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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. Don’t forget Tech debt and bugs.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For instance, think of the tech giant, Microsoft. A few years ago, the company faced significant challenges due to role overlap. Technological evolution: New tools and systems can create confusion about responsibilities, especially when there’s an overlap of functions. Role dysfunction isn’t just a sophisticated term.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific. Feeling overwhelmed? Have no fear!

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. • Sendbird —The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. The company values transparency and open communication from everyone, including leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 4, 2022

Technology gets old. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. I hand-crafted the HTML, possibly in PageMill or whatever we used for our sites back then. ” I had to hire someone to move my Blogger blog and HTML site from old technology to new technology.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn.  Customers and support teams often identify things that don’t work the way they like… tagged as bugs even if the system is behaving as intended.  Product

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2018

While product managers have a variety of techniques to cope with this ambiguity, from the Mind the Product slack channel to thunderdome-like meetings, one powerful solution is product review. This is a formal review of the product’s progress by senior product managers in order to assess the status and suggest avenues to explore.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. Over the years, she worked in jobs such as Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, growing emerging tech leaders, demystifying public speaking , and championing engineering management. And the book was born.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some of my Modern Management Made Easy technical reviewers wonder. Those people suffered from several problems—most of which was based on the system of rewards in the organization (part of the context): Because of their power, they were “on the hook” to deliver something we could not deliver.

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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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tim, the Engineering VP, was worried he would lose people after their reviews and salary changes. However, our systems of paying for “individual” performance demand that we try. It's not, but that's a different leadership tip.) This is a part of the series of leadership tips. That's incongruent. You can't be.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

And although 69% of respondents say that personalized support experiences are the key to building strong customer relationships, less than half believe that they can deliver those personalized support experiences at scale with their current tech stack. Download your copy of the thought leadership paper now. Sound familiar?

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

Without dependable deployment processes, teams face greater technical debt, production issues and risk of downtime, and delays in unlocking business value from code. With established release review procedures, code progresses to staging and production only after passing predefined quality checks and acceptance tests.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. 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. How frustrating would that be?

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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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Agile Velocity

APRIL 16, 2020

Leadership Skills that focus on “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. Great Leadership Skills. We share below a few leadership skills that leaders can experiment with towards these outcomes. Organization: building plans, creating systems and structures to work effectively, and use their energy efficiently.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as the Harvard Business Review points out, this rush can be dangerous. To mitigate these concerns, the leadership decides to launch a small reconnaissance boat — an agile vessel equipped with the essentials to explore these mysterious waters. The temptation to seek quick validations, to speed up the process, is significant.

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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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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 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. First Round’s The Review.

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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. While Human API is a discovery-friendly company, the tech lead and designer hadn’t done this type of discovery work before. The next layer is the company’s leadership.

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Pranav Khare

JANUARY 7, 2024

Once upon a time, in the bustling world of tech, there was a great divide. Despite the team’s reservations about the technical complexity and tight deadlines, Bob pushes ahead without seeking their input. With no further explanation, the team built a chatbot, only to find Alice had expected a personalized content recommendation system.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

. “Intercom’s entire software delivery system is built on the ability to move fast…We decided that now is not the time to experiment with slower ways of shipping” Shipping is our heartbeat , and we’ve built up a solid system to get software safely and quickly to production. The value of the familiar.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How is SaaS Product Management the Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth? Whether it is the technical feasibility of a particular feature or marketing promotions, it can be difficult to make it clear to all colleagues why one approach, product, feature, or initiative is better than another. Dynamic Leadership Qualities 7.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

The recruiter will ask questions about your work background, ask behavioral interview questions, and get into some technical questions. Technical applicants are usually asked to solve coding problems over the phone. Non-technical applicants get more targeted questions on behavior, potential situations, and role-relevant case studies.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

Innovative technology is the solution. But technology is also a challenge, as too many tools are inefficient and too few tools are incomplete. This combination of technologies can serve as the intelligent real-time brain guiding your digital nervous system so you can compete more effectively in today’s digital business world.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When it relates to your design career you will be ask to not only sell or persuade people on your skills, your ideas and leadership. Xiaoxue Zhang , Uber Currently working at Uber, focusing on Machine Learning and Design System. Xiaoxue Zhang , Uber Currently working at Uber, focusing on Machine Learning and Design System.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Change Management: Managing change, especially at a larger scale, can be complex in a hybrid environment due to the varied pace of adaptation among teams. Coaching at all levels – team, team of teams, and leadership – will help nurture the behavior changes and knowledge transfer needed to sustain change.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Different workplace broadcast systems have different ways to manage email notifications, which you can suss out on your own. This allows you to stay on top of two primary channels: email and Workplace chat or Slack. In addition, you will need to pick up fires as they arise. I use this table to assess all of my work on a weekly basis.

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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. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects. Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. I find such an attitude ironic as technology is always changing. Looking to technology trends, Chris Dixon reminds us of the power of collaboration.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Many other tech companies organize themselves in this way, including Spotify , Atlassian , and Airbnb. Worked with support leadership to develop a weekly support call between product managers + support team leaders to triage support tickets. Technical program management. What Product Managers do. What Product Operations is not.

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