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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
The process for the product/market fit engine Rahul devised includes conducting a survey, segmenting the data, analyzing, implementing changes and then tracking. The post The Product Market Fit Engine by Rahul Vohra appeared first on Mind the Product. 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
Intro Software engineering can be an incredibly rewarding career. But without the right preparation, it can be difficult to get the software engineering job you have in mind. I learned this, as I was taking computer science courses in college to land a software engineering (SWE) role. 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
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
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
Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-driven I was talking to a CTO of a Fortune 100 bank this morning and we got talking about feature engineering in AI/ML models. With the advent of ML and AI, many believe that the statistical methods of feature engineering are redundant. pragmatic #datascience #bestpractices Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven 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
Did you know that passenger jets can fly without all their engines? They’re designed with resilience in mind and can keep flying quite safely if an engine fails. Airplane engine redundancy is tested in a real live plane but in a safe, controlled way. 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
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
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
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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devops agile software-engineering project-management software-developmentSafety culture is a culture where employees can tell the boss bad news. — Dr. — Dr. Sidney Dekker Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ». 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
What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. I used to be a QA engineer. I thought it would be better, coming from engineering, to start as a product owner. 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
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
You’ve got multiple offers from startups engineering positions, but how do you choose which one to take? With so many factors to consider, this article aims to compile the most important factors into one easy-to-read resource for software engineers evaluating startup offers. 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
Some advice for Product Managers (PM) struggling to have a conversation with their engineers. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ». user-stories product agile product-management scrum MORE
I believe that product managers should take the time to discuss new product hypotheses and planned features with the engineers they work with. The post Skills to Make Working With Engineers Easier appeared first on Mind the Product. 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
A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. MORE
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Mind the Product
MAY 19, 2020
I believe that product managers should take the time to discuss new product hypotheses and planned features with the engineers they work with. The post Skills to Make Working With Engineers Easier appeared first on Mind the Product.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction.
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Product Talk
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.”
Mind the Product
MARCH 26, 2020
What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. I used to be a QA engineer. I thought it would be better, coming from engineering, to start as a product owner.
Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries
To build, or not to build: that is the question. Join Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder of Ridley Industries, as he illustrates why, in most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products. He'll explore why product development should be driven by a deep understanding of the customer's needs, their propensity to pay for a service and how much it will cost to deliver and share share strategies to avoid the problems caused by rebuilding features that are already delivered by existing services.
Split
MAY 19, 2020
Did you know that passenger jets can fly without all their engines? They’re designed with resilience in mind and can keep flying quite safely if an engine fails. Airplane engine redundancy is tested in a real live plane but in a safe, controlled way.
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bpma ProductHub
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.
Piyanka Jain
JANUARY 31, 2020
Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-driven I was talking to a CTO of a Fortune 100 bank this morning and we got talking about feature engineering in AI/ML models. With the advent of ML and AI, many believe that the statistical methods of feature engineering are redundant. pragmatic #datascience #bestpractices Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven
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.
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
Some advice for Product Managers (PM) struggling to have a conversation with their engineers. Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ». user-stories product agile product-management scrum
Speaker: Dave Martin, Founder, Right to Left
How do you create sustainable growth? Do your product and feature releases achieve the desired results? In this talk, Dave Martin, founder at Right To Left, will explore how human bias repeatedly hinders product success and causes teams to miss out on their potential.
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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.
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.
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.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 12, 2020
Intro Software engineering can be an incredibly rewarding career. But without the right preparation, it can be difficult to get the software engineering job you have in mind. I learned this, as I was taking computer science courses in college to land a software engineering (SWE) role.
Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries
Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 12, 2020
You’ve got multiple offers from startups engineering positions, but how do you choose which one to take? With so many factors to consider, this article aims to compile the most important factors into one easy-to-read resource for software engineers evaluating startup offers.
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.
Mind the Product
MARCH 3, 2020
The process for the product/market fit engine Rahul devised includes conducting a survey, segmenting the data, analyzing, implementing changes and then tracking. The post The Product Market Fit Engine by Rahul Vohra appeared first on Mind the Product.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic
Some teams struggle to constantly optimize conversion rates without understanding the financial impact of those conversion rates. Sometimes that 0.1% increase isn't worth the engineering time we're spending! Early stage startups in particular may not need a four year business plan, but they need to start building out a model which will show how they can someday be profitable. At the very least, they need to be able to see the impact of a change in retention rates to their user growth.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Speaker: Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate, Honeycomb.io
Modern software organizations build increasingly complex distributed systems with many moving parts. As senior software leaders, we often struggle with noisy alerts, grumbling between Dev and DevOps, slow incident resolution and many other related pain points. It’s hard to figure out what to do with this increasingly difficult problem, yet it’s clearly our responsibility to deliver features and production quality. We are excited to be joined by Liz Fong-Jones, who has a deep understanding of what it takes to implement SRE-type practices in many different kinds of organizations. She brings together a picture and set of practices under the umbrella of Production Excellence that provides a clear and practical plan for senior software leaders.
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.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 3, 2020
devops agile software-engineering project-management software-developmentSafety culture is a culture where employees can tell the boss bad news. — Dr. — Dr. Sidney Dekker Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».
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!
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.
Speaker: Stephanie Lewandowski, Senior Product Manager, Teachstone
Leading a digital transformation inevitably means considering the Cloud for your products. Cloud offers great flexibility, increased security, and more innovation opportunities. However, moving your product to the Cloud is not a simple lift-and-shift exercise. It involves re-envisioning your product and your platform to identify an effective technique. As the product manager, you need to know the best way to lead the team in this transformation while avoiding common pitfalls. In this discussion, we will focus on what you need to know to ensure a successful digital transformation to the cloud.
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?”
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