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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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How tech workers really feel about work right now

Lenny Rachitsky

, we’re excited to share the results of our first-ever large-scale tech worker sentiment survey. It’s hard to imagine a more intense time to be working in technology, so Noam and I wanted to capture a rich picture of tech workers’ sentiment—at this moment, and going forward.

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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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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?”. Before we get to the approach, lets look at the two different types of Technical debts that may come your way. The ‘Deliberate Tech Debts’ Imagine a scenario?—?‘You Copyright?—?Dilbert.com

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.