Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This first-ever racing challenge, launched in late 2019, pitted student teams from universities around the world against each other in a multi-stage competition to program Dallara AV-21 racecars to race autonomously at a final fall 2021 event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Apparently, that’s just what the racing team was looking for.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. Depending on how fast the business is moving, the types of things you are building, and size of the engineering team, decide on a monthly or quarterly cadence?—?no

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Keep reading to learn more about my experience at the event! #1 Their importance shouldn’t be overlooked or dismissed as not technical enough.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. Together, they contribute to the technical or business projects currently underway.

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Centercode

JUNE 15, 2020

In early June of 2020, tech giant IBM announced they will stop offering facial recognition software until further anti-bias testing has been conducted. But IBM has taken it a step further by looking at the ways their technology could lead to harmful — even life-threatening — oversights for lack of thorough testing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. • Sendbird —The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. The annual cycle focuses on gathering feedback for the sake of improvement rather than assigning ratings.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. It can’t just be built on decentralized tech or made only for cat and dog pictures. A post from Xu on X (formally Twitter), where he says he likes to generate FOMO in tech VCs. They say write what you know.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 26, 2024

So the latest updates we’re making are particularly big for helping our users across different technical levels go from data to sophisticated dashboards faster than ever. There are mixed reviews of today’s process. They focus on the two biggest parts of getting Mixpanel off the ground: tracking data and visualizing that data.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve made it to the end of 2022 – 12 months in which everything changed for the tech industry. After booming for the best part of two decades, a number of factors coincided to transform the SaaS landscape and tech more broadly. As we know, we’re in the middle of a tech industry slowdown. Well that was quite the year.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. For the purposes of our example, I chose only two drivers (Technology and Isolationism), so we’ll have just one 2 x 2 matrix. We poll the team, and they select the future outlined in the top right quadrant (high Isolation and Technology).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. Unfortunately, within the eCommerce field, high-priced data breaches occur frequently due to the influx of pandemic-related web traffic. Instead, they focus on what matters the most ?

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Retrospective meetings with the engineering team. Daily Stand-up meetings with the engineering team. Engineering Demo Review Meetings.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

The success of products that combine utility and delight is partly due to the innovative and fearless cross-functional team that developed it. Before engineering teams start work, product leaders and their partners conduct discovery and research, seeking customer feedback to inform their decisions.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Hmm… If you find yourself at this moment, then you are already in a bad place.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Data Eng Weekly (formerly Hadoop Weekly) brings you the week’s top news in the data engineering ecosystem. It keeps you informed on the latest data engineering-related open source and cloud news across batches (e.g. 1 The Data Engineering Podcast. A large part of the reason is due to the fact that not everything is measurable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

We’d like to share some insights from what we’ve learned so far about software delivery and operations over the past few weeks of working from home during COVID-19 , and how we as an engineering team have adjusted to this unprecedented, unpredictable situation. New situation, new processes? What do we need to change?

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

Market Intelligence Speed up your market intelligence by 70% with (Feedly) AI Feeds The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. If needed, refine sources with your own trusted sources.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

We have a wide range of user types, from marketers to engineers to product managers and more. Working backward, the product team (engineering, product, and design) can decide how we might build the feature to ensure it’s a success based on the positioning. This is largely because of the challenges that are inherent in B2B.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

While FullStory works for mobile apps, the web/mobile hybrid platform doesn’t cover every framework, particularly with non-native tech stacks (e.g. Creating custom events requires technical expertise and new users who aren’t data-savvy will need a bit of time trying to understand the platform. Flutter, React Native).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Given how new and versatile the role is, product marketing management is also probably the least standardized role in tech companies, which makes the process of becoming a PMM quite obtuse and vague. The part that makes product marketing management different from other marketing roles is the technical (aka “product”) piece to the equation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. This pisses off engineering, messes up planning, and all types of fancy tracking and reporting. Do not forget about technical debt. There is always technical debt.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fluency in eCommerce tech. The overall user experience of an eCommerce website or app consists of many technological components. If something goes wrong, the product manager needs to be able to grasp the underlying technical problem—to know how to get it fixed quickly. 5 Skills for an Outstanding eCommerce Product Manager.

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2021

Three Modus engineers recently wrote a book about Docker and security best practices, Docker for Developers , published by Packt Publishing. Docker for Developers is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on all things Docker and a wide range of technologies associated with Docker and deployment in the cloud.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2022

Our digital adoption technology is designed to help businesses across all industries guide and support their software users, enhance user experience, and ultimately ensure long-term user retention. Userlane Reviews. out of 5 star reviews. Here’s a typical review of Userlane: “What do you like best?

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Free tools offer basic functionalities but are limited in different aspects like customizations, technical support , and integrations with other apps. Amplitude is the best product insights tool with AI-based event analytics. These tools specialize in collecting data from events like swipes, taps, and other mobile-specific actions.

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Antwak Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

However, with technology being a greater part of everyday life, it is a must to know about cyber risks. Cybersecurity podcasts have been a useful tool for years to absorb security content, keep updated with the recent risks, hear about current events, and everything else you need to know in order to stay at the top of your game.

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Antwak Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

However, with technology being a greater part of everyday life, it is a must to know about cyber risks. Cybersecurity podcasts have been a useful tool for years to absorb security content, keep updated with the recent risks, hear about current events, and everything else you need to know in order to stay at the top of your game.

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Indicative

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Only Indicative connects directly to your data and empowers business users to answer complex customer analytics questions without having to rely on data engineering or SQL. G2’s ratings are based on real customer reviews. The UI is very user friendly, easily allowing non-technical teams the ability to analyze events.

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Mixpanel

JULY 28, 2022

Making good use of engineering resources. Building product analytics in-house can take away valuable engineering resources and time. Engineers no longer need to spend time building an internal tool, as external software can take hours to implement, not months. An external product analytics tool removes many of these barriers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

2000+ people from 18 offices, across 10 countries, are all currently working remotely There’s no such thing as too many channels I’ve been working in and leading tech teams for a long time, and bringing people together and aligning them around a common goal is always one of the biggest challenges. Slack uses Slack to stay connected?—?2000+

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

This year, the theme of International Women’s Day was #ChooseToChallenge, and we marked the occasion with a week-long program of events and discussions organized by our employee resource group, InterWomen. I could just say yes. It unlocked so much for me.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. Nir and Far covers a selection of personal and technical content, including posts on consumer psychology. First Round’s The Review.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Online reviews to understand attributes that customers value most, such as specific features, ease of use, customer support, pricing, and so on. Competitor reviews to identify where your competitors are delighting or disappointing their audience. Creating custom events with Userpilot.

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