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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

Without input from a product manager, a designer, and an engineer, it’s difficult for us to account for the cross-functional perspectives we need to build successful products. However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers. Which engineers should participate in trios?

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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Below, well unpack his real-world advice on making acquisitions work, retaining your best people, and aligning tech stacks for a post-merger world that actually innovates.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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A Practical Prioritization Approach for Technical Debt

The Product Coalition

Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. Before we get to the approach, lets look at the two different types of Technical debts that may come your way. The ‘Deliberate Tech Debts’ Imagine a scenario?—?‘You Copyright?—?Dilbert.com

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This includes Tech estimates (at least T-shirt sizing) and resources identified for the projects. Hard Skills Required for the Role.