Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I would never have thought that my role as a product engineer would include being a bit of an amateur historian. We make a living selling leaders and teams on what the future can look like, and then do our best to meet and exceed that vision. Technologists are, by our very nature, forward-looking optimists. The more I read about Web 3.0

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product engineers are experts at identifying, understanding and solving problems. Here are the five areas that we encourage product engineers to contribute to as they seek to maximize their impact. But we’re even prouder of engineers who build great products and then share that knowledge with the world. Being a brand ambassador.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2019

A clear product vision helps making decisions so your product ends up where you want it to be. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”?— Jonathan Swift Every product starts with a vision. Yet if you ask a Product Manager to explain the concept of ‘product vision’, it will often result in a blank stare.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Known for crafting a strong, unified vision, Ebi empowers her teams to achieve outsized outcomes.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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Pranav Khare

JANUARY 7, 2024

On one side, the engineers — the wizards of code, masters of the digital realm. Often at odds, but here’s the twist — it’s not the role of PMs that engineers despise; they just despise the approach of some PMs. The Tale of the Overzealous PM: Bob’s Blunder Meet Bob, a PM with a vision so grand it overshadows the sun.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Imagine trying to maintain a unified message and overall brand vision across those time zones and organizations – it’s a big challenge for any marketer. If Shane’s vision for our Marketing team excites you, check out our open roles.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

With a keen focus on value and conducting Structured Conversations using the 7 Product Dimensions, you greatly improve your ability to go from vision to value. A successful product delivers value when it is aligned to your product vision and goals. Refinement Is about Readying. Start and End with Value. Conclusion. References.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Creating your product vision can be difficult when you focus too much on the product. ” Apply that same consumer product philosophy to B2B products and creating your product vision will be simple and it will resonate with everyone. Creating Your Product Vision. For Product Management & Engineering.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

You have this grand vision. We have some engineering teams that are so high-performing that they put a lot of pressure on PMs saying, ‘What’s next? What’s the vision? Then I come in and say, ‘We can’t waste engineering time now for six weeks on tech debt. We have plenty of ideas. We’re drowning in ideas.

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Radical Product

MARCH 19, 2021

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash Unpacking old myths about what makes a good vision so we can adopt a new, radical approach. We’ve learned that a good vision has to be a BHAG, i.e. a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. In setting a big vision, we set a high-level direction that no one would disagree with. it needs to be radical.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2017

Design agencies and engineering teams are filled with talented and experienced people. Both agencies and engineering team are often evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their individual output. Both agencies and engineering team are often evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their individual output.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 25, 2020

Whether you’ve been handed a new product vision to execute or you have an idea of your own, it’s also your job to socialize your product vision and gain buy-in from internal stakeholders. Let’s take a look at the process of socializing your product vision internally and why its imperative to your product’s success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product • Dovetail —The customer insights hub for product teams — Archie Abrams is the VP of Product and Head of Growth at Shopify, where he leads a 600+ person growth org across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and growth marketing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Stages In general, the security engineer interview has the following interview stages at most companies: 1.

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NextBigWhat

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A good vision can be about extension, expansion, or exploration. Pick choose your type of vision depending on the context, time, and resources available. Not all product visions need to be similar to that of building a metaverse. I rarely come across a good product vision. Most vision statements are abstract.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

From my experience of working directly with and solving problems for product management and delivery in a Fortune 100 financial services organization, I’d like to share my list of top grievances against bad product management, from an engineering perspective. Vision: The art of Seeing What is Invisible to Others.

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Product Management University

MARCH 24, 2021

It’s to demonstrate that you have a vision beyond the next release or two for how you’re going to make customers better at mission-critical processes that are strategic to their business. Engineering wants a product strategy that allows them to use their technical savvy. Product Strategy In the Ideal World….

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. Abstract by Oleg Shcherba What Does a Software Engineering Recruiter Do?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 13, 2024

Since I joined Alchemer, I’ve had the vision first to improve product performance and operations, followed by product delivery and engineering, and now I want to help our customers gain insight and business value from their data,” said Brandi.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 20, 2024

For better or worse, the PM job is an amalgamation of soft skills—communication, collaboration, coordination, influence, taste, vision, etc. Peter Thiel recently made this point—that AI is bad news for people with strong math skills and good for people with strong soft skills: What about product-minded engineers?

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. Facilitate collaboration between the product owner and the engineering team.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Frustrated Engineer. Product management and engineering needs to have a constant push-pull for progress to be made. Here are some of the things to keep in mind when working with engineers that I’ve gleaned from my experience. I’ve heard some variant of these phrases more than once. Don’t dictate the how.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 9, 2023

powered Bing search engine. Our engineer demoed the prototype of the ChatGPT functionality for the research and development team during a recent all-hands meeting. It was incredibly impressive what our engineer was able to accomplish during their dedicated passion project time. Well, it worked!

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Keeping engineering teams in-the-know on user jobs, outcomes and obstacles. Then you need to be the product expert with the skills to translate user needs into functional specifications that allow UX designers and engineers to distill them down into build tasks. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

When I introduced the notion of cross-functional, empowered product teams, the CEO said it was exactly what they needed and immediately created a task force with three VPs to lead the change: the VP of Product, the VP of Engineering, and the VP of HR. Put the engineering structure aside for now. We’ll deal with that later on.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Aman Khan is Director of Product at Arize AI, an observability company for AI engineers at companies like Uber, Instacart, and Discord. He has also led and worked on products at Cruise, Zipline, and Apple.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Your job as a product manager is to make sure designers and engineers have crystal clear targets for customer value they can easily hit. Staples of the Product Manager Job Description Most product management job descriptions still list responsibilities for vision, strategy, customer discovery, growth mindset, thought leadership, etc.,

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B2B Product Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Engineers as Product Managers Engineers bring many qualities to the table that can make them successful and effective product managers. Many products are now more technical in nature and require knowledge of engineering principles. So having a background in engineering helps become a good product manager.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2018

In speaking with many product people (PMs, designers, engineers, data scientists) over the last few months?—?I’ve I’ve realized that people use the words mission, vision and strategy interchangeably. Positioning it as a Q&A for readability (and to mix things up a bit) Mission, vision, strategy?—?I’ve Not going to lie?—?I’ve

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