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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.)

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Interview: A Chat with BPMA Mentor and Edx CTO, Mark Haseltine

bpma ProductHub

Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances. How did you get involved with the BPMA?

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

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?

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TEI 217: 50% of what makes product managers successful that most are missing – with Paresh Shah

Product Innovation Educators

That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. The other sphere is competency in what is often called the soft skills and aligned with leadership. It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. 17:15] What is a lifter leader?

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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