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 Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Requirements Engineering Following roadmap creation, requirements engineering emerges as a crucial activity where product strategy meets technical execution. Nishants visionary leadership, industry knowledge, and commitment to innovation make him a driving force in shaping the future of software product management.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

His insights are grounded in decades of hands-on leadership across engineering, business development, and product strategyand his take on innovation is both practical and bold. Joeri talks at length about how strong collaborationbetween engineering, product, sales, and leadershipis what makes or breaks innovation.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Q: How do I shift leaderships focus from data obsession to actual product development? Full breakdown in the Patreon recap!

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Intercom, Inc.

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!). I also didn’t know why I had become an EM specifically as opposed to a tech lead or some other IC leadership role. Lesson 4: Show people that you care.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Share it with leadership. As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Engineering may want to focus on technical debt, while marketing wants to accelerate a product launch.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. Theyre purely engineering-driven, ignoring everything we say. Theyll see your team as a strategy engine, not overhead. Leadership Wants Massive Layoffs Symptom : Boss says, Fire half your product team. This is your moment to lock in quick strategic changes.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. I would love to hear your thought- connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter Did you know?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The product and the engineering team did not get the opportunity to conduct a feasibility study. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. No one liked the product.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. I was a software engineer, so I was learning a lot of things on the go and on the job,” said Rao of his early-stage product management roles at Parity Cube and other startups.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In this episode, Aruna shares insights from over two decades of experience, including her journey from electrical engineering to becoming a celebrated product leader in life sciences, recently named one of the 100 Most Inspiring People by Pharma Voice.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. For example, in one of the features, engineering leadership wanted me to cut down on the scope to accommodate the ask within the expected timeline.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. Anya also is mentor at 500 Startups and a teacher of product management for Northwestern University.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Hot Tip: At one acquired company, Brian discovered they used a rare programming language (Clojure) that none of his existing engineers knew. Thats the dream scenario, he saidfinding a neglected asset, injecting the right leadership and dev resources, and watching it skyrocket.

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The Product Guy

MAY 22, 2022

From engineering to product management leadership is a familiar product management career path that interests many. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit. Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc.,

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. Before we dive into those, let’s look at a few opportunities where product management teams can take a much stronger leadership role in the organization. Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" There will be more CPOs and leadership positions in product, but not enough people to fill them.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. If the leadership team doesn’t have a good understanding of how to engage with a product manager and what to expect from them, then any reason is enough reason to move on and find someone else.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

This event is a great fit for Senior Directors, Vice Presidents, or C-level executives who manage product managers, designers, or engineers and want to connect with peers. If you’d like to join the discussion, please send an email to support@producttalk.org with the following information: I want to join the next leadership discussion.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 24, 2025

In today's newsletter, we'll explore why thoughtfulness is an undervalued leadership strength, especially in the wild world of AI and human collaboration. Subscribe now AI Revolution: Unleashing Our Human Superpowers We're witnessing a fundamental shift in leadership. For example, one engineer paused after a new PM asked "What else?"

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is the author of two foundational engineering career books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer , and The Engineering Executive’s Primer , which will be released in February.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Leadership impacts virtually all worker sentiment dimension s. Workers with extremely effective leadership are 8.2

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Unfortunately, if yours is like most companies, your product and engineering teams disagree about what “moving faster” means.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Read more » The post A designer, a product manager, and an engineer walk into a bar…by Karishma Irani appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? Lessons Learned.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. She has co-facilitated and led Agile training sessions for students in Master of Engineering in Silicon Valley. More About The Product Mentor.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I find it extremely helpful that the entirety of the team’s time is clearly defined, even when that line of work is not managed by the PM (such as technical debt, which should be managed by the engineering organization). That’s our bread and butter–figuring out what works best, what moves the needles we want.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.? He has held R&D leadership roles and founded Auxilium in 2002 to help companies improve their R&D and leadership practices and transform their new product development using Agile practices.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. That report goes to the top-level leadership. Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. That report goes to the top-level leadership.

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