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4 E's of Leadership Performing Focused Work in a Distracted World Beware the Empathy Trap Applying The Rules of IKIGAI for a more fulfilled life!Relationships, like products, need to be designed.My experience shadowing an Engineering Director for a week Effective Feedback Mechanism Honesty in Leadership Providing Clarity to team People, Process & Product Hosting a successful internal hackathon with < $6k budget "You don't care about quality" A story of single metric bias A Day in the Life of a Product Lead in FinTech – A Series Ten quotes from Adam Grant relevant while dealing with layoff I was passed for Promotion. 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Foster "Above the Line" Behaviors.Building Up Your Technical Skills in a Fast-Paced Industry How to Navigate Your Manager Role at a New Company Team Development Framework for new managers Bootstrapping a Startup While Working Full-Time Effective Hiring Practices: Asking the Right Questions How Product Management Chose Me How to Help Employees Find Their Strengths and Passions How Product Marketing Can (and Should) Help Product Development Managing Through a Team Reorganization Dealing with Uncertainties and Adapting as You Go Having Work-Life Balance: More Than Just A Suggestion Deciding if Management Is Right for You Promoting Interdepartmental Teamwork for More Efficient Problem-Solving How to Motivate Your Engineers to Grow in Their Careers What Is Team Health and How to Achieve It The Intermediate Engineer Syndrome How to Successfully Rebuild Your Product How to Empower Teams to Build Out a Product Portfolio During Company Growth Finding the Mission-Driven Product Management Role That You Want When Management Isn’t for You: How to Advance in Your Career as an IC Checking For Values Alignment When Considering a New Role The Importance of Effective Communication Skills in Technical Roles Guiding Your Team Through a Data-Driven Transformation Checking For Values Alignment When Considering a New Role The Importance of Culture and Values When Building Teams 10x engineer or 10x impact?How to Streamline Your Recruitment Process for Quick and Effective Hiring How to Maximize Employee Retention in Engineering Teams Hiring a Data Team With a Stubborn Manager The Art of Asking Why: Narrowing the Gap Between Customers and Users Managing Different Time Zones: Inclusive Collaboration Methods Managing Remotely: Balancing Team Cohesion and Focus Time Creating a Company Culture That Balances Helpfulness and Productivity Streamlining Product Processes After a Reorganization How Less Viable Solutions Solve Common Architectural Challenges Managing Culturally Diverse Remote Teams Navigating Disagreements When It Comes to Priorities Growing Through Different Engineering Lead Roles Preparing For Your First Presentation: The Art of Public Speaking A Look Into the Hiring Pipeline: How to Fine Tune the Interviewing Process Here to Make a Recognizable Difference: How to Develop Teams Balancing Technical Debt Innovation: How Roadmaps for Development Help Your Company Succeed The Optimization and Organization of Large Scale Demand Leading Your Team in Stressful Situations How to Foster and Reinforce Your Company Culture Hiring the Right People: Looking Beyond Just Technical Skills Why You Should Take Technology Risks in Product Development Identifying Individuals for Career Growth Opportunities How to Successfully Hire a Team in the Remote World The Challenges of Becoming a New Manager Among Old Peers Combining User Research with Testing to Build a Successful Product Implementing and Reviewing Roadmaps: Strategies for Transparency and Alignment The Necessary Structures of Time Management Fostering Emotional Safety as a Leader The Importance of Slow Rollouts in Product Development Navigating Your Role Change: From IC to Engineering Manager The Secret To Product Growth is Your People Why Documentation Is the Key to Success It's Time to Say 'No' to Manual Business Processes Owning Your Career Growth How to Hire and Build High-Value Teams How Remote Product Teams Can Operate Successfully Shortening the Feedback Loop to Improve Collaboration Destressing the Software Delivery Cycle Landing a Management Position without Recent Experience How to Produce Impact as a New Engineer How Hiring Teams and Candidates can Minimize Stress During an Interview Learning How to Delegate When You Become a Manager Managing with Empathy Amidst a Pandemic Typical Challenge of Scaling Teams: What to Do When Your Process Doesn’t Scale Pivoting a Product Market Fit Discovering Non-Traditional Pathways to Success Taking Healthy Risks in your Career Building a Remote Team: Focusing on the Hiring Pipeline Creating Impact as One of the First Hires in a Startup A First-Time Managers Guide to Performance Management Growing Your Team Effectively Company Growth: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Bring It All Together: How to Implement Processes in a Nutshell Aligning Hiring Panels as a New Manager Common Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them