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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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

After stepping down a few weeks ago, he’s spending his newfound time crystallizing his most important leadership lessons learned over the past decade. It happened with PMs, engineers, designers, and marketers at all levels of seniority and tenure. Over time, while the conversation stayed the same, my advice changed significantly.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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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. AI) and specialized sectors (e.g.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. Often somebody on the team is responsible for reading through all that stuff, synthesizing it into insights, and disseminating those insights across the team. That report goes to the top-level leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

Find your leadership style and avoid the fake leadership traps Leadership comes in many shapes and forms, sizes, titles or lack thereof, and has a profound impact on whoever and whatever follows. Incidentally, this is also the least celebrated form of leadership; luckily true leaders aren’t after self-celebrations all the time.

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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?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Third is setting goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2019

Great engineers leave when they are no longer excited by an opportunity. These engineers are in demand, they have other companies constantly knocking on their doors, pitching them exciting opportunities, as well as money, in an attempt to convince them to leave. Why should we care enough to make that our responsibility?

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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. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Their story isn’t uncommon.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Poor stakeholder management is one of the leading causes of failed product launches, often leading to misalignment, unexpected delays, and increased costs. Speak their language.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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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. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. So let's get to it!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Tesla’s Roadmap and Lessons from First Principles Historically, car manufacturing has been dominated by internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Trust, outcomes, value?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In this #mtpcon London talk, Kate Leto examines the importance of emotional intelligence in individuals and teams and asks how it can be used to make better hiring decisions. If we want to build greater emotional intelligence into our product teams, then we need to design our hiring processes to look for it. Key Points. Hire people.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. Your title is irrelevant—if you’re building products and thinking about how to engineer change, you’re applying product thinking. [9:05]

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2018

It’s a term that focuses on the emotional intelligence / emotional quotient competencies that were introduced by Daniel Goleman and remain essential to our craft such as influencing, teamwork & collaboration, leadership, organizational awareness, and empathy. Sue is an engineering lead on a team and Tom is the product manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

When companies do not have cross-functional teams, they become siloed and progress slows down. [13:40] It usually starts in the product or engineering teams, but there’s an increasing interest among organizations trying them out and adopting a top-down approach. 13:40] Who creates the OKRs? 13:40] Who creates the OKRs?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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BrainMates

JUNE 15, 2025

Despite human talent being the largest contributor to cost of revenue, organisations invest far more in tech than in developing their people. Because the future of product leadership isn’t just about systems, it’s about the people who power them. We spend more on hiring great people than we do on developing them.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoners dilemmaboth of you can either cooperate or defect. For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Prisoners dilemma in digital productdesign.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 14, 2017

Before Cooper, Nate has held product and design leadership positions at StarMine, Thomson Reuters, and BuildZoom. As a consultancy Cooper leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership. The question instead is what is the difference in the ROI of Bad or Ignorant Design vs Good Design.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Should they/you evolve the features of the core value prop for existing customers or invest in and develop new value props and features for new, adjacent customer segments? Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. I wouldn’t have the career I have without incredible support and sacrifice from my wife,” says Darragh Curran, Intercom’s SVP of Engineering.

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