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The Product and Engineering Relationship
The Product Coalition
JUNE 29, 2021
product-manager startup startup-life product-management engineeringHow to maintain the relationship between these two positions Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
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Core Concept: Getting Engineers to Embrace the Product Trio
Product Talk
JULY 21, 2021
Today’s post is about getting your engineers more involved in your product trio. What do we do if engineers don’t want to be part of discovery? Does an engineer really need to be a part of our product trio? We want our engineers engaged with what they are building.
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My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager
Mind the Product
MAY 11, 2021
I try to give them whatever advice I can, but the transition I can speak to the best is that of Software Engineer to Product Manager, as it’s the career move I made [.] Read more » The post My journey from Software Engineer to Product Manager appeared first on Mind the Product.
Skills to Make Working With Engineers Easier
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.
9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale
Advertiser: Datadog
In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.
Why you Should Invest in Relationships With Your Engineering Team
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.
Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery
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.
Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 14, 2021
Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. Engineering managers are tech experts and great leaders. What is an Engineering Manager? The first step on that ladder is engineering manager.
Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-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
Feature Engineering?—?Hypothesis-driven vs. ML-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
Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits
Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org
Join internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach Teresa Torres as she explores the what, how, and why behind creating continuous discovery habits that give your team a clear benchmark to aspire to.
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Setting and prioritizing goals as a principal engineer
Inside Intercom
JULY 14, 2021
As a principal engineer, you can effectively be operating as a team of one – and that makes it a little trickier to manage your time. . At Intercom, we believe that a principal engineer should “set goals autonomously and at the level of scope and ambition usually associated with a team.”
The First Self-serve Personalization Engine: Amplitude Recommend
Amplitude
APRIL 25, 2021
Personalization at scale requires product, marketing, and engineering to collaborate. This all happens with no custom data engineering pipeline—it all works from a click of a button.
Making Better Use of Engineering Teams
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.
Breaking Down the Product and Engineering Wall: A Catalyst for Product Success
UserVoice
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
While there are many reasons to unite your product and engineering teams, shipping better software faster is among the most compelling of the bunch. At UserVoice, we found that the separation of our product and engineering teams led to finger-pointing.
The Product Growth Engine
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.
How Product, Engineering, and Design Can Work in Harmony
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 24, 2021
The engineering and design team act as the QA and critiques the proposal to ensure that the Product Development Team pursues high impact opportunities with sufficient context. engineering product-management designThe best Product Managers act as a force multiplier for their team.
The Phenomenal Product Manager: Influencing Engineers – Part 3
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.
Four steps to building engaged engineering teams
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
Engineering led? What to watch for
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.
The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?
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.
Conversation With Engineers
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
How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Interview
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 22, 2021
Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Unfortunately, engineering manager interviews can often be quite opaque - EM interview questions can range a wide spectrum, and it's usually unclear what good preparation looks like.
The Phenomenal Product Manager: Influencing Engineers – Part 1
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.
Product Growth Engine by Dave Martin
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.
How Product Managers Can Learn to Love Reporting
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.
The Product Market Fit Engine by Rahul Vohra
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.
Transitioning From IC to Management: Tips and Tricks for Engineering Managers
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. New engineering managers can often struggle with this.
How Product Can Collaborate Successfully With Engineering
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.
How To Write An Engineering Manager Resume
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MAY 26, 2021
Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role?
A DevOps Guide for Product Managers
Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian
In an ever changing world Product Managers are being pushed now, more than ever, to keep up with business and customer demands. At the same time they, and their engineering teams, are struggling to adapt to work in new all remote ways. Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. Join Suzie Prince, Head of Product for DevOps at Atlassian, and make sure your software team never misses a beat during the pandemic.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Antwak Blog
APRIL 8, 2021
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), simply means to increase your website visibility on to the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) organically, which means without any paid method. How Search Engine Works : Search Engines are storage of web pages where the copies of webpages are stored.
Hiring a VP of Engineering? Use This Framework from Shopify’s VPE to Get it Right
First Round Review
APRIL 29, 2021
After more than 20 years in tech, eight companies, and thousands of hires, Shopify's Farhan Thawar shares his go-to-framework for snagging a VP of Engineering.
An Engineer’s Journey To Become A Data Scientist
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.
What is SEO: Search Engine Optimization?
Antwak Blog
MARCH 26, 2021
Search Engine Optimization (SEO), simply means to increase your website visibility on to the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) organically, which means without any paid method. Search Engines like Google and Bing uses bots to go through the pages on web and collect the information about those pages and arrange them in an index. How Search Engine Works : Search Engines are storage of web pages where the copies of webpages are stored.
Turning Metrics into Dollars: How to Turn Your Analytics Data into a Real Financial Model for your Startup
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.
Getting Design Agencies and Engineering Teams to Work Together
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.
How to Engineer Culture
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.”.
How to Build a Culture of Ownership, and Other Engineering Leadership Tips from Plaid & Dropbox
First Round Review
JANUARY 26, 2021
Jean-Denis Grèze has led engineering teams at Plaid and Dropbox: Here’s what he’s learned about crafting a bottoms-up culture, hiring and motivating large teams
The Phenomenal Product Manager: Influencing Engineers – Part 2
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.
How to Apply Best Practices from Site Reliability Engineering in Your Organization
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.
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