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Working with engineers is product management
Marc Abraham “has gained a deep understanding of how to facilitate productive collaboration. He learned that in order to develop and maintain a healthy working relationship between product managers and engineers, product managers and engineers need to have mutual respect and understanding, and clear roles and responsibilities.” Generally speaking, product managers are responsible for what and why and engineers are responsible for the how. In this episode of This is Product Management, Marc shares how he collaborates with engineers by keeping those ideas in mind. (via @MAA1)
5 ways product managers can make an engineer’s job easier
“As a Product Manager, demands are placed on you from many different areas – from engineering and design to marketing and business development. However, software engineers tend to be the ones who work closest with Product Managers on a day-to-day basis – and they usually have a pretty clear idea of the things which make his or her job a little (or a lot) easier.” Kirsty Lee suggests a few ways you can bring smiles to your engineering team’s faces. (via @kirstyllee)
Product Managers: Want to work better with engineers? Here’s the secret
Maggie Crowley met with members of Drift’s Product and Engineering teams Alexa Nguyen, Trevor Rundell, and Peter Karl to discuss the best way for product and engineering to work together. They discuss how they break through the perception that engineers should be wholly removed from the customer through “Story Time” – planning meetings that build a shared understanding between product and engineering. “In these meetings, it’s not about the nitty-gritty technical details, but rather figuring out whether or not an idea will work. And more importantly, if implementing this idea will actually solve a problem for our customers.” (via @gaxelro, @maggiecrowley, @anguyenrex, @iamtrun)
How to Work with Software Engineers
INDUSTRY alum (and Partner at GV), Ken Norton, has written some pretty classic product essays in his time. This essay on how to best work with software developers is certainly included in the list of “classics.” We wonder if being the one to always bring the donuts will come up?
[VIDEO] Working with Designers and Developers
Last year, Product Collective’s very own Mike Belsito held a live video chat with Michael Sacca, his co-host for the top-rated product podcast, Rocketship.FM. In that chat, the two Michaels spent time talking about how product people can work best with developers, designers, and other critical members of the product team. You can watch the full chat here.
9 Tips for Product Managers on ow to Best Work with Software Developers
Earlier this year, self-proclaimed product nerd, John Cutler, shared a pretty great tweetstorm with some advice for product managers on how to best work with software developers. The advice must have been pretty good, because it was liked and retweeted by other product people hundreds of times. You can see the recap here on Hackernoon.
How to Work Effectively with Engineers.
Just because it’s on our development team to create the product, it doesn’t mean that we should only focus on what needs to be created. It’s important to remember to communicate the outcome — what happens once the product is actually created. You’ll find this piece of advice along with others in this guest post from Cliff Gilley on the UserVoice Blog.
How to Work Effectively with Engineers
Just because it’s on our development team to create the product, it doesn’t mean that we should only focus on what needs to be created. It’s important to remember to communicate the outcome — what happens once the product is actually created. You’ll find this piece of advice along with others in this guest post from Cliff Gilley on the UserVoice Blog.
Six Ways Product Managers Can Help Their Agile Development Teams (and Vice Versa)
Rich Mironov shared six ways that product managers can help the teams they work with, and six ways that teams can help the product managers they work with. These suggestions reinforce that “It’s all about building and shipping great products, not getting hung up on title or roles.”
How Engineers Want to Work with Product Managers
Besides communication, another key to a good relationship is the ability to see things from others’ perspective. Zach Schneider shares how engineers like to work with product managers. Use this perspective to be a product manager that is an engineer’s dream come true.