-going engineering effort.
bpma ProductHub
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The transition from engineering to product management is one of the most difficult. Of all roles that touch the product, engineers are the furthest removed from the market and the customers. It can be done successfully however, as many engineers have already proven.
Mind the Product
AUGUST 2, 2017
Design agencies and engineering teams are filled with talented and experienced people. Both agencies and engineering team are often evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their individual output. In my experience, design agencies and engineering teams can successfully work together if they have the right structure, oversight and mindset in place. Session with Engineering (60m). Agile Best Practices: SVP of Engineering Jeff Nielsen on Iteration Planning.
Inside Intercom
MAY 29, 2018
Those unfamiliar with what product engineers do could be forgiven for assuming that it’s all broadly the same job. But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, bridged only by the common use of technology. Being a Consultant Engineer.
Inside Intercom
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Are there any new engineering processes that might slow things down? The post Embracing the deadline: How engineers benefit from delivery dates appeared first on Inside Intercom. Engineering deadlines project management
Speaker: Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io
Mind the Product
DECEMBER 23, 2019
What do you do if your engineering capacity is reduced by 30% each year? For Mihnea and Points they knew that every year 30% of the engineering capacity would be dedicated to product maintenance and thus be unavailable for the roadmap. The post Dude Who Stole My Engineering Capacity?
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 13, 2019
Great engineers leave when they are no longer excited by an opportunity. These engineers are in demand, they have other companies constantly knocking on their doors, pitching them exciting opportunities, as well as money, in an attempt to convince them to leave.
Inside Intercom
OCTOBER 1, 2019
The post How we’re building a marketing engine to move upmarket appeared first on Inside Intercom. Most SaaS companies start with a single solution designed for a single audience.
Inside Intercom
MARCH 15, 2018
As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. 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. Today he’s leading Foundation Engineering at Stripe. One of my friends who had worked at Digg had moved there, and I went to work on the infrastructure engineering team.
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic
Inside Intercom
AUGUST 15, 2018
On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Engineering leaders must do 2 things: a) execute and deliver high-quality software on a predictable schedule, and b) have the people skills to attract, retain and develop strong talent. I got into engineering through my father.
Amplitude
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Product-oriented engineering teams do more than just write code. From staying involved with product and design decision-making to encouraging any and all ideas on a cultural level, here are five ways engineering teams can better influence the products that they’re working on.
Under10 Playbook
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Let’s stop calling it software engineering or software development. Much of the language of software creation is based on the manufacturing metaphor. We “plan” software. We “engineer” software. We “assemble” software.
Inside Intercom
JUNE 29, 2018
We borrow a lot of the words and concepts we use to describe our engineering teams from the world of sports – from huddles and scrums to sprints and even goals, the terminology resonates from the pitch to the office. My time as an engineering manager at Intercom has reinforced for me the parallels between team sports and being part of a successful engineering team. Startups company culture Engineering engineering teams
Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries
Inside Intercom
APRIL 27, 2018
On call work like this can be a powerful customer orientated activity that connects engineers to the value customers get from your product. We realized that we had ended up with an on call setup we weren’t proud of, and had a number of critical problems that we wanted to solve, such as: There were too many people on call at any moment in time – our infrastructure wasn’t so large that it required at least five engineers having their weekends disrupted.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 19, 2019
Being a software engineer in my past life, I always wished that I had more context on why I was building something. Now that I wear the product management shoes, I want to make sure that I am listening to my engineering teams wants/hates and how I can help them be successful.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 21, 2019
This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another.
ProductCraft
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
No product manager can succeed without strong collaboration with their engineering team. Do you send the engineers flowers? The post 10 Easy Steps for Making Your Engineering Team Fall in Love With You appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.
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