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🌟 **Lessons from Steve Jobs for My Journey as a Software/Product Engineer Manager** 🌟 As a Steve Jobs historian, I often reflect on the profound impact he had on the tech landscape and how his insights have shaped my own journey as a software/product engineer. Here are some key lessons I carry with me every day: 1. **Focus on User Experience**: I believe that technology should be intuitive and user-friendly. I prioritize empathy in my designs, striving to understand users’ needs and pain points to create software that truly resonates with them. 2. **Embrace Innovation**: Jobs once said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” I challenge myself not just to keep up with trends but to set them. I experiment, take risks, and push the boundaries of what's possible. 3. **Pursue Perfection**: Attention to detail is crucial in my work. I aim for excellence in my code, design, and processes because, as Jobs put it, “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” 4. **Collaborate and Communicate**: I understand that great products come from great teams. I foster collaboration and clear communication within my team, valuing the power of diverse perspectives to achieve visionary outcomes. 5. **Stay Passionate**: Jobs' enthusiasm for technology inspires me. I strive to find what I love in software engineering and let that passion fuel my work. As he famously said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” 6. **Think Different**: I remind myself not to be afraid to think outside the box. Jobs challenged conventional wisdom, and I embrace creativity in my approach. My unique perspective could lead to the next breakthrough innovation. In an era defined by rapid change, the spirit of Jobs continues to inspire me to not only create but to create meaningfully. I strive to honor his legacy by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. What lessons from Steve Jobs do you carry into your work? #SteveJobs #SoftwareEngineering #Innovation #UserExperience #TechLeadership #ThinkDifferent

Finding the right resources to make the business of managing product (sometimes products) seamless for you and the team, can be daunting. Thanks to Product School, here is some clarity to guide you through. Cheers! #product #management #technicaldocumentation #templates #resources #PM

Product managers wear many hats, and navigating the technical side of product development is crucial. But fear not! Having a solid understanding of key technical documents empowers you to collaborate effectively with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders. 💡 Here are the 5 most important technical documents for product managers, along with some helpful resources to find free templates. 📃 #productmanagement #productinterviews #hiring #tech #pm #pmschool #b2c #b2b #fintech #startup #marketing #data #technicaldocument

Software Basics for Non-Tech Aspiring Product Managers 🎉🚀 Understanding software development is crucial for non-technical aspiring product managers to collaborate effectively with technical teams. This series covers the essential concepts of software engineering, requirements analysis, design, and testing, helping you build a solid foundation for your career. Let’s dive in and explore these exciting topics! 🌟 Register now: 📚PML Community : https://lnkd.in/eyeezxqT ,Free Monthly PM Books & More 🎉 Join now WhatsApp (PML) community🌈 https://lnkd.in/eCQDNMzV 🌟 Unit 1: Software Engineering and Its Models 🌟https://lnkd.in/gis7CU2d 🌟 Unit 2: Principles of Software Requirements Analysis 🌟📝 The "Principles of Software Requirements Analysis" document is a fantastic resource for understanding the core concepts and methodologies involved in software requirements analysis. By effectively gathering, analyzing, and documenting software requirements, we can ensure the successful development of software systems that meet user needs and business objectives. 🚀 Key Points: Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs): 📊 DFDs provide a visual representation of how data flows through a system, helping us understand system processes at various levels of detail. Functional Requirements: Clearly defining functional requirements is crucial to understanding the specific tasks and behaviors the system must perform. 🎯 Software Metrics: 📈 Using software metrics allows us to quantify software quality attributes, aiding in achieving system objectives while minimizing costs and maximizing quality. Prototyping Techniques: 🛠️ Employing rapid prototyping techniques can accelerate the development of prototypes, enabling early feedback and iterative refinement. System Modeling: 🏗️ Creating system models helps us analyze system functionality and identify potential issues. Simplifying assumptions can be used to manage complexity while preserving critical factors. Challenges in Requirements Analysis: 🚧 Uncovering complete requirements, especially in automated processes, can be challenging, often complicating the initial stages of project development. By understanding and applying these principles, we can effectively conduct software requirements analysis, leading to the development of high-quality software systems that align with user needs and business goals. 💪 #PML #Productmanager #PO #Prodcutowner #BA #SoftwareEngineering #RequirementsEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #ProductManagement

Developer ➡️ Engineer ➡️ Product Engineer While a role title and description is very specific to a company. However transitioning from a developer to an engineer and further to a product engineer represents a significant mindset evolution. As you start to understand how business connects to tech at a deeper level, you gradually cultivate distinctive skills, such as: • 🔄 Adapting thinking processes to suit both short and long-term challenges, depending on the problem and its context. • 👥 Prioritizing tasks by considering user personas, their pain points, and the impact on the business. • 💡 Improving existing features and even conceptualizing new ones, while assessing their ramifications across various departments. • 💼 A robust feeling of accountability. All these gives you a super power 💪 to Ideate ➡️ Analyse ➡️ Build #software #engineer #product #business

