Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What is a technical product manager? This is the question that opens our discussion of technical product management. TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. What is a technical product manager?

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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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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Looking to become a technical product manager? According to Salary , the average technical product manager in the United States earns as much as $123,609 a year. Hence, a technical product manager is one of the most rewarding careers. Steps to become a Technical Product Manager Let’s dive right in.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. After his master’s degree, Michael discovered that he no longer wanted to be an engineer.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2022

is a question my engineers have genuinely asked me more than once so far in my career. Even as product managers (PMs) have grown in popularity over the past decade, the same issue looms across the industry: it’s hard to define the aforementioned value up-front when asked for. “What value do you folks even bring?”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2018

As a software engineer, I would typically find myself having the desire to be part of the strategic decision making and slight dissatisfaction when I am just handed tasks based on the outcome of business decisions. My journey into product management started from educating myself on what product management was about.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. So, what qualities does it take to become a product manager ? Engineer vs. Product Manager Responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2017

I have hired product managers for a while now, and worked with dozens. And since I come from a tech background, I have been asked many times (and I asked myself) if product managers should have some tech skills. I’ve even been asked by seasoned non-technical product managers if they should take a coding course.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a B2B Product Manager? This career guide offers a detailed overview of the best B2B product management training options. It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. Well, you’re in the right place.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ????

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. When Hewlett-Packard ran with his ideas, it introduced an organizational structure where each product group functioned as a separate organization.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

API product manager (API PM) is a common role in organizations that integrate software applications. With the advancement of different software applications and systems, businesses utilize APIs to merge them and expand the impact of digital transformation on their existing digital products.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2023

Product Management in the Age of Generative AI By MARTIN NORTH It might be a cliché, but the one constant in product management is that nothing is ever constant. If product managers are still required in the future, the teams within which they work and the roles they play will be vastly different.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

Agile teams have a lot of moving parts, and it can be difficult to understand where product responsibilities fall across team members. And a mobile product manager or mobile product owner role can be difficult for only one person to take on. For mobile product managers, bridging the gap is where problems can arise.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Product development is the process of building tech.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 12, 2018

3 types of questions to ask engineering candidates Being part of a growing company can be a really exciting experience?—?growth Let’s be real though, interviewing engineers can be awkward. I get it, hiring engineers is super important. Could you imagine a workplace with a bunch of product managers and no engineers?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Let’s be real for a second?—?digital

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a product manager is a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Companies like to hire people with prior product management experience and it’s hard to get prior experience as successful product managers without first becoming a product manager. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Specify product vision and create the product strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. If so, then you’ve come to the right place.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

This product manager job description is written specifically for B2B. What makes the product manager role unique in B2B? There are two key differences between a traditional text book product manager and a B2B product manager. Product Manager Job Description. Download the PDF.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Journey Into the World of Strategy. Simple task, right?

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. Follow product vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re an aspiring or a junior product manager – technical skills are something that will give you a massive leg up in your career. Product Management is a very young profession. It is with the advancements of lean methods and agile cultures for building software products that the modern Product Manager was born.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Many people think technical knowledge is the most important quality in a product management team. That’s what I thought when I came to product management with a background in engineering. In the five years I’ve spent at Amplitude, I’ve worked with hundreds of product development teams.

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