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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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Software architecture insights: interview with Eoin Woods

Apiumhub

People interpret the role differently, but in my opinion they are to understand stakeholder needs, take responsibility for achieving the quality attributes of the system, and to provide technical leadership. What are the key software architecture metrics? What are the key software architecture attributes?

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Advice from 3 Engineering Leaders on Becoming a Manager of Managers

Gitprime

Rich Archbold , Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom; Charity Majors , CTO at Honeycomb.io, and Ian Nowland , VP, Engineering – Metrics and Alerts at Datadog came together to share their own experiences of making that transition, what they look for in future managers of managers, and what makes the work so rewarding for them.

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Sequencing Architecture Modernization: Risk Averse vs Risk Tolerant

Strategic Tech

If the initiative is tied to improvements or certain business metrics or OKRs, this can help to get a sense of the value. If you’re not sure where to start, talk to product leaders directly or review company townhall presentation. Having a quantifiable number. Usual caveats apply regarding the quality of those numbers.

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10 Leading Books on Social Business

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The book explores social strategy, governance, tools, and metrics with a healthy dose of real-world case studies. Readers are given a detailed tour of the people, process, and technology shifts needed to succeed with plenty of details. Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Long acquisition programs also insure that nobody in the acquisition system is personally responsible for failure because a Program Manager’s (PM) 3-4-year leadership tour only covers a portion of the full requirement-to-IOC (Initial Operational Capability) timeline. Strong Technical Leadership. Passive Oversight.

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Why give a conference talk (or, why give a Postgres talk)

The Citus Data

I once interviewed a principal architect, Min Wei, who works on the team at Microsoft who manages all the Windows diagnostic metrics used to measure the quality of new software builds. Depending on what your talk is about, your talk might help people discover whatever it is that you’re working on—and they might become customers.