Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2020

When all the ideas come from the management/leadership and not from the team building and managing the project. For a lot of organizations, the whole idea of the product comes from the leadership and not from every team member. I played the telephone game in a group of 10 friends some time ago. Are you ready?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. Kathy Pham, Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank broadly: a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals. How do you find the ‘Pecking Order’? What does ‘Pecking Order’ has to do with Scrum Teams?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

Organizations are nothing but groups of people who work with each other based on certain implicit or explicit agreements. For proof, just discuss social issues, politics, or Agile with a random group of programmers. Relationships change people. These agreements color the experience and relationships of the people working together.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

According to the 280 Group , product managers with the right tools, credentials, and knowledge increase company profits by as much as 28%. Having a deeper technical knowledge of managing technical products will also help you communicate with the software engineers and other technical folks on the project.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team. Share Leadership and Credit. One of the ways product managers damage relationships with engineers is by not sharing the credit. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Conclusion.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media & entertainment, retail and financial services. Loving – and hating – Jira and Confluence.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Consider a Thai software engineer who got offended by a Russian-American engineer’s comment on his pull request and then refused to work with him ever again. 2: Abandon Leadership Colonialism. You will have to work with them as a group on establishing a set of shared communication patterns and culture-agnostic work rules.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Closer Look at the Types of Engineering Management Interview Questions As you can see from our top 30 list, EM interviews fall into two broad categories: behavioral and technical. However, there are many sub-categories within these groups you should have a solid grasp on before your EM interview. It takes leadership skills.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 4, 2020

They also clue your interviewer into how you think, and if you demonstrate something called "Leadership Principles," something we’ll explain in more detail later in this article. The STAR Method Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com / Unsplash Under the 'Bias for Action' leadership principle, Bezos claims that "speed matters in business."

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Higher-level graduate degrees may be nice to have, but are not required for engineering management. EM resumes will need to show at least 3-5 years of engineering and leadership experience. Contact Information Building an Engineering Manager's resume may feel like an intimidating task. Quantify both as much as possible.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When everyone on the team shares this foundational understanding of our personas, everyone can feel empowered to make decisions without explicit sign-off from myself or leadership, which allows us to move faster. This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 17, 2023

You may also be thinking, “But Steve Jobs said he didn’t talk to customers, and Apple created some of the coolest products out there under his leadership.” Software engineers working with blockchain. Additionally, LinkedIn Groups can also be a good source of interview candidates. Other online affinity groups and forums.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

My male colleagues and male friends who are software engineers have expressed this concern to me that they don’t feel welcome if there’s a Women in Tech event or something like that. So, it’s not necessarily coming from inside her – it could be coming from her surroundings as well.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. the next morning. I wish it were that good.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. I’m trying to imagine that as a group of people.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

The typical salary for a DevOps engineer is $116,657/year. The Network Administrator Path to Cloud Architect Besides a start in software engineering, the other typical career start for a cloud architect is first working as a network or systems administrator. Cloud technology, by its nature, relies entirely on networking tech.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

Ria Sankar is a Group Product Manager leading Product Management & Data Science for AI for Good initiatives within Microsoft. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning How do you see your groups charter as serving the mission of Microsoft? I see your Software Engineering experience as a HUGE asset ?—?always

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The fundamental difference between OSS and proprietary software is the availability of the source code , but at what price? Software engineers globally volunteer their valuable time and experience to make their software available to the world. Enterprises want to be confident about the leadership and the ability to scale.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Saas PMs are a key customer group, and consistently offer us very valuable insights to improve our product. Specifying to the software engineering and design team what needs to be done in order to release the next iteration on time. Dynamic Leadership Qualities 7. Dynamic Leadership Qualities.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love Inspiration, tools and techniques, and practical help Marty Cagan founded Silicon Valley Product Group to help and inspire other PMs, condensing years of experience into this book. All age groups and industries are covered, ‘leaving no stone unturned’ as the author likes to put it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This program is a developmental opportunity designed for first and second-year undergraduate students with an ambition for engineering careers. A big focus of the internship program is giving opportunities to those students from historically underrepresented groups in the field.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

And making it into that select group will take a careful, tactical, well-practiced approach to interviewing. This includes product management , software engineering , product marketing , and other key Google hires. Leadership Google hires for emergent leadership character traits. Will you fit in?

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Prior to joining Sequent Learning Networks as Vice President, JJ spent 18 years in various leadership roles in the financial services, telecommunications, and healthcare industries for companies such as First Data, T-Mobile and American Hospital Association. Product managers must understand how all of these groups work together.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. She works with executives worldwide, advising them on product strategy and leadership. Watts is also a TEDx speaker and author of several best-selling books including Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership. Versatile leadership style.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Some of these roles include software engineering, product design, data analysts, sales, marketing, and customer support. Product Leader - Group & Principal Product Managers Responsibilities and Skills Product leaders, known as group or principal product managers, act as the authoritative owner of their product.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

In brief, Spotify was growing rapidly and introduced some new ways of working incorporating team groups they called squads and tribes that acted as autonomous mini-startups with a range of skillsets and mini-CEOs. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Localization is a very detailed art of adapting software and interfaces for specific regions, locales, cultures, and languages allowing users to better connect to your product. Shawna possessed the nuance of understanding localization, but she also learned desktop publishing, file editing, and gained significant software engineering exposure.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The third group are the talented product builders all around us. On the one hand, you might think this is a good thing. ” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers.

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