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How a Software Engineering Career Started the Journey to Fintech Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. I was a software engineer, so I was learning a lot of things on the go and on the job,” said Rao of his early-stage product management roles at Parity Cube and other startups.

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Core Concept: What Roles are Represented in a Product Trio?

Product Talk

What about user researchers, data analysts, product marketing managers, and all your other favorite roles? In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. Product marketing managers? Some with quite a bit of outrage.

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Learn Software Engineering Levels to Advance Your Career

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Software engineering levels are the road map that gets you to your career destination. Even so, the main benefit for you is that software engineering levels create a clear ladder of progression, and understanding the responsibilities and expectations for each level will help you to climb that ladder.

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Modus Create Acquires Romanian Software Engineering Firm Clarisoft

Modus Create

Modus Create has acquired Clarisoft , a Romanian software engineering company with deep expertise in custom product development for enterprises. The acquisition of Clarisoft represents our third acquisition in the European market. . We kick off 2023 with an excited update! Fifth Acquisition in 12 Months.

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To Build or Not to Build: Creating Great Products and Avoiding Overengineering

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly.

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

increase market share, increase countries served). New competitors enter our markets. A product trio —typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer—leads product discovery. A product trio—typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer—leads product discovery.

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How to navigate this terrible job market? Niche down.

UX Planet

After over four years of working freelance/contract, I entered the full-time job market for the first time this year. When I say niche down, I mean finding the narrow slice of the market where you can beat out all of the competition. How to navigate this terrible job market? I braced myself for a painful, prolonged process.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly.