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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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Treat Your Product Team Like a Product

The Product Guy

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. Part of this process should be regular portfolio strategy reviews. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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A Practical Prioritization Approach for Technical Debt

The Product Coalition

“ Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. these are the debts created because of the mistakes the product team makes. In short?—?these

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5 code review best practices

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. In 1988, Hewlett Packard (HP) conducted an internal review of their software development processes and set a target to improve their code quality tenfold. Create a code review checklist. Introduce code review metrics.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.