PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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Product Talk

MAY 5, 2021

Or does your product manager write requirements, your designer designs, and your engineers code? A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. What’s a product trio?

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Intercom, Inc.

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. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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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. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

If so, you might thrive as an engineering manager. We've spoken to many EM candidates, current engineering managers, and even directors/VPs of engineering about what EM interviews entail and we can assure you – practice a few key question categories, and you will be able to ace this interview. All of this is exciting.

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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? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 9, 2020

Every software developer or an engineer should think like a Product Manager. It is important for engineers to speak up and voice their product opinions. This article is for software engineers to understand the importance of developing a product mindset. Engineering a Product Mindset. Develop User Empathy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2019

. “Everyone who works on our product inherits the three top-level principles and then also the principles appropriate to their domain” We have three top-level principles for how we build software, five product design principles, and five engineering principles. Engineering principles. Shape the solution.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix. Before Netflix, Elizabeth was vice president of science at Lyft, chief operating officer at Nuna, a trader at Merrill Lynch, and an economist at Analysis Group.

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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. This skill may not come naturally to a newly minted engineering manager.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In a traditional company, a product manager sits in the middle between business stakeholders and the engineering team. The product manager gathers requirements, documents them, a designer creates a design based on those requirements, and the engineers build software based on those requirements. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Without a unified design library, it was evident that there was no front-end kit or library capable of effectively supporting the engineers. Across our organization, the adoption and implementation of the design system occurred globally, from the Far East to Latin America, driven by designers and engineers alike. Sound familiar?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. Note that debugging is the routine practice of finding and removing program errors.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. The “really close” category includes the product and engineering teams. In other words, Lisa needs buy-in from the product and engineering teams in order to get anything built.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We talk to Sid Panjwani , an Exponent alumni, on his journey through various internships, spanning Engineering, Growth, and Product Management. I was fortunate to get this - I met one of their software engineers at a hackathon, chatted with him for a few minutes before requesting a mock interview.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

While the movement has helped spark awareness over the stubborn gender gap in the tech industry, helping to drive more diverse hiring initiatives across all businesses and encouraging women to succeed in STEM fields, women still hold an astonishingly low percentage of tech roles according to recent data – 16% in engineering, 27% in computing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2019

Pexels Essence of the Article: Focus group tests can give valuable customer feedback during development stage. Three factors are vital for success: It is important to set the right scenarios , the right focus group and the right insights to feed back into your backlog. A successful focus group test leans on three core activities: 1.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

Organizations are nothing but groups of people who work with each other based on certain implicit or explicit agreements. For proof, just discuss social issues, politics, or Agile with a random group of programmers. Management doesn’t care about engineering! Relationships change people. Our customers are too old school…”?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a group of people that want to learn around a shared topic. Teresa: Product managers, designers, software engineers, user researchers… feel free to add your favorite title. Halfway through the call, they come back into the big group and share some of the highlights from their small group discussions.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 10, 2020

While they try to become more appealing to product and software developers, they still have difficulties understanding what it takes to build an attractive product/engineering culture. Today, they find it hard to compete in the war for product and engineering talent with the GAFAs and other agile and technology-focused organizations.

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The People of Product Management

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Software engineers protest that they are not included in solution development. In this way, a software engineer is no longer a reluctant partner but a solution partner who is willing and able to develop great products. Most importantly, understanding that we may have the same job title, but we are not a homogenous group.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media & entertainment, retail and financial services. Loving – and hating – Jira and Confluence.

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NextBigWhat

MARCH 15, 2021

A project group is formed by drawing on functions such as Software Engineering, Operations, Hardware Technologies, and so on. The group exists as long as the project exists and is disbanded if the product is canceled or put on the shelf.

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Split

JULY 7, 2023

But, here’s the thing: Nobody knows what its potential may be—including software engineers! Using AI—today—in software delivery offers various benefits and drawbacks. Care must be taken to ensure that AI systems do not discriminate against certain user groups or perpetuate harmful stereotypes. And, yet, one thing is sure.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the first things I did was organize a strategy offsite for several cross-functional leads on my broader team, which included members from customer success, design, engineering, and marketing. A customer success lead looked into the PM persona, a PM looked into a data engineer persona, and so forth.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

During his career he has performed most of the roles that are key to any technology company: product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management. I was a software engineer at HP Labs.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

To do so, they interact with software engineers and data scientists on a daily basis. This means communicating the user's pain points and clarifying requirements to software engineers. That's what software engineers do. This understanding will help the PM build a relationship with engineering.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Using Apptentive Notes, you can follow up with a group of variant participants to let them know that the functionality they tested in beta is now generally available in your product. Quantum Metric. Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. I see it as derived from a desire to commit to doing to the best we can, but product managers should realize that people outside of software engineering don’t understand the dates we talk about are often estimates.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Kathy is a product leader, computer scientist, and serial founder who has held roles in product management, consulting, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sector. She has founded Women in Product Boston, the Cancer Sidekick Foundation, Team Curious, and Unite for Sight Southeast.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Why Care About Software Architecture? The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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