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Improve Your Presentations and Tell Better Stories as A PM

The Product Coalition

You can categorise presenters or storytellers into two groups — one has a large impact on the audience, and one often doesn’t. Some presenters relay information. Great presenters change behaviour. Once I realised this, I saw it everywhere. Bravado is distracting. This is a skill worth dedicating time to improving.

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Why Product & Engineering Can’t Be Separate Islands

The Product Coalition

It’s always better when we’re together Photo by henry perks on Unsplash When I entered the wondrous world of product & engineering for the first time, I did not understand why there was a split between Product & Engineering. Engineering decides how and executes. One cannot exist without the other.

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How Product, Engineering, and Design Can Work in Harmony

The Product Coalition

Product leads these activities, assesses the opportunity, and presents it to the team. The engineering and design team act as the QA and critiques the proposal to ensure that the Product Development Team pursues high impact opportunities with sufficient context. And when that happens, magic happens.

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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 Key to Agile Team Motivation

Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader

Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. Engineering leaders are provided with methods and practices supported by established organizational behavior principles they can apply. It’s presented by an experienced engineering leader for product development leaders.

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7 Tips for Starting your Product Management Career without an Engineering Background

The Product Coalition

Add value to your team whilst getting to grips with software concepts If you’re coming to product management from a non-engineering background, there’ll be times during the first few months where you’ll feel lost. As Justin Gage put it , speaking the language of your engineers helps build trust and improves communication.

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Why your engineering processes need to solve real problems

Intercom, Inc.

I came to Intercom from a company with a culture of heavyweight engineering processes. From an engineering perspective, it successfully kept you focused on coding. When I started at Intercom, however, I was surprised at how lightweight the weekly engineering processes felt compared to my previous company. No estimations.

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Discover How Senior Technology Leaders Can Secure the Budget That They Need

Speaker: Kevin Goldsmith, Chief Technology Officer at Anaconda | Peyman Pouryekta, CEO and Technology Advisor | Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

With the ever-evolving technology landscape, CTOs are being presented with new services, technologies, and tools every day. This can be challenging, as engineering is often seen as a cost center, making it difficult to gain management buy-in for strategic investments. Quantify the value of the software that engineering produces.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle. Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle. In this webinar he will discuss: Data interpretation and numerical goal setting.