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. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer. The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery: A Quick Recap Back in the ’90s, a lot of times these decisions came from executives, from business stakeholders, and we treated our engineers like they were IT order-takers.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

At the end of the project, we might do some validation research to validate the design (through usability testing) or the final delivery (through A/B testing ). They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. The Need for Continuous Discovery. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

How can you get your engineer to participate in your product trio? Most product trios are comprised of a product manager, a designer, and an engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. The engineers start building.

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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. Some with quite a bit of outrage. This concept is not new.

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

This probably wasn’t intentional discrimination, but the creators likely tested with “typical” users, in “typical” contexts for that team, and overlooked underrepresented folks. Or should we be looking for more “atypical” stories so that we don’t contribute to these inequities?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements , handed them off to a designer, who then created designs, and then the requirements and the designs were handed off to engineers to implement. With each hand-off, we lost context and nuance. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another. You’ve guessed it; the Software Engineers.

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Split

MAY 19, 2020

Did you know that passenger jets can fly without all their engines? They’re designed with resilience in mind and can keep flying quite safely if an engine fails. As software engineers we also want to make resilient systems, avoiding single points of failure that could take down the entire system. Enter the Chaos Monkey.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. A feedback-driven example of beta testing.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

It will also allow you to test assumptions through experiments and potential beta testing (even if this is just as simple as wireframe prototype you have some users to engage with). Terri is the Product Manager at Wetu, a rapidly expanding software provider to the travel industry. About Terri Boshoff.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Do they usability test their API? When I searched the web trying to find an alternative, I ran across this question and answer in the Zapier community forums where an engineer describes a convoluted hack to get around the problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. It’s hard to balance investment optimally across ML, product, engineering, and design. You might easily be over-engineering your solution or solving slightly the wrong problem. We can’t just build for the good path.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

If you're a software engineer interested in joining the booming fintech industry, you have undoubtedly heard of two of the current fintech giants: Coinbase and Robinhood. Both companies are actively hiring new engineers at the moment, but which should you choose? Let's get to it! What is Coinbase?

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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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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Below the solution space are assumption tests. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The team had approached Carnegie Mellon University and its MSPM program in the spring looking to recruit not a computer software engineer or robotics expert, but rather a product design-oriented business student. “At As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is no secret that software engineering interviews are rigorous and extensive today. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 26, 2020

There’s nothing to be nervous about once you’re confident in your skills and knowledgeable about the normal software engineering interview questions. This article will start by talking a little about the procedure of most software engineering interviews. For years, he used his off-time to learn about software engineering.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

Intro Software engineering can be an incredibly rewarding career. But without the right preparation, it can be difficult to get the software engineering job you have in mind. I learned this, as I was taking computer science courses in college to land a software engineering (SWE) role. Tell me about yourself.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

How can growth engineering help you take your marketing up a notch? This is where growth engineering comes in handy. In this article, we will be discussing everything you need to know about the growth engineering framework and its processes. Technical skills are highly desirable but not mandatory for growth engineers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Software Engineering jobs are among the most in-demand and highest-paying jobs on the labor market today. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that software engineering jobs will grow by 22% in this next decade. Here is our list of the top 30 software engineering interview questions you will likely experience.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They interview customers , run usability tests, and conduct A/B tests. Hypothesis Testing. I want to be clear, when I say product teams, I mean the product manager, the designers, and the software engineers. And you can use the other half to test a couple prototypes. And they aren’t wrong. UserTesting.com.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

It involves testing requirements during the development process until the project is completed. This testing phase is critical that allows the software development company to move on to the next lifecycle stages. This allows software developers to process speedily while keeping the best quality standards.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P Brooks, Jr.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Based on the information she provided, she tasked the participants with creating opportunity solution trees, drawing experience maps, enriching their trees with opportunities and solutions, and mapping assumptions to test. For example, in a field test with users, they saw that there was some confusion with icons in their product.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. Many teams hit a snag when it was time to test assumptions. They’d get bogged down for weeks trying to run a single assumption test. Continuing to Test and Iterate as I Wrote the Book.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

For example, an engineer might base their solutions on first principles from physics. Surface and Test Underlying Assumptions. Whether you were inspired to experiment by The Lean Startup or if design thinking has convinced you to prototype your way to solutions, both encourage you to test your assumptions, not your ideas.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

At first, he thought Elon was testing him. Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Little incremental changes are often inexpensive.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Apptimize, An Airship Company, helps brands rapidly iterate to make amazing user experiences across all their digital channels through A/B Testing and Feature Release Management with a mobile-first lens. Quantum Metric. Quantum Metric helps organizations build better digital products faster.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

During his career he has performed most of the roles that are key to any technology company: product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2021

While many of them are pretty straightforward, there are also other software engineering vocations which are situated, so to speak, on the edge. If you’ve already decided to learn Java, we should talk about such software engineering jobs as a Java Full Stack developer. Who Is a Java Full Stack Developer?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

Do not bail on cybersecurity testing With the growing complexity of eCommerce apps , a notable increase in functionality, as well as their high level of personalization, it’s essential to have regular security monitoring, as it’s a must for enabling customer data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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