Additive Hiring: Looking Beyond Common Technical Interview Practices Three Steps to Implement a Performance Improvement Plan for an Underperforming Employee The Evolution of a Startup Co-Founder The Secret to Making Remote Work a Success To Be a Strong Leader, Hire People Smarter Than You Diamonds in the Rough: The Key to Recruitment Success Career Courage - Key to Career Progression Build V.S. Buy: Empowering Teams with a Data-Driven Approach How to Move Past Bureaucracies of Larger Organizations Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome to Land More Opportunities Designing a Career Ladder Scaling Your Developers Team: When and How to Start?What Companies Can Do to Reduce Technical Debt Concrete Tips to Convince Senior Management How to Overcome Fear and Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Transition from Individual Contributor to People Manager Balancing Personal and Professional Life Understanding Leadership Before Becoming a Manager Channeling a Startup Mindset when Prioritizing How Reminders can Unleash Your Full Potential Building Teams who are Loyal to Customers Launching a Successful Product through an Acquisition Aligning Strategic Business Objectives With Project Management Strategy Gaining Autonomy as the First Product Person in a Startup Adjusting to the Pace of a Startup Managing and Running Large Engineering Teams Successfully A Practical Guide to OKRs How to Tap Into Latent User Demand in a Marketplace Proving Structure for a Fast-Growing Team On The Contrary: Q&A with Seth Kimmel of Contrary Capital Inspired by Women in Technology When Asking “WHY” Becomes Counterproductive.Hustling to Land a Role in the Tech World Transitioning from Tech to Education: Making a Larger Impact The Multiplier Mindset: A Necessary Shift to Scale Building a World-class Software Quality Team from Scratch Being an Influencer of Quality Navigating Analytical Discussions for Best Product Fit How to Effectively Release Features Managing and Eliminating Cross-Team Dependencies What Challenges Do AI Startups Face?Managing Customer Expectations in the Age of AI How to Determine Product-Market Fit In Your Industry Did Work From Home Hurt the Video Game Industry?Product That Brings Opportunities What Makes a Good Product Culture?The Dilemma of Building a New Product vs. Rebuilding Existing Ones When Culture Does Not Translate Into Business Goals Obstacles and Challenges Within a Career Plan How to Run a Successful War Room What I learned Trying to Upskill a Tech Support Person to Engineering How Initiative Can Gain You a Promotion? Scaling a Small Team with a Strong Foundation Tips and Tricks for Moving From IC to Management Strengthening Team Dynamics Through Leadership The Importance of Shared Priorities Between Managers and Direct Reports Resolving Conflicts Within a Team Understanding the Jump Between IC and Management How an Agile Mindset Founded an Offset of Mentorship Shepherding a product from a Proof of Concept to Production Take the Time to Evaluate Your Career Scaling Engineering @ Trustly Working Moms and Problems They Face Coaching Women Engineers: Professionally, and for Life How to Build and Manage the First Product Roadmap for a Startup From Big Tech to Startup: Adding Value From Day 1 Should You Stay Up to Date with Technical Skills As a Product Manager? How to Spark Sales-Driven Change Getting Creative to Land Your First Tech Job What to Do When Candidates Turn Down Your Job Offer Strategies to Deliver Effective Employee Feedback Reasons Promoting From Within Is Better for Growing Your Business Change Management in Engineering Organization Communication Is the Key in the Workplace. Here’s How to Improve.Becoming a Manager of Engineers: Focusing on Team Visibility The Role of Testing in the Engineering Product Development Process Tips to Get Back to Work After a Career Break Navigating Unexpected Cultural Differences How to Replatforming a Major Organization Completing a Successful Reorganization within a Well-Established Company How to Recognize Traits of High-Performance From Candidates with Non-Traditional Backgrounds Understanding Career Growth: Promotion and Sideways Career Changes Aligning a Company Vision with Personal Values (Re)building product teams: insights from recent recruitment The Process of Scaling Small to Medium Sized Teams How to Deal with Organizational Adversity Analyzing a Problem for Real Causes and Coming to a Pragmatic Solution How an Organization Restructure can Enhance the Energy Levels & risk appetite of a Team Decreasing Distractions During the Remote Workday How to Successfully Transition From Engineer to Product Leader Craft or Context?: Simplifying the Career Path Embodying a Growth Mindset for Engineering Leaders Growing a Team and Implementing a Psychologically Safe Culture Growing a Team and Implementing a Psychologically Safe Culture How Mentorship Enabled me To Become a Manager Growing in Your Career and Becoming a Full-Stack Engineer The Benefits of Performance Reviews and How to Carry Them Out Understanding One Another: The Secret to