The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Split

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Say your customers book a holiday or review their retirement plan only once a year. Exercise discretion and override the holdback when it is more expensive than interesting. Keep Technical Debt Under Control. That is a legitimate source of concern for the software engineers and the operational managers who will want to move on.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. AI product managers share several responsibilities and functions with technical product managers. This is a plus when coordinating with the technical team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical PM Skills A big part of the role of a startup product manager is working with engineers to define and build the product. While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Why Truly Multidisciplinary Teams Can Lead to Building Better Products Every discipline needs a seat at the table By Adam Talcott , Software Engineering Manager , YML Photo by Pascal Swier on Unsplash Imagine yourself as a software architect or tech lead, and a project manager brings you in to a new software project.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

STEP stands for Student Training in Engineering. As you can imagine, being one of the biggest tech companies, this engineering internship program is a favorite for many students. This program is a developmental opportunity designed for first and second-year undergraduate students with an ambition for engineering careers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 31, 2020

This exercise will help you narrow your search for the right mentor, and your thoughtfulness will make you a more attractive mentee. Google any technical questions. AnitaB’s mission is to support women in tech in a variety of ways, including connecting mentors, mentees, and building peer networks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

Whether we're talking about its world-famous search engine, YouTube, or one of its many cloud-based apps, millions of people use Google products every day. The software engineers at Google work on some of the most influential products in the world. 3 Points: The candidate solved the problem but not optimally.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. The most obvious crossover will be with other product managers, PMMs, or software engineers.

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Izenda

JULY 22, 2020

In their own words: “…We assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Envisioning why some team dynamics work and others do not requires a bit of mental exercise. Say you have a formidable “A-Team” of software engineers.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

They tell the doctor that they exercise more than they do. According to some data we’ve collected, a large reason people don’t buy specific events relevant to them is that they don’t know about them,” says Christopher Vezzuto, Senior Software Engineer at Ticketmaster. They oversell their accomplishments on a resume.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

They tell the doctor that they exercise more than they do. According to some data we’ve collected, a large reason people don’t buy specific events relevant to them is that they don’t know about them,” says Christopher Vezzuto, Senior Software Engineer at Ticketmaster. They oversell their accomplishments on a resume.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

They tell the doctor that they exercise more than they do. According to some data we’ve collected, a large reason people don’t buy specific events relevant to them is that they don’t know about them,” says Christopher Vezzuto, Senior Software Engineer at Ticketmaster. They oversell their accomplishments on a resume.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. What was amazing about this opportunity is that I got to see lots of technical roles in that short time. At the time I thought this would be the perfect mix of my passion for finance and software engineering.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 10, 2020

There is also a technical reason for having good lighting – the digital cameras in phones and computers automatically increase the sensitivity of the camera in bad light, resulting in a fuzzy picture. You might need to share the results of a take-home exercise stored on your computer.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It just involved coordinating with the designer and tech lead, getting access to customers and prospects to start interviewing , and putting time on everyone’s calendars to do the actual work of opportunity mapping , creating interview snapshots, and deciding which solutions to pursue. How do you know what engineers care about most?

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