Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product. Sharpen your data collection and analytical skills.

Startups 52

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. There are established frameworks, approaches, best practices, and schools of thought that anyone seeking a career in this field needs to be familiar with.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works. For starters, having sound knowledge of technical product development will make it easier for you to plan with software engineers.

Startups 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

How to Answer Product Design Questions While we do not recommend heavily relying on one particular framework when answering PM questions, they can help establish an initial structure for your answer. One that we find very helpful is the broad, then deep framework. For more information be sure to watch our video on the product vision.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. You need a range of disciplines to bring a new product to life: Product development team: Your software engineers play an important role.

User Testing 105

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Speaking of communicating with the product team, you should also make it a point to periodically update relevant parties about changes made in underlying frameworks and implementation details that may impact the integrity of analytics event tracking. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward. They need to shift their focus to leveraging teams to execute their vision and it is up to you to help with this transition. Start at the Top. In most companies, this process is ongoing.

Product Research 151

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. As a product leader, you may be involved in defining the purpose of your company, or be responsible for the vision for the product, or it may even be something that is already set. What is your role? The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

which is basically the subset of skills that a Senior/Lead Software Engineer would have that are highly relevant to a PM role. A focus on soliciting feedback and gaining “buy-in” from the engineering team on the product vision, roadmap, and specific implementations. This should take 2 weeks if you really rush through.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5. Over the course of our conversations, we were pointed to several measurement frameworks for finding product-market fit, with differences depending on the product category, and industry. Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities for creating value. Key learnings.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But I occasionally dabbled in other passion areas of mine, including career optimization, life hacks, and software engineering. I ended up putting together a deck with over 70 slides providing a comprehensive overview of each of the core dimensions of product management: vision, strategy, design, and execution.

User Testing 69

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Shape your product vision into foreseeable goals, each one a step towards fulfilling that big vision. About the author – June Kim June is a software engineer and has worked with different companies, from small startups to tech giants like Google. Use your product as a channel to express your values.

Customer Experience 105

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? What is the STAR Framework?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Part of this requires having a solid product vision. Keeping this product vision in the back of your mind while iterating on product strategy keeps you closer to being on the right track. Specifying to the software engineering and design team what needs to be done in order to release the next iteration on time.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

A product management consultant acts as a coach and a mentor to their clients, providing the frameworks that guide them toward developing the roadmap and making the best product decisions. Description: "TWG is a world-class team of 100+ product managers, designers, and software engineers, located in downtown Toronto.

Leadership 52

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the past few years, I've been building Exponent, which is a company dedicated to help people break into tech career fields including Product Management and Software Engineering, and I have grown this company to now partner with top-tier MBA schools like Stanford and Yale. Lastly, do your homework. They don’t listen!

Product Management 64

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

You might also have heard that it comes under the umbrella of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and is sometimes referred to in software engineering as version control. This gives the product team a skewed vision of the customer journey. That might sound relatively simple, but there’s much, much more to it than that!

Data Visualization 89

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the past few years, I've been building Exponent, which is a company dedicated to help people break into tech career fields including Product Management and Software Engineering, and I have grown this company to now partner with top-tier MBA schools like Stanford and Yale. Lastly, do your homework. They don’t listen!

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Its offices are located in different countries, including the UK, US, and Germany for sales operations and Ukraine, Russia, Belarus for skilled software engineering teams. . The company’s core services include software and mobile development, blockchain solutions, testing, and quality assurance.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most of the young PMs in India either become a PM after their MBA (majority of the population) or after being a software engineer for a couple of years (seen often) or straight out of undergrad (path less traveled) or post-entrepreneurship (even less traveled). It is quintessential. Be it a product roadmap or their day-to-day tasks.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Whitney O’Banner (Software Engineering Manager, Medium) – Bottoms Up With OKRs from Business of Software Conference. It helps us align our shared vision for the team. I find the vision becomes a bit more ambiguous amongst the team and it’s not clear where everyone is going. Sketch Note.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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StubHub

AUGUST 8, 2019

The group of 20 is a diverse mix of college, grad school and PhD students who hail from a variety of disciplines: computer science, data science, business, software engineering, design, informatics, applied mathematics and economics. They soak up as much experience and wisdom as they can get throughout their three months at StubHub.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” Whitney O’Banner, Software Engineering Manager, Braintree. “‘ Focus In Action Is Great Leadership ‘ by Belinda Johnson White provided me with the most practical framework for developing as a leader in business.” Its a game changer for me.” Most influential book?

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