Collaboration Using Documentation to Increase Efficiency in the Remote Workplace Making the Unpopular Decision to Focus on Stability Before New Products Taking Ownership of a Legacy System How to Encourage Your Direct Reports to Do Their Best Work Effective Cross-Functional Collaboration Between Technical and Product Leaders What an Engineering Manager Should Be Aware of in a SaaS-Based B2B Company Why One-On-One Conversations Are Important and How to Make Them Efficient Knowing When and How to Migrate From the Legacy System How to Align Individual, Team, and Organizational Goals for Success Best Practices of Working Cross Functionally Building a Product Team as an Engineering Leader Tips to Scale an Existing Engineering Team Temptation to Be a Reactive Instead of Proactive Product Manager How to Grow Your Business by Changing Product Dimensions Take Calculated Risks, Not Chances Overcoming Destructive Workplace Habits and Increasing Communication Improving Collaboration Between Cross-Functional Teams as a New Manager Executing a Sprint to Maintain Results Engaging with Customers to Find Successful Solutions How to Validate a Product from Start to Finish The Quiet Efforts to Overcome the Men-Only Environment in a Startup How Process Feedback at Work Without Triggering a Stress Response Managing Expectations: Product Management in a Startup Knowing How and When to Let Go of an Underperforming Employee Creating a Product Org with Agile Methodologies Introduction of a Matrix-Based Organizational Model in a Software House Unexpected Outsourcing Contract Termination Taking Over Maintenance and Development of Existing Customer Applications From Other Vendors Implementing a New Product From the Scratch Decommissioning of the Central Processing System and Migration to an In-House Claim Management Solution How to Break Into the Tech Industry Without Having Formal Tech-Education How and Why Meetings Should Be Conducted More Productively Struggles of a Junior Software Engineer and How to Deal With Them Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination How to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome Losing a Feature as a Leader Motivating a Team to Work on Less Exciting Tasks Leading a Team With a Different Area of Expertise How to Ensure a Successful Paternity Leave How To Successfully Transition From a Manager of ICs to a Manager of Managers Collaborating to Inspire Change Between Teams The Difficulty in Making Career-Defining Decisions The Natural Progression From an IC Role to Manager Increasing the Sustainability of a Product Upskilling a Junior in 90 Days Preparing Your Team for the Remote Workplace How to Strengthen Your Team Pitch Improving Team Execution in a Remote Environment Identifying the “Right” Problem to Solve Why Performance Feedback Should be More Frequent Increasing Collaboration Within Your Team Delegate successfully as a first time manager of Product Managers Inviting Juniors to Learn New Skills Specialization vs. Wearing Many Hats Firing Somebody for the First Time Working From the Ground Up Building a New Team in a Foreign Country Why Overloading Product Teams Never Work How to Pivot a Product Idea at the Right Time Transitioning From Tech to Product Management What It Takes to Understand Other’s Perspective How to Handle Team Collaboration After a Merger?Overcoming Constraints Through Creative Thinking Building trust as a new Manager Mergers and Acquisitions: Collaboration tools hold a key to bringing cultures together What it takes to become a great product manager The art of managing up Are your 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Executive Role Creating a Sustainable Work-Life Balance How to Build a Successful Onboarding Process The Power of Collaboration Between Junior and Senior Engineers Why We Need Diversity How to Feel Heard During Video Meetings Succeeding as a New Product Manager How to Encourage Innovation in Your Team How Aligned Product and Marketing Teams Can Impact Growth & User Experience How to Scale Product Teams for Empowerment & Impact?How Technical is Your Conversation?Should Product Managers be Technical?How to Lead Decisions By Following Market Problems Finding the Career Path for You Gaining Experience to Transition Roles How to Successfully Complete A Major Reorganization The Importance of a Detailed Leveling Guide Researching and Learning how to Make Machines Learn Gaining the Technical Confidence to Crush an Interview Ethics and Equality in Software Engineering Securing A Fluid Transition to an Established Organization Succeeding as the First Product Hire in a Startup Focusing on Products Over Services Selling Technically Complex Products Promoting Change Without Losing Partners Preparing for Heated Discussions with Major Clients Creating New Hiring Methods to Find Qualified Candidates How To Fast-Track Your Way Up The Corporate Ladder The Problem-Solving Process: A Modern, Data-Driven Approach for Engineering leaders How to Improve Team Communication Mentoring Freshly Recruited Employees Leading Change Through Planning and Collaboration Simplifying