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Why Your Engineers Are Hungry for Your Product Vision.

The Product Coalition

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Why you Should Invest in Relationships With Your Engineering Team

Mind the Product

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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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

I find it extremely helpful that the entirety of the team’s time is clearly defined, even when that line of work is not managed by the PM (such as technical debt, which should be managed by the engineering organization). Is this thing you’re asking with our mission, vision, value proposition? More than what’s already in the pipeline?

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A Product Manager's Guide to Working Effectively with Engineering Teams

Speaker: Sayanti Ghosh, Product Manager – AI/ML at Teck Resources Ltd.

“There’s probably no more important relationship for a successful product manager than the one with your engineers" (INSPIRED by Marty Cagan). It is the PM who is responsible to lead the product team, collaborate with designers and engineers, and drive value to bring the vision to fruition.

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How we’re building a marketing engine to move upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

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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If Your Product Strategy Doesn’t P**s Somebody Off, It’s Not Very Good!

Product Management University

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….