The Demand for Product Engineers is rising since 2021... Searches for this particular role are increased by 80%, In the last 2 years. - Glimpse Report. The Role sounds familiar? Product engineers mainly sits at the intersection of "Software Engineers - People who love to write code" & "Product Managers - People who love to build great products". Defining this role would be a Software engineer who cares about the Product and end-user experience, more than a traditional engineer. I realised this factor almost 2 years ago, and since then we at HKS TechLabs made a shift around it. Instead of just wrapping code into nice-looking UI's and delivering, we started to actually understand more about the client's business, as well as their competitors. During our discovery session with clients, along with the technical details i.e: The tech stack, Requirements, technical goals etc. We also dive into questions like: 👉 What problem you solve for users? 👉 What your users pay you for? 👉 Who are you competitors and what they offer better than you on the table? This helps us to jump right into our clients and their target users shoes. Did that helped us? Ofcourse, YES!. Here's how this shift helped us WIN: ✅ - We help Client's choose the best and the most familiar User experience for their platform. ✅ - We help them identify the features they might be missing and instead their competitors are doing. ✅ - The features we developed for the internal softwares, are mostly loved by the client's internal teams. With all those nice results we saw, we look forward to continuously improve this approach and understand more of the client's side of things, to be good at building user-centric products. What's your secret sauce to put the service closer to the business, Share in comments. #productdevelopment hashtag #softwaredevelopment hashtag #ycombinator

Those in tech are grabbing all the remote jobs and earning in dollars! Well, maybe not every remote job, but you catch my drift. If you want to transition to a career in tech, but coding is not your thing, there are options like product design, product management, and product sales you may wish to consider. I opted for product management, and ProductDive has been a huge help in getting me there! #mondaymotivation #productmanagement #productmanager #product #5daysLinkedInchallenge #productdive #ppmatproductdive

Manager/Senior Mgr - R&D Product Development - Chief Technology Officer Organization Location: Phoenix, AZ Duration; 12+ Months Contract Description The Chief Technology Officer Organization's vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization. This position will act as a strategic partner and advisor in terms of technology, innovation, intellectual property, know-how, organizational technical core competency, R&D strategy, product commercialization, and program execution. This role works closely with strategic product, technology and venture partners to define the needs being addressed in each R&D program and deliver the concepts, capabilities, designs, and plans to meet these needs. This role will also ensure that R&D projects are delivered on time, in budget and that the products meet specifications. On any given day, you might: • Collaborate with key Product, Business, and Technical partners to identify, understand, and prioritize key product needs in the backlog based on impact, complexity, cost and demand. • Drive and empower experimentation with emerging technologies including GenAl, with tooling, frameworks, guardrails, models and environments. • Delivers a robust roadmap of useful capabilities to meet the needs of the R&D team as well as partners who rely on the group for early stage technologies. • Navigate and understand a complex and rapidly evolving technology space with an open mind, creative problem solving skills, and a bias for early action. • Operationalize and monitor key change management activities to ensure pilots and experiments are meeting targets. • Partner across the organization to lead R&D efforts and processes in acquiring an in-depth understanding of the customer needs, and applying both strategic and tactical methods to stay on top of the evolving trends in the competitive landscape. • Act as both a strategic problem solver and architect for the future technology and capability needs of CTO R&D to implement business strategy. • Drive continuous organizational and leadership development to enable R&D growth. Minimum Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, or Engineering. • At least 6 years of project management, product management and/or leadership experience in technology roles. • A deep understanding of the FinTech industry generally. • Proven track record building, launching and driving products through the lifecycle. • Ability to bring innovative thinking couples with practical execution to solve multi-dimensional issues. • Demonstrated leadership and management experience in working with cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams on complex projects. • Highly focused on delivering products that meet the needs of patients and customers. Share your resumes to jani.usitrecruiter@gmail.com

Here's an interview I did sharing my thoughts and experiences of Product Management.

🧵 Is an Engineering Background Really Necessary for Product Management? Product management is about solving problems, understanding users, and delivering impactful solutions. Yet, many companies today list engineering degrees as mandatory for PM roles. This makes me wonder: 👉 If tech-giants like Google say engineering isn’t essential for PMs, why do others insist on it? 👉 Why do hiring filters favor degrees over hands-on experience? 👉 Can’t deep product experience make up for the lack of an engineering background? Some of the best PMs in the world don’t come from technical fields. They’ve excelled by leading with empathy, strategy, and a user-first mindset, not coding skills. But lately, more job postings are raising barriers by requiring technical credentials, limiting opportunities for talented professionals from diverse paths. x While technical knowledge can help, it shouldn’t define a good PM. Companies should focus on relevant experience, proven results, and problem-solving skills over rigid degree requirements. What do you think? Should engineering degrees be a must-have for PMs, or is it time to rethink this approach? Let’s discuss! 👇 #productmanagement #product #pm