and Prioritizing Key Objectives Establishing Alignment After Company Acquisition Changing Brand Perception What to Do When You Don't Have a Product Vision Choosing the Perfect Implementation of Agile Regrouping With the Help of the Data What Makes a Great One-on-One?The Journey Into Management An Engineer’s Place in Product Creation Take Opportunities to Think Like a Product Manager Motivating Your Team to Deliver Results Improving the Quality of a Platform with Empathy Overcoming Hiring Constraints Creating an Engineering Vision How to Hire, Train, and Align a Technology Team Evolving as a Young Tech Founder How to Address Challenges in Geographically Distributed Team How to Manage an Employee With Depression Why Engineers Need to Understand Business Perspectives Internalizing Your Company Values Providing Support Through Excellent Documentation Creative Recruitment Strategies to Hire Great Candidates Taking The Lead As A Manager In Crisis Product Management Requires Skill, Not a Degree Recruitment Strategies to Implement When Hiring Niche Talent Optimizing With Scrum Learning From Your Mistakes Telemetry in the QA Process How to Wear a Lot of Hats Strategic Ways to Stop Losing Customers Leading Cultural Change in an Organization Powerful Reasons Why Goal Setting Is Important Finding the Right Fit as a Product Manager Delivering Outcomes on a new platform in the first 180 days Managing New Team Members How to Be an Effective Manager During a Crisis Tips on How to Improve Backlog Grooming Meetings Retaining Top Talents Hiring Niche Talents in a Fiercely Competitive Market Three-Phase Approach to Onboarding Engineers in a Distributed Services Environment How Managers Can Support Employee Career Growth Expert Antidote to Repair a Toxic Culture How to Get Your Team Back on Track Resolving Workplace Conflict Achieving Alignment With Male Colleagues Building the Future in Front of You Communicating Effectively Integrating a Team of Offshore Contractors Feelings Aside: Handling a Team Layoff When Solving Problems for Others Is Wrong There Is No Commitment Without Disagreement Cultivating Accountability Easing the Fear of Failure with Guidance Playing the Father Figure Embracing Feedback as an Organization Taking a Product from Inception to Market Pleading With Your Executive Team Seeing What’s Out There Establishing Yourself in a Market How to Stay Technical as an Engineer Manager Managing a Product Team Scaling Teams Through an Unconventional Approach Know Your Customers Needs How to Manage Managers Reinvent a Product From Scratch The Changing Face of Life Insurance Why You Should Design a Better Hiring Process Prioritizing Technical Debt How to Manage an Employee With Depression How to Address Challenges in Geographically Distributed Team Why Engineers Need to Understand Business Perspectives Creating a Reference Architecture Acquisition Troubles: Learning from a Legacy System Managing Problems With Technical Expertise Cultivating Self-Discipline How to Make an Impact Overcoming Remote Work Challenges Build Your Product Quickly When Legacy Codebase Stalls Innovation Making Delivery Faster Building an Organization From the Ground Up Alleviating the Infamous QA Bottleneck Establishing a New Function Helping Your Reports Become Managers Relationship-Based Development Product Transformation: Why Prioritization Is Critical Balancing Good Enough and Perfect Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Product Teams Scaling Agile in Large Dependent Teams Setups 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Teams Are Easier to Empower and Earn Autonomy Faster Scaling Teams to Make Better Decentralised Decisions via Documents and Tenets Dealing With Imposter Syndrome, There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Perfect PM’Influencing Without Authority (Servant leadership)Taking a Leap of Faith: My Career Path Managing a Report With Communication Issues Making Some Tough Roadmap Decisions Approaching Predictive Analytics Problems The Key to Successful Cross-Functional Collaboration Building an Integrative Solution for Healthcare The Missing Know-How What I Am Passionate About Developing Products That Matter Validating a Big Product Bet Building a Functionality-Rich Product From Scratch Navigating Through a Meandering Career Coping Under Pressure Product Change Management A Guide to Announcing New Features Effectively The Move From Manager to Senior Manager Learn the Skills and Get the Job as a PM Master Transition From Waterfall to Agile Organic Leadership: Becoming a Manager Getting Ready for a Cold Start Managing Underperformance Introducing Modularity and Creating Componentization Putting a Stake in the Ground From Innovation Lab to Innovative Engineering Closing a Candidate: How a Customized Narrative Can Help Helping Product as an Engineering Leader Being a New Engineering Leader on a Team Set Realistic Expectations with Upper Management How I Improved Test Automation Why and How to Advocate for Your Employees Moving From a Team Member to Manager Motivating the Team Spirit Dealing With Manager Who