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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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How to Whiteboard for System Design Interviews

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

System design questions, commonly asked of software engineers, engineering managers and technical program managers, are infamously ambiguous and complex – practically made for whiteboarding. So what's the most effective way to do so in your system design interviews? We wrote this article to guide you. Let's get to it!

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Core responsibility: How we scaled our core technologies team

Intercom, Inc.

How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. The positive impact we had on engineering was readily apparent, which led to more investment in the core technologies area. It also led to a queue of engineers wanting to join the team.

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Pines, Oaks and Bushes in the Corporate Forest: Types of Business Architecture as Trees

The Product Coalition

If you missed the previous articles: * Introduction to prioritization in product development * Review of Eisenhower Matrix as the most mainstream prioritization technique Imagine that your product is a tree. It’s a huge system that every business possesses, and it’s invisible to the users’ eyes. We bet you don’t know its name!

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How to Become a Machine Learning Engineer

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Review our full Machine Learning Case Interview Questions course to see video answers to all the most common interview questions. Machine Learning Engineer at Hired , about how to become a machine learning engineer. Obviously, the supply does not match the demand for engineers with an ML degree to their name.

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower - Product Management

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. While traditional search systems are bound by the constraints of keywords, fields, and specific taxonomies, this AI-powered tool embraces the concept of fuzzy searching.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s