The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
Lenny Rachitsky
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft.
The Software Development Deli Counter
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. And they’re right.
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My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership
ProductPlan
AUGUST 7, 2020
When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management.
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Product Roadmap Success: BWP Hosts Lively Roundtable Discussion
bpma ProductHub
APRIL 10, 2017
By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.
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7 Tips for Starting your Product Management Career without an Engineering Background
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. I prioritised creating a roadmap over the next few weeks. Instead, ask the question.
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Technical Product Manager: Exploring Their Role and Responsibilities
Userpilot
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions. What is a technical product manager?
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Using Product Analytics To Drive Product Roadmaps
Gainsight
JUNE 21, 2022
When it comes to creating product roadmaps, product leaders face a plethora of challenges. . Not only can it be difficult to figure out which features to prioritize, but product leaders can also struggle with engineering dependencies, executive demands, and the need to operate with agility in a market that moves faster every day.
How to Become a Technical Product Manager Without Experience
The Product HQ
MAY 10, 2024
It also means that you stand a better chance of anticipating development deadlines and managing the product roadmap. The Technical Product Management Course offered at Product HQ is a solid choice that helps you master the technical fundamentals of product development. That’s much more powerful than one line on a resume.
437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl
Product Innovation Educators
MAY 22, 2023
How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?
Ways to Define Success and Measure Value for your Product Features
bpma ProductHub
JUNE 12, 2017
How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? Drawing the product roadmap as a customer journey curve : This format clearly communicates how features in the roadmap impact the customer, and at what stage of their experience with the product. Garima has an M.S.
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What does the agile roadmapping process look like in practice?
The Product Coalition
JANUARY 8, 2019
In most contexts, war and product development are completely different beasts. But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In I am a firm believer that an agile product roadmap is an important document for all agile teams.
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Product Management in the Age of Generative AI
BrainMates
JULY 23, 2023
AI-Driven Product Development As AI tools for creating software become mainstream, the number of engineers required to create and maintain technology platforms will dramatically decrease. Instead of written requirements being used to guide human engineers, they are being processed by AI and used to create working software.
Utility Eats Value for Breakfast: About Diminishing Marginal Utility
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 25, 2023
Software developers usually don’t want to work in Microsoft Sharepoint. I once had a product role where a large part of the roadmap was centered on rebuilding a massive (and slow) SharePoint based document management system into a more modern and performative tool. Microsoft Sharepoint: Go Ahead And Laugh ?
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How Do Roadmaps Fit into Continuous Delivery?
ProductPlan
MARCH 27, 2019
When you’re continually shipping code, how do you plan, build, and communicate your roadmap? In this post we’ll outline the basics of continuous delivery, what it means to you as a product manager, and how to adapt your roadmapping process to best work in a continuous delivery environment. Continuous Delivery 101.
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Product Development Process: The Seven Stages Explained
Userpilot
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
You can do that with innovations like 'fake door tests' Once you know you've got something valuable, you need to test your concept and plan your roadmap so you and your team have a clear strategic plan. They'll choose the development framework you use, conduct software development activities (i.e.
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What Does the Agile Roadmapping Process Look Like in Practice?
ProductPlan
JANUARY 8, 2019
In today’s article, we’ll discuss the agile roadmapping process. We’ll start by reviewing the objectives of roadmaps and planning for agile teams, then share some special considerations for agile roadmaps. From there, we’ll walk you through the agile roadmapping process step by step. Eisenhower.
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How to Build a SaaS Platform
The Product Coalition
MARCH 18, 2021
A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. We recommend you use the Agile software development methodology for this.
Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?
The Product Coalition
JULY 6, 2022
The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. billion users accessing their search engine every month. But it is not the only game in town.
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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood
TechEmpower - Product Management
AUGUST 21, 2023
Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer.
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How to create a product roadmap with Usersnap Labels
Usersnap
APRIL 25, 2019
Easily create a product roadmap with personalized view. As the name implies , labels empower engineers, testers or project managers to categorize the tickets and easily find relevant tasks. A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update.”.
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Mind the Product
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Before joining Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy, and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years.
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153 Better Software Product Roadmaps: Usage Analytics Use Cases
Revulytics
AUGUST 29, 2017
Let’s take a look at actual examples of how Revulytics customers are leveraging software usage analytics to better inform common software product roadmap decisions. Engineers at a leading practice management software provider struggled to manage a feature that was written in legacy code with obsolete tools.
The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
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. He had to play the role of an engineer, a designer, a tester, and a human factors engineer.
Run Less Software
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.
Top 7 Companies to Hire Remote Developers For Your Team
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
What are the top companies to hire remote software developers from? Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows.