Is in a Different Country Everyone Is a Potential Leader Outcome vs. Output-Driven Organizations How to Maintain a Startup Mentality How to Align Various Internal Stakeholders and Their Requests When to Build New Features The Ability to Inspire People Towards a Common Goal How to Advance When There Is No Career Ladder Building a Next-Gen Product What Failures Can Teach Us: Migrating to Cloud-Native Microservices Handling Ambiguity in the Workspace From Building Features to Leading Product Development How to Break Down Team Silos Identifying the Real Problem Reducing Tech Debt: Roll Up Your Sleeves Introducing the Agile Mindset Transforming a Waterfall Team Into a High-Performing Agile Team How to Run Horizontal Teams At Scale How to Encourage Innovation in a Large Organization Developing a Rewards and Recognition Program From Zero From the First 20 Customers Managing Expectations on a Highly Visible Project Deciding to Build Vs. 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Long-Term Hiring How Do Set Clear Hiring Expectations Managing Experienced People How Smart Managers Deal With Toxic Employees Secrets to Finding Niche Talents How to Grow at Work Finding a Balance Between Staying Hands-On and Letting Things Go Helping Ramp Up Teamwork Finding the Right Office Space for a Startup Fundraising in the Midwest Being a Manager from Scratch Enhancing Communication in Distributed Development Involving QA in the Development Process Remote Onboarding: Setting New Hires Up for Success Turning Around a Dysfunctional Team How to Attract Talent to a Startup Shipping Cloud-Native Software With a Focus on Sustainable Operability How to Cope With Job Stress and Build Resilience Why It Is Time to Think About Women Leadership Successfully Handling Team Transition Giving Back to Other Women in the Industry Scaling Purposefully Knowing When It’s Time to Move On Balancing Work and Family Being an Advocate for Other Women Effective Collaboration Between Engineering and 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Between a Rock and a Hard Place How to Prioritize Engineering Work When Everything Is Important Developing a Strategic Plan Prioritizing the Well-Being of Your Team Hiring Externally vs. Promoting Internally Dealing With Two Different Extremes Finding Unity Through a Common Mission Building Teams Remotely Plotting Out a Career Map for Your Employees The IC vs. Managerial Mindset The Importance of One-on-Ones Rational Agile Being the Only Woman In the Room Balancing Empathy with Discipline Developing Emotional Intelligence as a Manager Making Information Security a Company-Wide Priority Delivering an Effective Performance Review The First Three Phases of a Company Transitioning From Vice President of Engineering to CTO Having Impact on ICs as a Manager Giving Juniors an Opportunity to Grow Structuring Cross-Functional Teams Navigating Through a Meandering Career Building a Fully Cross-Functional Team Mastering Delegation: A First-Time Manager’s Perspective Navigating Freelance Work Creating My First Product From Scratch Software Development Life Cycle: A Product Guy’s Perspective Problems With Prioritization: A Glass Jar Metaphor Why Establishing Long-Term Relationship With Your Manager Can Benefit You How and Why You Should Hire “Boomerang” Employees Challenges Faced as the Vice President of Engineering Right Is Better Than Fast Making Moves: Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management Enabling Rural Coverage The Simple Rule for Prioritization Tips to Align Stakeholders Challenges of Working From Home Structuring a Scaling Team to Optimize for Growth Does Remote Work Really Work?On the Way From an IC to a Manager Managing Employee Experience During Hyper-Growth How to Adapt the Roadmap Process to a Hyper-Growth Scaleup Handling Layoffs for the First Time Flexibility and Listening as a Manager How to Do Performance Reviews Setting Up a Product Team for Success Developing a One-Year Execution Strategy Leading a Globally Distributed Team My Transition From 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Difference Between Working as a Technician and Working as a Manager Building Relationships While Integrating Oneself into a New Culture Finding Your Calling as You Specialize in Your Field Restructuring a Team Methodically Leading Your Reports to the Careers of Their Dreams Learning How to Overcome the Language Barrier How to Inspire Innovation Holding Partner Teams Accountable Supporting Your Team in the Midst of Change How to Structure an Effective One-on-One Being a Manager of a New Manager How to Build Happy Teams Managing Twenty-Five Direct Reports Building an Effective Team Most Productive Version of Yourself Restructuring a Growing Team: A Lesson in Adjusting the Spotify Model Hack Your Team: How to Stay Connected With Your Remote Team Adjusting My Military Leadership Style When AI Features Are Market-Ready Building a Practical Career Ladder for Engineers Optimizing for Results Instead of Velocity Learning What It Means to Become a Servant Leader The Parking Lot Method of Team Development