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Stop Technical Debt From Slowing Your Product Down By Asa Schachar

Mind the Product

What exactly is technical debt? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Asa Schachar, Engineering Manager at Optimizely , explains exactly what technical debt is and how to stop it from slowing down the product development process. Or read on for an overview of his key points: What is technical debt and why is it important.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

The whirlwind of change, driven by intense collaboration with design and engineering, was short-term focused — almost to a fault. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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SaaS is Helping to Re-engineer the Caregiving Service in Farming

The Product Coalition

Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. You know, we’re in a technological age where we can be applying some tools to this. His father led a veterinarian clinic.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

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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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

By contrast, work samples, cognitive testing, and structured interviews all provide more accurate predictions, with cognitive testing and structured interviews each offering roughly twice the predictive power of unstructured interviews. Combining cognitive tests with structured interviews yields even better results.

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority.