The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

When I introduced the notion of cross-functional, empowered product teams, the CEO said it was exactly what they needed and immediately created a task force with three VPs to lead the change: the VP of Product, the VP of Engineering, and the VP of HR. It’s important to look beyond surface-level divisions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Primarily, TPMs work extensively with the engineering teams in their organization. She's currently a Senior TPM at WeWork and has previously held Senior TPM positions at Facebook(Instagram) and provided consulting to MIO Partners.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In his college days, Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom, would regularly take Zoom is an excellent example of what it looks like to build a user-centric product that directly tackles a widespread need. However, the idea for a cloud-based conferencing tool sat idle for over a decade while Eric worked as Cisco’s Corporate VP of Engineering.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Engineering managers are expected to play a role in higher-level decision-making or cross-functional collaboration in their companies. Freelance or Contractor Finally, software engineers can also choose to go the way of freelancers or contract workers. For example, you will likely stop writing code yourself at this stage.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Ask any software engineer and they can probably relate to dealing with pushy recruiters that had no idea what software development roles they were trying to fill. This can be amusing if, for example, a recruiter was reaching out to you about a web developer position despite being, let's say, a DevOps engineer.

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

See the example from LinkedIn below. Sean estimated the project would take 30 days when he assigned it to the VP of Engineering. But he made sure to consult the VP before locking anything down. The VP suggest that 6 weeks was more realistic and there’s no way he could do it in 30 days.

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