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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

When running brainstorming sessions, Ellen found that engineers in particular were quick to jump to feasibility concerns. The back-end platform already supported the ability for direct messaging, so there was very little technical feasibility we had to worry about—the interface and user experience were the main challenges.”

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How Segment avoids user onboarding drag for its technical product

Mixpanel

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. Many companies now have fewer engineering resources, making it harder to get engineer buy-in. Measure the value of it.

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Bain Public will lead an expert product workshop in collaboration with Centech's acceleration program

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on September 16th, 2021 in collaboration with Centech: a world-class business incubator based in Montreal, Canada. Centech is dedicated to high-tech (deeptech) companies with high growth potential.

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The Top 8 Tech Companies to Intern at in 2022

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. Together, they contribute to the technical or business projects currently underway.

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Edmond Lau and Jean Hsu on engineering more leaders and better working relationships

Intercom, Inc.

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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New Course: Mastering Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Product + Engineering Programs : Technical Strategy , Scaling Product Delivery.

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy.

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