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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “ brainstorming ”—doesn’t always go smoothly. Getting a group together to generate ideas—an activity often referred to as “brainstorming”—doesn’t always go smoothly. but during the sharing of ideas they can sometimes be quick to jump to feasibility concerns.

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How do we feel about being called ‘women in tech’?

Intercom, Inc.

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 Hidden Value a Product Manager Brings to the Product Team

The Product Coalition

is a question my engineers have genuinely asked me more than once so far in my career. We make life easier for our engineers, and ensure what the team is building aligns with leadership and product success. About Me My name is Kasey, AKA J.X. Fu (pen name). “What value do you folks even bring?”

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How Much Does “Industry Experience” Matter for a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

For example, I love the search engine space. Just look at the potential that ChatGPT could bring which could revolutionize what a “search engine” even is. About Me My name is Kasey, AKA J.X. Fu (pen name). References [link] How Much Does “Industry Experience” Matter for a Product Manager?

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

An engineer could call out an assumption they didn’t believe was true or a designer could question whether the choices they were making (e.g. Once the spot checks were complete, they locked in the design, had the designer make their hi-fi version, and asked the engineers to start figuring out how to pull it off. It was very meticulous.”

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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

The maker organizations refer back to Eric Ries (and much earlier ) for MVP definitions like “ any offering or capability that requires the least effort to build while giving the organization the greatest ability to learn about customers.” This short-circuits learning and slows down delivery. Have we named things correctly?

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Demand Generation: Learning About What It Is, and What It’s Not!

The Product Coalition

Voila: Improve the odds of discovering your product, make them aware it exists Build consumer understanding of your product beyond the name (what does it do? a reciprocal relationship in which there is giving on both sides; the product manager or engineering organization as listener and seeker. why is it valuable? It requires work.