Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process. Who reviews my code?” “How

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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. And it’s really thinking about the quality of the code in that area. What’s the right way to do this in your company?

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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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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A  A very big difference.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? 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. This, too, can influence the potential career trajectory of a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. This exposure to different cultures, generations, and belief systems has shaped my understanding of what true cross-functional collaboration looks like. Challenge #2: Leadership versus Decision-Maker ?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. And even these very, very experienced leadership rooms are mind blown by the idea that maybe offering their advice or perspective is not the most helpful thing for somebody. Leadership hats. And the book was born. ” Lara: Absolutely.

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Bain Public

JUNE 11, 2019

In order to get the job done properly and efficiently, product managers deserve the proper software, tools and resources needed to create and execute successful products. Is a highly customizable product, covering all aspects of project and product management as well as offering a system suitable for large product teams.

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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. I had a strong tech background, so I wanted to dive into the business and design side of product management and hone my leadership skills.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2023

As a new generation of leader and one of the few women of colour managing engineers and designers, she made a diligent study of innovative leadership methods. Whitney also enjoys actively investing in tiny house communities, building software systems that power short-term vacation rentals.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Due to the essential nature of security engineering, the interviews for security engineers can be some of the most challenging in technical interviews. We often recommend looking up your interviewer on LinkedIn to understand them a bit better, and reviewing public vision documents produced by the company. Watch our answer here.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Netflix does not have a structured performance review system; instead it relies on ongoing conversations and the annual 360 feedback process. Operating a company with informal performance reviews and limited planning processes requires competent, driven, and trustworthy individuals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2018

Gate systems have long been a way to control that risk, and have been implemented successfully in many industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to software to manufacturing. What is a Gate System? Why use a Gate System? Strategic area of interest (determined by senior leadership). Entering Stars.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One  But if we see this as a systemic problem, it can be less about individuals.  More

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Product Talk

APRIL 19, 2023

Whether you’re trying to keep track of everything you learn about your customers during continuous discovery , keep tabs on the latest thought leadership and learnings from others in the industry, or keep on top of all the newest products on the market, you can quickly get overwhelmed. The world of digital products is evolving quickly.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How is SaaS Product Management the Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth? Specifying to the software engineering and design team what needs to be done in order to release the next iteration on time. How is SaaS Product Management the Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth? Dynamic Leadership Qualities 7.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article. Imagine you scan a QR code with your smartphone, and it takes 10 seconds to return a result. The restaurant might gravitate to a different offering if you cannot connect with its existing systems.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. the true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. and I’m happy to share my 2021 read-list with my conclusions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as the Harvard Business Review points out, this rush can be dangerous. For instance, consider a software company established in the market with a leading product in its category. It might be a new feature in software that has flaws or a service that promises a lot and delivers little. The consequence?

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. He wrote the first line of code at Greenhouse in May 2012, and he’s still there — over a decade later. Mike has a unique career as an engineering leader. You can follow Mike on Twitter at @mboufford.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How adopting DevSecOps practices, including network segmentation, testing for known vulnerabilities, and implementing artifact and code signing, can help organizations reduce the impact of supply chain vulnerabilities such as those introduced by Log4j? Call the module into your source code. Create and use the logger in your code.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

A technical program manager differs from a product manager because technical program managers work more closely with the software development teams. It is an excellent role for those interested in software who want to lead, manage, or use their creative skills. Or, you can also link to certificates of online courses that you got.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

What does leadership entail in the context of design? How does an organization benefit from strong design leadership? In most cases, however, we are only expected to deliver proven and tested design assets to developers in the form of a design system and sophisticated user flows. Listen first. Find purpose.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. That report goes to the top-level leadership. You pipe your feedback into one system that is your record for customer feedback. Our system produces weekly reports. 4:22] What does that manual process typically look like? .”

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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 bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. But the problem facing a particular customer may or may not represent a true systemic need.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors. This includes reviewing invoices, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that all parties are happy.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This includes laptops, tablets, phones, and software tools; but it may also include having access to a kitchen and a coffee machine. This includes sprint planning , Daily Scrum , sprint review , and sprint retrospective , as well as product strategy and product roadmap workshops. Meetings : Prepare and facilitate meetings.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Siloed transformation efforts at the team level can result in suboptimal outcomes and fail to address systemic issues that hinder agility at the organizational level. Gain Leadership Support : Agile Transformation is as much about culture as it is about processes. Learn how we can help!

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. Tweet This.

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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.

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

A few dead flags in your code base are annoying and add unneeded complexity, but the more you have, the more this risk compounds. So, at a previous company, we decided to fix the problem by putting a hard limit on the number of feature flags in the system: we could only have 150 flags in our monolith at any given time.

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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.) Training alone is insufficient.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

This includes product management , software engineering , product marketing , and other key Google hires. You may be asked to solve coding problems on-the-spot depending on the role. Technical applicants are usually asked to solve coding problems over the phone. Technical rounds include coding and system design.

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