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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

ProductPlan

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

doesn’t change the fact that 275 of them will never make it into the product development queue. So each product manager will now spend 1120+ hours/week thoughtfully reviewing and prioritizing and responding to incoming requests.   I’m part of an angel network that invests in early-stage startups.  The

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When You Need an Interim CFO vs. a Part-time CFO

The Product Coalition

If you run a startup or a small- to mid-size company, you probably can’t justify hiring a full-time chief financial officer (an oft-cited benchmark for when to hire a full-time CFO is annual sales of at least $10 million, but it can be a lot higher for a low-complexity business).

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Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 1

Product Talk

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.