The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Product managers also have essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, empathy, collaboration, understanding customers, and strategic thinking. That said, this position demands proficiency in both technical and social areas within the role. This allows you to gain practice in using essential social skills.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

No software developer wakes up in the morning excited to write a bunch of code that will be re-written a few sprints later. They could be inspired by new technology, a new business model gaining traction, or a competitor’s differentiating capabilities. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Here's a list of questions we've seen most frequently asked at tech companies. Watch our answer here.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. A cloud architect is technically a subset of a solutions architect roles responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions to an organization's business problems. Curious about the Cloud Architect role?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Choose standard technology.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See  Or letting one big customer define our technical architecture.  Or  (See Teresa Torres’s bestselling product book.)

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Agile practices, like Scrum and Kanban, initially developed for software development, are now being embraced across all departments and functional areas including marketing, finance, and human resources. Changes in Leadership Behaviors and Mindsets: (I’ve saved the most powerful lever for last.)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. Typically you’ll interview for 3-5 hours total with a lunch break midway through.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

A leadership story of Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. You know, we’re in a technological age where we can be applying some tools to this.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on. While the Agile movement originated in software development, it has been applied to much more: from medical devices to spacecraft, as well as engineering, marketing, and education. From organizational silos to legacy technology.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data analytics professionals are typically comfortable with a wide range of technical programs and tech tools and are also skilled at coding. In addition to typical data scientist skills like database languages and Python, you'll also need to be passionate about helping non-technical teams understand your results.

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CardBoard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s got roles, it’s got sprints, it’s got a whole system. You plan it, you do it, and then you review it – all within a set timeframe. Kanban is a visual system for managing work as it moves through a process. Back in the 1940s, Toyota introduced a system to improve its manufacturing efficiency and flexibility.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. On-site On-site interviews also vary, but they follow a predictable structure.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. over a sustainable product development strategy. How do you deal with that?

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area. California is the home of technology and innovation. How Does Studio 22 Work With Clients?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The key leaders installed a validation process to review and approve the items sent to our Product team. Managers and senior leadership had greater visibility to the challenges faced by their team members in the field. Client support had a team member with a strong background in the technology and managing client programs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

In both situations, the incentive structure of an organization most likely still fosters a predictable behavior that contradicts the organization’s goals at a system level. The following list of Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns addresses Scrum events, system-related issues as well as issues of individual players.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Finding meeting notes is necessary for PMs who take many types of notes from different stakeholders like leadership, business development, engineering, design, to 1:1s, team meetings, and most importantly, user interviews. Their design system tools remove the need for version control of design files as they’re all in one place.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 29, 2022

Companies increasingly use Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to help screen resumes. ATS is a kind of automated software that scans your resumes for keywords. Remember that great data science resumes are easily scannable by those reviewing them. Like many technical roles, this part of the resume does hold significant weight.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Many data scientists are fresh from academia, with less general business experience than our core development teams. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We need a plan for human review of results and escalation to humans when outcomes seem incorrect.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. It it at the intersection of customer, tech, and business which means that everyone function in an organization is impacted by the product. Sales has to sell it. Marketing has to talk about it.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 29, 2020

The top two areas in organizations where Agile is prevalent is in software development (37% of respondents) and information technology (26%). With two-thirds of efforts in software or IT, there appears to be an opportunity to incorporate other parts of the organization. Rate of Adoption – A Decade(ish) Comparison.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Exploring Agility in Distributed Information Systems Development Teams: An Interpretive Study in an Offshoring Context. It has to do with the team members, the team culture, the technology, and the processes employed by the group. Summary Most studies I reviewed showed that there are hurdles to remote/distributed teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It stands to reason that they should have deep insights on what has value and what has less, probably more than a non-technical product manager who thinks they can understand the audience. It says: “organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”

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Centercode

AUGUST 27, 2019

Due in part to the speed of development, test automation, and artificial intelligence, a greater proportion of test management is now influenced or even controlled by developers. In particular, she focuses on the lost art of communication and its importance to surviving tectonic shifts in software development and testing.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Turn them into a [fill-in a ticket-system of your choice] monkey or deprive them of the ability to say ‘no’?—?as The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Both serve in leadership roles without yielding any authority.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. Are you a junior front end developer?

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