PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Unfortunately, engineering manager interviews can often be quite opaque - EM interview questions can range a wide spectrum, and it's usually unclear what good preparation looks like. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players!

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. I have been in countless conversations where people argue incessantly about the definition of agile, PO vs PM, how the customers in their industry just don’t get it, and what actually constitutes good software engineering practices.

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Split

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As software engineers at cloud companies we have it a bit easier. However, there are some lessons we can draw from the Samsung example to help us improve software delivery. #1 Anyone on the team, from PMs to SREs, can target a whitelist, segment, or percentage of customers when releasing new features.

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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

A production environment in software development is the final stage where applications meet end-users. This environment plays a pivotal role in delivering new features, shaping the user experience, and driving the success of any software product. This gives clarity on this vital aspect of software development.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. It is a cyclic process consisting of two major steps: Coding and Fixing.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

In IT outsourcing, software service providers often introduce the role of Proxy Product Owner (PPO) to compensate for the lack of product leadership. It only seems natural to want to help the client to move forward with product development and keep the engineering busy implementing the defined requirements.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Unpredictability of Releasing Software. Without the right approach and tools, software developers are left crossing their fingers, hoping their rollouts won’t end with a crash. Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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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 HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. The Ukrainian engineer has lived in Japan since he was six, an experience which has made him bi-cultural.

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nulab

AUGUST 6, 2021

Software development is a similar story. You might be working on one app or website, but as new features come in and customer requirements change, dev teams often find themselves working on a shifting product. This is where software architecture diagrams can be a big help. What is an architecture diagram? Image Source.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

To avoid this fate, companies and their engineers can leverage a number of proactive and reactive data validation techniques. By definition, reactive data validation takes place after the fact and uses anomaly detection to identify any issues your data may have, and to help ease the symptoms of bad data.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

The Engineering Process. Let’s look at the engineering process. Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Shortly before the official launch party, one nervous engineer decided it might be worth doing a few integration and acceptance tests on the ship.

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Usersnap

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re new to the bug tracking system, issue management or web development in general, you might wonder what a bug report is. For example, I’ve shown you 6 easy bug reporting tricks , answered the 4 W’s of bug reporting and gave you some insights on bad bug reports. And trust me, it’s not going to be boring.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. It’s the stuff that your engineering team has since learned could have been done a lot better. It’s the outdated software versions and overly-monolithic stacks that comprise our software. How extensible does your product need to be?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board. Designers, engineers, and marketing teams all rely on cooperation to get the job done. PMs lead the way on what to build and why.

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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. Embrace coding conventions. Adopt continuous integration.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Seeing things in practice.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Because let’s face it, when you start to build a piece of software or a big feature you can’t easily decompose, you can never really say with any certainty how long it will take. By the time you’ve done enough to be certain, you might as well have spent your time building the software. Agile vs Waterfall. The Best of Both Worlds.

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Userpilot

JULY 11, 2022

It doesn’t matter how great your product is, if your customer support is bad, your customers will leave! In this article, we’ll be sharing 10 golden rules of customer service that will help your support team develop quality support and exceed customer expectations. 10 golden rules of excellent customer service.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

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. Successful solutions architects and solutions engineers have a highly valuable skillset with a mixture of technical knowledge, communication skills, and B2B sales expertise.

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