Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. A cross-functional team at FutureLearn.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

If you're a software engineer interested in joining the booming fintech industry, you have undoubtedly heard of two of the current fintech giants: Coinbase and Robinhood. Both companies are actively hiring new engineers at the moment, but which should you choose? Let's get to it! What is Coinbase?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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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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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Product leadership coach Petra Wille became fascinated with the idea of Communities of Practice because in her experience, they were the differentiating factor between companies that had successful product orgs and those that didn’t. In learning and development circles, this type of community is known as a “Community of Practice.”

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. He has more than 20 years of experience creating and delivering software solutions that impact people’s lives. And it’s CMU.”.

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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. Are you ready? This is a fragile system. The best ideas could come from the least expected mind.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Held in conjunction with DeveloperWeek, which annually attracts 8,000 software engineers and IT managers, this event is a prime gathering spot for technology professionals.C The conference offers an interactive educational experience, including practical advice for product leadership.

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Modus Create

JUNE 3, 2022

We are excited to announce that Modus Create has acquired Tweag, a software engineering company providing high levels of software assurance to its clients in the fintech, biopharma, and autonomous vehicle space. The post Modus Create Acquires European Software Engineering Firm Tweag appeared first on Modus Create.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Bug prevention: these steps help the IT engineers to defects and keep bugs out of the software ecosystem, and minimize failures, and produce the highest quality of software. Security testing: Identify threats in the system that software engineers check and keep the data to stay confidential.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 12, 2022

Product is the sort of leadership role that can pull the right team together and get them moving in the right direction. I learned cross-functional leadership from my first boss in Product, John Wang, who went on to be CMO of HTC. How did you learn leadership? How do you learn to be a leader? But how do you get those skills?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s also not a natural progression from a specific academic discipline such as a career in law, medicine, or software engineering and a lack of opportunities begets a lack of candidates. Often the most promising students are those who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, or entrepreneurship.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. Listen to our podcast here, or read the transcription below!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2025

📖 Interested in preparing more in-depth for a role as a software engineer? Study with Exponent’s Software Engineering Interviews course. Product management  The product management interview at Discord includes five rounds: data, design sense, product sense, leadership, and a case study.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. Loving – and hating – Jira and Confluence. Links mentioned in this episode. – US / UK / DE. Follow Joff on Twitter. – US / UK / DE.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Dominance in chickens is asserted by various behaviors, including pecking, which was used by Schjelderup-Ebbe as a measure of dominance and leadership order. Most of the Software engineers (if not all) are relatively quiet and don’t promote or create visibility for them through their social interactions.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The company values transparency and open communication from everyone, including leadership. This includes reflections on challenges, problems to solve, and what is top of mind for the leadership team. Leaders practice transparency by taking notes in meetings and sharing those notes with the whole organization.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time. Make sure your platform teams include a mix of software engineers, operations engineers, and product managers. Often, new managers expect to have the same level of freedom—or more—as they did in their specialist days.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When Petra Wille was in her first job, working as a software engineer for Burda Media , she visited Hamburg for a work project and promised herself she would live in the city one day. “I The format is the same as last year, with the day of the conference preceded by a one-day product leadership event, and another day of workshops.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group. Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

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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. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery? Petra: Yes, okay.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. Strong team leadership: 5+ years of direct PM management experience. Image] Who would be the best fit for this job?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Marketing, Sales, Tech, Design, Business, Data, and Leadership.) We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Someone who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence senior leadership through data-driven insights. Experience in influencing senior leadership through data-driven insights. An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 2, 2025

Then, create a story bank of anecdotes from past roles that demonstrate various values you share and skills of yours, such as collaboration, leadership, and learning from challenges.   📖 Interested in preparing more in-depth for a role as a software engineer? Know Salesforce inside and out.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

It got me thinking about how when companies first started adopting Agile methodologies on their software engineering teams, they quickly ran into obstacles with the rest of the organization. Your executive leadership team might be focused on reducing costs. Increase attendance to team charter trainings. Improve productivity.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Previously, he started his career as a software engineer in embedded systems and moved to application software before venturing into Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

Think of software engineers within a company starting to recommend the version control tool they enjoy using the most or customer success members vouching for a new CRM (customer relationship management) tool. With product-led growth, the end-user becomes the product’s adopter and number one advocate.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

I started talking to product managers, designers, software engineers, user researchers, all sorts of folks, and I just started to learn about what’s keeping them from putting the habits into practice. The messy middle is when your organization, your leadership team has said, “Let’s work this way.”

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