Taking Product Management to the Next Level at Connektica
Bain Public
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Though a startup, Connektica uses their combination of radio frequency expertise, software development, and determined entrepreneurs to arrive at the perfect time to tackle some of the issues of mass manufacturing of satellites. your product blueprint) Roadmap with your team (e.g. Connektica appears to be the latter.
Mobile Product Manager vs. Mobile Product Owner
Alchemer Mobile
AUGUST 2, 2018
For example, if a product manager focuses most of their time externally on customers, the internal engineering team’s needs can get lost, and the team may suffer. Product requirements aren’t detailed enough, developers waste time waiting for answers, and the speed in which product progress is made suffers.
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Product Manager Job Description for B2B
Product Management University
MARCH 18, 2019
Educates marketing, sales, engineering, account managers, client services, etc. Creates/contributes to a strategic value-based portfolio roadmap that aligns the focus of all products in the portfolio to the most critical business goals and operational priorities of target customers. Software developer. System architect.
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397: From product manager to CEO – with Matt Young
Product Innovation Educators
AUGUST 22, 2022
Matt started his professional career as a software developer, and throughout his career he has been pushing for better ways to build software products. It’s challenging for me and for most CEOs to hand off control and trust the people leading engineering and product. They’re reporting in the same structure.
How to Become an API Product Manager Without Experience
The Product HQ
MAY 10, 2024
It is also advantageous to know the complexities of integrating with different platforms and discuss the possible solutions with various stakeholders in the development team in advance. Once developers create APIs, API PMs use that technical knowledge to identify any performance or security gaps in the APIs.
Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes
Agile Velocity
MAY 14, 2020
DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.
From UX to Product Management: A Roadmap for Success
PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview
MARCH 9, 2022
Real, authentic interest in what engineers, sales, marketing, finance, risk & compliance, customer support do every day will help you see the bigger picture. You'll show off your abilities to get the work done (or show yourself what you need to learn).
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Product Team Structure – A Guide For SaaS Product Teams
Userpilot
JULY 17, 2023
They lead a team that consists of developers and designers. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers. A product team structure is how a business organizes the product team to best support software development.
Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?
Userpilot
APRIL 6, 2023
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. Pick the right prioritization framework and make data-driven prioritization decisions to manage the roadmap. How to identify an overengineered solution?
The Journey of Transforming an Internal Tool into a Business Operations Platform
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 2, 2020
In addition to bringing engineering management strategies to help the internal team organize and execute, I also leveraged product management frameworks to drive alignment internally and externally. Coming from an engineering background, my team has a tendency to jump to solutions. This was the state of the team when I inherited it.
Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
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. Even in the software development world, the technical skills needed by each team is quite different. What Do We Mean By ‘Technical Skills’?
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Keeping Ourselves Accountable: 5 Simple Tools For Product Designers
UX Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
I’m also closely involved in the strategic side of things, where we run weekly IPM (Iteration Planning Meeting), stakeholder meetings, retrospectives, and planning product roadmap as a team. Your Product Manager will be able to reference your calendar and plan, estimate and adjust their priorities.
What Makes a Great Software Product Manager?
Izenda
JUNE 28, 2020
In software development, a product manager is inherently the CEO of the product: the person who is responsible for strategizing and defining the product roadmap. Company size differentiates the depth of thinking a product manager takes when developing the product strategy and roadmap. Companies are like a puzzle.
Part One: Tomorrow’s Product Managers Need to Create the Conditions for Success With AI
Bain Public
JUNE 16, 2021
Does that mean it’s time to embrace the mathematical techniques that enable the building of intelligent software applications using the family of techniques known as deep learning? There’s no doubt that delegating parts of the software development process to machine learning models is going to be mandatory. Absolutely!
Treat Your Product Team Like a Product
The Product Guy
AUGUST 1, 2019
A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates.
How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience
The Product HQ
MAY 10, 2024
Have a solid technical background and understand the complexities of software development. Use it to inform your product roadmap and make any necessary changes in your product management strategy. Here are the steps you can take to land a job as a startup product manager without any prior experience.
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Leading product teams as you grow
Mixpanel
APRIL 27, 2020
Personally, I don’t want other company’s roadmaps; I want their user feedback, their customer gaps, and their feature requests. Amazon, for example, tries to break down their engineering teams into what they call “two-pizza” teams—teams that you could feed with two pizzas. That’s an invaluable source of information.
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22 Digital Transformation Statistics for 2022
Modus Create
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
As a result, digital budgets are often confused with routine operational IT spendings such as servers or existing software development teams. Engineers spend 33% of their time dealing with technical debt — Stripe. Technical debt is a severe impediment to the pace of product development.
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Announcing Modus Kickstart
Modus Create
APRIL 30, 2020
Software development projects require a maker mindset and comprehensive planning to be successful. After working with companies of all sizes, Modus has developed a process that brings product management, design, and engineering together. Collaboration Between UX, Product, and Engineering. Project Preparedness.
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