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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. After working on a product for over two years without launching it, Rahul Vohra knew that he had to do something different. 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
In the Engineering org, we’ve thought deeply about how to foster long-term growth opportunities for people. Engineering career path. Unlike a lot of companies, Intercom provides tailored training and 1:1 support for engineers who are interested in branching out into management. 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. Invisible Engines was one of the first books on platforms and contains analysis and models that are still relevant. It takes some close reading, but Invisible Engines holds many valuable patterns and insights. 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. This is the only guide you need to land an entry-level software engineering job. Applying to Companies Many big companies hire entry-level engineers. Why software engineering? 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. In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Dave Martin, Chief Product Officer at TES Global provides us with a way to get over the product adoption curve and build more successful products. His key points include: Product adoption life cycle. Product growth chasm. The path up the adoption curve. MORE
Software engineering levels are the road map that gets you to your career destination. Level 1 - Software Engineer The Role : This position, sometimes called a Junior Software Engineer, is usually someone’s first full-time software engineering job. 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. As an example, this is a lunch group I was in with people from engineering, customer success, sales, recruiting, marketing, and professional services. It’s much easier to negatively comment that “an engineer broke the system” rather than “Jeffrey broke the system.”. 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
technology engineering startup product-management innovationNon-Technical Product Managers fuzz over estimates on development, but you just need to build muscle memory to help nail down your… Continue reading on Product Coalition ». 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
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
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. The Process We can give you a general idea of what to expect with a software engineering interview at most companies, but keep in mind that there’s likely to be some variety between companies. 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. As software engineers we also want to make resilient systems, avoiding single points of failure that could take down the entire system. Airplane engine redundancy is tested in a real live plane but in a safe, controlled way. The concept of chaos engineering originated at Netflix. 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.” But too often we equate the value of an engineer with the code that she writes. And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves. Engineers Often Generate the Best Solutions. 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. This engineer wants to make sure that they get to the truth (though usually, he or she has already made up their mind about what the truth is). 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. If you talk about games, gadgets, and cool new technology, many of your engineers will start to take more interest in you outside of being just that Product Manager guy or gal. 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. She was looking to rejoin the workforce after several years on a personal sabbatical. Her last role had involved business process analysis, planning, and market research. It wasn’t something she wanted to go back to. 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. Writing requirements for the team can be challenging when you come from engineering. The post How I Moved From Engineering Into Product Management appeared first on Mind the Product. 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. I manage a team of product managers and product designers, and while we have a high-performing workplace of product managers and engineers, we have a range of personalities, preferences, and communication styles which inevitably challenges how people work together. 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. Levels.fyi is a great resource for helping software engineers learn what a fair salary is in the industry. Look for an environment that puts you in regular contact with senior engineers. 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. But if we can agree that engineering managers should not entirely give up hands-on work, the real question to be asked is not if engineering managers should write code, but when should they write code, and when should they avoid it. Engineering engineering managers 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. If you’re an engineer with product manager aspirations, make the move in two smaller steps instead of one big leap. If you’re an engineer, you’re a problem-solver by default. MORE
The post Adjacent Users: How to Turn Them Into Your Growth Engine? This post in an implementation guide inspired by the Adjacent User Theory post by the wildly-successful Bangaly Kaba (EIR @ Reforge, Former VP Growth @ Instacart, Instagram). 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
Marcus is a long-time coach and champion of software engineering managers with an emphasis on processes / culture / leadership. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). I was thrilled to join Marcus Blankenship for this episode of his podcast. 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. General Guest Post Product Management Skills hard skills product management programming skills software engineering 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
Read more » The post How Product Can Collaborate Successfully With Engineering appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. Best Practices Collaboration Communication engineering PM Role Product TeamsBuilding great products is hard work. The fact that it’s not easy is also what’s exciting about it! Being at the forefront of solving real-world problems with technology is one of the reasons why the product manager role is so attractive to a lot of people. MORE
During my experience as an Engineering Manager, I’ve learned a lot of lessons about how to build engaged teams (as well as how not to build them!). The post Four steps to building engaged engineering teams appeared first on Inside Intercom. Engineering culture engineering management MORE
Frustrated Engineer. Product management and engineering needs to have a constant push-pull for progress to be made. Here are some of the things to keep in mind when working with engineers that I’ve gleaned from my experience. Lose time by over-building (or worse, building the wrong solution) because, had the engineers understood the problem being solved, they might have had a better (or quicker) way to solve it. Nobody likes process, certainly not engineers. 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. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team. Include Engineers in Product Decisions. 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. General Guest Post Product Management Skills hard skills product management programming skills software engineering
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. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.
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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.” But too often we equate the value of an engineer with the code that she writes. And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves. Engineers Often Generate the Best Solutions.