Avoiding the Trap of “The Perfect Candidate” When Many Employees Leave the Company Simultaneously Leaving Your Company as a Manager Being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time Collaborating With a Cross-Functional Expert Finding Common Ground With Those of Different Backgrounds Musings of a Former Start-Up Founder Working From Home Can Be Fun and Productive When Done Right Why Leaders Should Focus on Strengths, Not Weaknesses How to Create a Tailored Growth Plan For Your Teams Managing Tight Deadlines While Building a New Team How to Creatively Juggle Technical Debt and Product Priorities Promoting With a Career Ladder Investing in Improvement Vs. Investing in a Potentially High-Yielding Bet How Context Evolves as You Advance as a Manager Aligning Your Product Strategy With Your Company’s Overall Strategy How to Delegate Effectively What Makes the Perfect One-on-One?Designing a Leveling Rubric for a Small Company How to Uplift a Competent Employee Troubled by Interpersonal Problems Finding the Right Moment of Opportunity to Advance Yourself Testing, Learning, and Improving: Building a Successful System Progressively Standing up for an Employee in Trouble Making the Most of User Data in Early-Stage Products Mentorship Troubles: Finding the Right Fit Switching Career From Engineering to Product Management Balancing Expectations of Multiple Stakeholders The Limits to Improvement Establishing the Goals for an Acquired Organization Understanding a Product Domain Managing an IC Who Is Getting Ahead of the Project Timeline Using Pre-Mortems to Set the Stage for a Successful Product Launch Challenging the Status Quo Branching Out Your Skillset as a Junior Healing Broken Trust in Your Team My One-on-Ones With Myself Being Intentional About Your Career Growth How to Instill a Growth Mindset in Your Team The Benefits of an Agile Working Environment Finding Peace Between Culturally-Diverse Teams Working Toward a New Vision Pretotyping a Product That Doesn’t Yet Exist Testing and Solving a Problem as a Team It Takes Focus to Make a Turnaround Avoiding “Automatic Mode”Hiring the Candidate Who Will Stay Leading with Context Helps Everybody Level Up Leveling With Your CEO Effectively Maintaining Your Agenda in the Long-Term Resolving a Start-Up’s Dysfunctional Past as Their New Product Manager Phasing Out an Employee Struggling to Assimilate into the Culture of the Company How to Deliver Value in the Three-Sided Marketplace Hiring for a Startup Breaking Out Our Project Team Into Multiple Stream-Aligned Teams Becoming a Manager: My Three-Step Journey Assuming the Role of the Champion Beyond the Work/Life Balance: Connecting with Your World Deeply in Order to Find Your Purpose Choosing the Long-Term Well-Being of the Team Over the Small Things Thinking Both Short-Term and Long-Term as a Manager Making the Leap from Being a Developer to a Product Manager Becoming a Scrum Master Dealing with Personal Conflict Helping Employees Overcome Fear Managing Squads Effectively Relying on Sub-Managers to Improve and Optimize Creating a Safe Environment by Gathering Employee Feedback Leading a Team Purposefully With Established Expectations Is Management the Right Path for You Graduating From Developer to Entrepreneur Building Confidence as a New PM Resolving a Conflict Hiring the Right Staff and Knowing Who the Right Staff is Choosing the Right Technology Stack for Your Project Overcoming IT Challenges for Onboarding New Hires Dire Consequences of a Lack of Product Vision Structuring a Large Team: A Two-Phase Approach Developing Better Incident Response Policies Providing a Great User Experience When Expanding Internationally Balancing Work and Life as a New Mother Fostering a Healthy One-on-One Mentorship When Delegation Means Growth Creating Greater Alignment Among Managers How to Communicate With Former Peers Making the Connection Between Developing a Product and the Real-World Consequences of Failure Finding a Higher Calling as a Professional Paving the Way for the Women of Tomorrow Seeing Past the “Dark Side” of Management Insights on Diversity and Inclusion Building a Structure for Scaling Teamwork Leading a Team: A Short Introduction to Chaos Achieving High Performance From a Cross-Functional Team Empowering Product and Engineering Leaders to Achieve the Best Business Results Creating a Useful Product Vision How to Work Mindfully Without Overstressing Employee Empowerment and Team Building Developing Leaders: What to Do When Your Team Starts to Grow Building Communities of Practice Creating a Career Development System Zero Downtime Migration Inheriting a Project Behind Schedule Leveling Yourself Up: Keeping Up the Pace of a Rapidly Growing Company Engaging Contractors: A Framework to Minimize the Risks and Maximize the Outcome Next Level Support Engineering (a.k.a. Incidents Management Engineering)Managing vs. Contributing as an IC: The Train/Canoe Mindset Creating a Metric to Measure Progress in an Area of Ambiguity Learning to Speak the Languages of Many Types of Reports Dealing With the Catastrophic Failure of an Important