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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Engineering managers are expected to play a role in higher-level decision-making or cross-functional collaboration in their companies. This is especially true as you move up into management. Freelance or Contractor Finally, software engineers can also choose to go the way of freelancers or contract workers.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

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. a 10-hour train ride (each way) to visit his girlfriend. Designing a beautiful product is only one part of the puzzle.