Inside Intercom
AUGUST 28, 2020
During my experience as an Engineering Manager, I’ve learned a lot of lessons about how to build engaged teams (as well as how not to build them!). The post Four steps to building engaged engineering teams appeared first on Inside Intercom. Engineering culture engineering management
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.
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. Writing requirements for the team can be challenging when you come from engineering. The post How I Moved From Engineering Into Product Management appeared first on Mind the Product.
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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
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
Inside Intercom
OCTOBER 20, 2020
In the Engineering org, we’ve thought deeply about how to foster long-term growth opportunities for people. Engineering career path. Unlike a lot of companies, Intercom provides tailored training and 1:1 support for engineers who are interested in branching out into management.
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.
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.
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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.
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. As software engineers we also want to make resilient systems, avoiding single points of failure that could take down the entire system. Airplane engine redundancy is tested in a real live plane but in a safe, controlled way. The concept of chaos engineering originated at Netflix.
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. This engineer wants to make sure that they get to the truth (though usually, he or she has already made up their mind about what the truth is).
Mironov Consulting
AUGUST 18, 2020
Marcus is a long-time coach and champion of software engineering managers with an emphasis on processes / culture / leadership. How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). I was thrilled to join Marcus Blankenship for this episode of his podcast.
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.
ProductCraft
JUNE 16, 2020
Read more » The post How Product Can Collaborate Successfully With Engineering appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. Best Practices Collaboration Communication engineering PM Role Product TeamsBuilding great products is hard work. The fact that it’s not easy is also what’s exciting about it! Being at the forefront of solving real-world problems with technology is one of the reasons why the product manager role is so attractive to a lot of people.
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
JULY 23, 2020
Software engineering levels are the road map that gets you to your career destination. Level 1 - Software Engineer The Role : This position, sometimes called a Junior Software Engineer, is usually someone’s first full-time software engineering job.
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. If you talk about games, gadgets, and cool new technology, many of your engineers will start to take more interest in you outside of being just that Product Manager guy or gal.
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: 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.
Inside Intercom
OCTOBER 31, 2019
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. But if we can agree that engineering managers should not entirely give up hands-on work, the real question to be asked is not if engineering managers should write code, but when should they write code, and when should they avoid it. Engineering engineering managers
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. After working on a product for over two years without launching it, Rahul Vohra knew that he had to do something different.
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. In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Dave Martin, Chief Product Officer at TES Global provides us with a way to get over the product adoption curve and build more successful products. His key points include: Product adoption life cycle. Product growth chasm. The path up the adoption curve.
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: 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.
The Product Coalition
JULY 6, 2020
technology engineering startup product-management innovationNon-Technical Product Managers fuzz over estimates on development, but you just need to build muscle memory to help nail down your… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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. I manage a team of product managers and product designers, and while we have a high-performing workplace of product managers and engineers, we have a range of personalities, preferences, and communication styles which inevitably challenges how people work together.
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. The Process We can give you a general idea of what to expect with a software engineering interview at most companies, but keep in mind that there’s likely to be some variety between companies.
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. Invisible Engines was one of the first books on platforms and contains analysis and models that are still relevant. It takes some close reading, but Invisible Engines holds many valuable patterns and insights.
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.
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. She was looking to rejoin the workforce after several years on a personal sabbatical. Her last role had involved business process analysis, planning, and market research. It wasn’t something she wanted to go back to.
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. As an example, this is a lunch group I was in with people from engineering, customer success, sales, recruiting, marketing, and professional services. It’s much easier to negatively comment that “an engineer broke the system” rather than “Jeffrey broke the system.”.
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. If you’re an engineer with product manager aspirations, make the move in two smaller steps instead of one big leap. If you’re an engineer, you’re a problem-solver by default.
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Frustrated Engineer. Product management and engineering needs to have a constant push-pull for progress to be made. Here are some of the things to keep in mind when working with engineers that I’ve gleaned from my experience. Lose time by over-building (or worse, building the wrong solution) because, had the engineers understood the problem being solved, they might have had a better (or quicker) way to solve it. Nobody likes process, certainly not engineers.
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
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. This is the only guide you need to land an entry-level software engineering job. Applying to Companies Many big companies hire entry-level engineers. Why software engineering?
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. Levels.fyi is a great resource for helping software engineers learn what a fair salary is in the industry. Look for an environment that puts you in regular contact with senior engineers.
Userpilot
AUGUST 27, 2020
The post Adjacent Users: How to Turn Them Into Your Growth Engine? This post in an implementation guide inspired by the Adjacent User Theory post by the wildly-successful Bangaly Kaba (EIR @ Reforge, Former VP Growth @ Instacart, Instagram).
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.
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