Product Shrinking the Ego and Becoming Receptive to Others “Right-Sizing” Your Team With Empathy The Early Days of Agility Driving Freestyle Innovation Inside Large Organizations Becoming the Type of Leader That You Would Want to Follow Upgrading Old Processes to Meet the Goals of the Future The Antidote to Being Too Thinly Spread Implementing a Process of Standardization for a Large Company Becoming a Part of the Ecosystem of Your Industry Meeting the Needs of Your Product’s Core Demographic Negotiating Your Way Out of a Hard Product Commitment Leveraging Professional Strengths to Overcome Personality Differences Play to Their Strengths: Effectively Utilizing Offshore Resources in the Face of Deep-Rooted Prejudice The Key to Presenting to Senior-level Managers Managing Globally Distributed Team How Learning New Skills are Enormously Pivotal to Your Growth The Ambiguous Role of a CTO Overcoming Either/Or of Tech Debt The In-Between of Being an IC and a Manager Coaching Before Radical Candor Moving from Data as a Product to Data as a Service Don’t Go to a Vendor for a Solution The Critical Role of Conflict Resolution in Teams The Key to Horizontal Leadership Roles Across Product Teams How to Keep Team Morale High During Difficult Times Coaching Juniors With No CS Degree How to Make an Offshore Team Feel Included Drawing the Line Between the Roles of a CTO and an EM How to Handle Different Goal-Setting Systems Nurturing the Well-Being of Isolated Employees Working Remotely Choosing Candidates Who Share Your Company Culture Moving the Needle as a New Manager Distressing About ‘Work-Life Balance’ Can Be a Trap Managing Inconsistency in the Workplace Hiring for Talent vs. Hiring a Skillset Adjusting to the Freedom of Working From Home Becoming Aware of and Accounting for Personal Bias Knowing When the Right Time to Move On Is Upon You How to Lead a Tech Team Without a Formal Tech Degree Common Pitfalls of New Engineering Managers Delivering Impactful Product Changes When a New Manager Falters Under the Burden of Leadership Providing an Adequate System of Support for a New Manager Joining a Pre-Existing Team as a Senior-Level Leader Helping Juniors Level Up How to Develop an Engineering Working Agreement Making Recruiting Everyone’s Job Scaling Onboarding Iteratively How To Make One-on-Ones More Exciting Blameless Incident Management Building a Culture of Ownership and User Empathy Transitioning From a Fortune 20 Company to a Start-Up Just Finding Its Place Workshopping a Team and Clearing the Way for Success Building Software in a Hardware Company Improving Diversity Initiatives How NOT to Introduce a New Revenue Model Breaking Out of a Feature Factory Managing a QA Team for the First Time Getting Machine Learning Projects Unstuck Helping Your Team Understand Its Scope Putting Fear Aside While Growing Into a New Role Emotional Intelligence‌ in Management Maintaining Productivity as a Quickly-Scaling Team Combining Styles of Leadership Motivating Development Through Employee Enrichment How a Framework Can Kill Productivity How to Scale User Feedback How to Cultivate Customer Empathy Flexing Your Management Style Encouraging Your Team to Make Decisions Autonomously How to Bring New People to Your Team Two Months Into a New Role Developing a Strategy: Abstracting Up Vs. Adding Why Defining Engineering Principles Is Critical Taking a Product From a Concept to Launch Using Data to Increase One’s Sphere of Influence Moving On With a Technical Proof of Concept How to Choose Between Different Vendors Getting Buy-In from Senior Executives When Promotion Comes Too Quickly Taking Over a New Team When Unfamiliar With the Domain Making of a Bi-Directional, Prioritized Roadmap Scaling Processes in a Startup Pivoting Your Business During Covid-19 Collaborating and Brainstorming New Product Ideas in a Remote World Adopting Agile by Piloting Projects Advocating for Your Product Promoting the Same Product in Multiple Markets Multiple Scrum Teams Work on the Same Product Manage Default Product Settings for New and Existing Users Four Common Challenges of a First-Time Manager One-On-Ones Through a Cultural Lens Acting Quickly To Resolve an Incident Securing Support For a Revamped App The Critical Role of User Research When Your Manager Leaves Transitioning From a Large Company to a Startup Building a New Domain Team Strategic Thinking for Engineers Conscious Career Growth How I Succeed at Convincing… Everyone Using Snippets to Track Performance and Growth How to Establish Yourself as a Leader Debugging Your Own Growth Being Intentional About Diversity and Inclusion The Benefits of Returnship Pausing for Innovation How to Retain Women Engineers Helping Your Reports Choose The Right Career Path Shipping Products Faster with Confidence Leading Post-Acquisition How to Balance the Continual Proliferation of Ideas With Limited Resources Building a Brand New Data Product Streamlining a Data Science Team Building a DevOps Team and Re-Architecting the Product: A Matter of Priority Managing an East Coast Team From the West Coast Leading a Team in Different