PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems. features.  Commitments

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Regularly testing and monitoring your systems for vulnerabilities. Social Engineering. Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Keeping operating systems and software up to date.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. Let’s review the three key types of outsourcing arrangements and what the differences among them mean to you as a customer. Besides the well-known issues associated with software vendors?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 23, 2021

Orienting to value – every team, every person does it differently. How Teams Orient to Value. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of teams, helping them improve their ability to create value. All of these teams believe the work they are doing is valuable. It oversimplifies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It will take a lot of your time to review and assess every company’s website manually. He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 To be at an advantage when fixing bugs, a lot depends on how the software team is structured, and how the code is written: Have proper documentation. trillion in 2020.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Development teams usually create a list of guidelines known as coding conventions. That’s why improving your code quality is necessary.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 15, 2019

One of the most difficult parts of software architecture is quality assurance planning. Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder said “If you think a good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.” Poor development and testing workflows will result in slow progress, high costs and an unusable product. Components of a QA plan.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” ” “Our Silver package is the best fit for mid-sized manufacturers using these two CAD/CAM systems…”) Sales teams love when we point them toward the right customers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 29, 2022

Companies increasingly use Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help screen resumes. ATS is a kind of automated software that scans your resumes for keywords. Remember that great data science resumes are easily scannable by those reviewing them. I strive to grow a team of data professionals and help them achieve their potential.

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Usersnap

APRIL 25, 2019

Countless times projects progress so slowly only due to poor ticket management. If you are using Usersnap, your team, clients or customers definitely are submitting more bug reports due to the convenience of capturing screens and annotating in-product. This could then be used as a development roadmap.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Engineering has to build it. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. This is very tactical in nature and the focus here should be on maximizing value delivery (not velocity) of the engineering team. Sales has to sell it.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple. Unsubscribe anytime. Transcript.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

Alex Yang // VP of Engineering, Simprints. In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back. Before we start talking about the product backlog anti-patterns, I would like to make a small detour to make you familiar with my mental model, how agile software development works. That’s my world. From the product backlog to sprint backlog.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2023

Which is the superior tool for developing interactive user guides – Whatfix or Apty? Or is there a more powerful in-app onboarding software that aligns better with your needs? It can be difficult to choose the best tool with so many alternatives available on review sites. Pros of Whatfix? Here are its pros.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As Mark alluded to I recently started another company called Ropig in the developer tool space but it’s brand new and I don’t really have any lessons learned yet so I’ll focus today’s talk on MeetEdgar. So we don’t have a sales team. We lost some of our functionality as a tool due to API changes.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As Mark alluded to I recently started another company called Ropig in the developer tool space but it’s brand new and I don’t really have any lessons learned yet so I’ll focus today’s talk on MeetEdgar. So we don’t have a sales team. We lost some of our functionality as a tool due to API changes.

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