Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How do we improve in the area of product management? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Ellen Gottesdiener, President of EBG Consulting, discuss ways companies can better oversee the development and lifecycle of a product in its entirety. A working definition of product management (1:15).

Product Management 71

Product Management Weak Development Team Agile Testing 71

Honeycomb

JULY 12, 2023

I was curious about moving up the engineering management ladder eventually, but I assumed a VP opportunity would be out of reach for a long time, if ever. Goals like executing well against our product strategy and leveling up our user experience were instead the concerns of the day, and there I could be more helpful.

Part-Time VPE 98

Part-Time VPE Engineering B2C Technical Review 98

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Director of Product Management, Cloudera.

Fractional CTO 134

Fractional CTO Technical Review Big Data Analytics 134

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Director of Product Management, Cloudera.

Fractional CTO 113

Fractional CTO Program Management Programming Big Data 113

Trigent

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A product engineering service partner can assess the product concept from an agnostic viewpoint and evaluate what will work best for the business. This phase is led by the Product Manager and would include clarity on the target audience and the feasibility of innovative features.

Engineering 52

Engineering Technical Review Marketing Minimum Viable Product 52

LaunchDarkly

JULY 17, 2020

On June 18, Ben Wilson, Engineering Manager at InVision, spoke at LaunchDarkly’s Test in Production Twitch Stream. Ben explained the process of how, when, and why a virtual squad may be your best bet to speed up decision-making and time-to-release across your engineering, product, and design organizations.

Virtualization 52

Virtualization Enterprise Development Team Review Weak Development Team 52

James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Ensure each team includes a product manager or has a product manager they can work with. I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. Get Team Buy-In.

Agile 94

Agile Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE Coaching 94

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

Weak Development Team 72

Weak Development Team Software Review Product Management Engineering 72

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

We focus a lot on, as executives, sharing context, sharing vision, get everyone in line on strategy, but we don’t focus on making it truly safe, and also clarifying the expectation, that we want everybody else in the organization to share, “How are things looking from your perspective? Senior Engineer 1.

Engineering 58

Engineering Leadership Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 58

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 9, 2020

Differences in design principles between product and engineering management (1:35). How Rich helps marketers/sales develop a more useful frame for engineering (10:01). The culture gap between sales and development/product teams (21:46). Where does product management fit between sales and development?

Weak Development Team 59

Weak Development Team Marketing Development Software Review 59

Netlify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

After her work as an engineering manager at a number of technology companies she has emerged as a leading voice in strategies for UI frameworks and architectures. Renowned for her work on improving the web platform, Nicole pioneered approaches to architecting performant and maintainable CSS with OOCSS (Object Oriented CSS).

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Conference Technical Cofounder Web Development Serverless 8

James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I was originally approached by an engineering manager at a company with several hundred engineers and about 45 software teams. The manager was looking for someone to lead a small team. The engineering manager found my thoughts about scaling insightful, so he introduced me to his VP of Engineering.

Agile 103

Agile How To Weak Development Team Part-Time VPE 103

Netlify

MARCH 30, 2020

When there are less moving parts, it’s not just more clear what the testing strategy is, but also how much coverage the tests offer. On some teams, this duty falls more to the Engineer Manager or Product Manager. Large PRs mean there are more potential side effects and moving parts.

How To 142

How To Software Review Weak Development Team Testing 142

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

APRIL 5, 2020

In our first episode of Breaking 404 , a podcast bringing to you stories and unconventional wisdom from engineering leaders of top global organizations around the globe, we caught up with Ajay Sampat , Sr. Engineering Manager, Lyft to understand the challenges that engineering teams across domains face while tackling large user traffic.

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Engineering Management Engineering Mobile Culture 190

Algolia

APRIL 1, 2019

Role of the Engineering and Product Managers. At Algolia, each team has one product manager and one engineering manager. By booking time in advance for all involved, we managed to have everyone working on key parts of the project and create momentum. Don’t add time, reduce scope.

Software Review 49

Software Review Product Management Engineering Engineering Management 49

Gitprime

APRIL 13, 2019

He was the VP of Engineering at Stitch Fix, Director of Engineering for the Google App Engine, the CTO and cofounder of Shoplilly, and the Chief Engineer at eBay, among other leadership positions. Utilize managers to make their teams as productive as possible. Incorporate product managers into the team.

Organization 81

Organization Technology Minimum Viable Product Part-Time VPE 81

scruminc

JANUARY 26, 2022

Overall, John Deere depends on a complex network of thousands of suppliers from around the globe to build industry-leading John Deere products. . Jay Strief, the Group Engineering Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, connects this success in part to managing through supply chain issues and puts it in personal terms. “The

SCRUM 98

SCRUM Agile Technical Review Analytics 98

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Product management and prioritization are all about cutting away, they’re all about subtracting. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working.

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