Geographies Embracing People From Non-Traditional Backgrounds The Benefits of Documentation Tech Debt Is a People Problem Picking the Right Tool for a Remote Engineering Team Turning Product Usage Data Into User Features How Data Made Me More Confident to Drive Big Decisions Helping Engineers Become Well-Rounded Product Managers Keeping Your Team Motivated and Connected in the Midst of Pandemic Struggling to Deliver Negative Feedback Increasing Visibility When Doing Well Learning to Delegate My Hackathon Story Focusing on Customer Problems Joint Skip-Level Meetings Interviewing for an Entry-Level Product Role: Why Presentations Matter Increasing Test Coverage Introducing OKRs: A Lesson in Compromise Modifying the Shape Up Process Promotion Alignment Amongst Managers Building and Formalizing a Career Ladder in a Startup From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team How to Formalize a Career Ladder How to Build a Platform Team Budgeting Troubles and Headcount Costs A Founder’s Dilemma: Choosing Between Technology and Customers Building Trust or Doing a Reorg Two Key Elements of a New Manager’s Mindset Introducing Engineering Design When Words Bear More Weight The Pursuit of Impact: My First Year at Netflix Securing Buy-In for New Metrics Why Hiring Juniors Hiring a CTO… and Letting Them Go How to Unlock the Potential of Your Average Engineer Managing Career Growth of Your Reports How to Drive a Team Vision as a First-Time Manager How to Be Acquired In-House Mentorship Program: Creating Learning Opportunities for Engineers Developing a Career Development Plan Being Explicit About a Work-Life Balance When Being Helpful Backfires Delivering a New Beta Product on a Tight Deadline Improving Peer Review Practice Leveraging Roadmap Planning for Engagement and Alignment Building a Product Team: Identifying Desired Attributes and Activities Creating Space on Your Roadmap for Innovation and Improvements Building a Platform Team How to Drive Operational Excellence Leading an Organization Through a Colossal Change Adapting Scrum to Continuous Deployment Tech Debt Bankruptcy A Lack of Clear Vision and the Team Morale Restructuring a Team: How to Enhance Accountability and Ownership Learning to Sell Integrating a Junior Engineer Into a New Team Balancing Your Team and Product Sponsor’s Requirements (Not) Finding the Right Job Bringing a New Product to Market Dropping the Ball Explicitly Building a Startup Within a Large Corporation Evaluating Engineers: A Three-Step Guide When an Engineer Has to Make Product Decisions Understand the History of Agile, or Be Doomed To Repeat It Avoid Failure: Know Your Hypotheses Handling Frustrating Feature Requests Getting a Team More Efficient and Excited in a Remote-First Environment How to Deliver Complex Cross-Functional Projects How to Empower Teams to Be More Autonomous Learn or Die!Horizontally Scaling the Engineering Organization Hiring for a Director of Engineering Cultivating the Company Culture in a Hyper-Growth Startup How to Drive Product Strategy in a B2B Sales-Driven Company Adapting the Existing Product Suite for a New Market Aligning a Product Tech Stack Creating an Evolving Process to Address Customer Issues Creating an In-House Mentorship Program Fostering a Culture of Experimentation How to Ensure Team Coherence When Working Remotely Creating a Culture of Quality Introducing Design in the Roadmap Creation Process Even High Performers Need Direction and Support How to Level Up Your Design Team How to Overcome a Sense of Worthlessness Building a Gender-Balanced Engineering Team How to Deal With a Junior Engineer Who Is Resolute on Rewriting the Code Leading With Curiosity Accepting Tough Decisions One Culture, One Organization, One Mission… Post-Acquisition Structuring a Startup for Scale Distributed Leadership Before It Was Cool Building a Diverse, but Cohesive Team Head or Tail: What PMs Should Be After Overcoming the Multi-Person Identity Challenge Why a Risk-Driven Product Roadmap Managing Cross-Team Dependencies Bringing Tangible Results Within the First Quarter Building Internal Tools and Balancing Different Stakeholders’ Requirements Managing Team Conflict and Helping Engineers Gain Confidence Choosing the Right Management Style Building the Automated Testing Culture How to Deal With a Seismic Change in Strategy Proactively Minimizing the Burden of Technical Support on Your Organization Building an Internal Product: How to Manage Internal Stakeholders Coaching Your Managers to Solve Their Own Problems How Managers Can Spot Burnout in Their Employees When to Hire Senior Engineers and Tech Leads Shaping the Culture of a New Team Building New Remote Teams How to Build a Successful New Team Team Building Activities for Remote Teams Remote Hiring in the “Corona Times”How to Help an Underperforming Employee How to Setup Behavioral Interviews Based on Company Values How to Establish and Manage Expectations with the Business Helping Engineers to Become Successful Managers Making Onboarding Part of the Interviewing Process Team Leads as a Mini-CTOs Leading as an Introvert