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(Part 6/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

(Part 5/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

(Part 4/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

(Part 3/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

(Part 2/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

(Part 1/6) I had an opportunity to chat with Magali Pelissier , Product Management Leader at Cisco, about her latest book: "Future-Proofing Product Management: A Guide to Current Trends and Beyond", and it made for a very exciting conversation. You can find the book ⁠here⁠ . Magali's podcast, "Product Perspectives", can be found on ⁠Apple⁠ & ⁠Spotify⁠ . For more details, check out Magali's ⁠we...

I stumbled into an ⁠ article written by Melissa Kwan recently where the author had listed a number of challenges in bootstrapping a SaaS Startup, and as someone who runs a Startup with both B2C and B2B products, some of the points resonated well with me. I figured it might be worth sharing my perspective on some of the items mentioned in the article, and draw the parallels to our experiences. #sno...

(Part 2) 2 podcast collaborations in - time to share a few thoughts! My first podcast was with ⁠Matthew Davidchuk⁠ , a brilliant engineer. And no surprises - 90 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better engineer. My second podcast was with ⁠Magali Pelissier⁠ , a brilliant product leader. And no surprises again - 120 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better product manager. (The podcasts a...

(Part 1) 2 podcast collaborations in - time to share a few thoughts! My first podcast was with ⁠Matthew Davidchuk⁠ , a brilliant engineer. And no surprises - 90 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better engineer. My second podcast was with ⁠Magali Pelissier⁠ , a brilliant product leader. And no surprises again - 120 minutes later, I walked out a slightly better product manager. (The podcasts a...

Scalability isn't limited to applications in production. No matter what you do, you want to ensure that it is a scalable approach. Short of it, the exact same activity is going to take a lot longer. Besides, what's interesting is that making even tiny changes to your approach tends to go a long way in enhancing overall productivity. In this podcast, I'll share the approach we took to port hundreds...

And are you doing more of it? Here's my take on a Venn Diagram you've most likely seen that illustrates the implications of our career choices beautifully. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

It is one thing to provide an ETA for any given task, but it is completely another to provide a meaningful, reasonably accurate, and accountable ETA. Ask for ETAs but take them with a grain of salt. Focus more on solving the problem efficiently and less on the actual time it will take to solve that. #projectmanagement Manage your projects on  https://snowpal.com . Keep it simple.

If you want to learn the theoretical differences between these terms, you are better off checking it out on the web. Just do a search and you'll find a lot of hits. But, if you want to get a sense of the more practical differences, and how you should apply it in the context of your specific project, then you may want to give this podcast a listen. #projectmanagement Manage your projects on  https:...

Pitch has always supported a Linking feature that allows you to structure your content any which way you want (aka, create content once, use it any number of times). Relations is a new feature that is another feather on the cap, and it works beautifully whether you use it with Linking, or simply by itself. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

If you are starting to build a native mobile app and are a little unsure of how to proceed, this podcast (the first in this series) might offer you some guidance. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

Even if you've decided to build a cross-platform native mobile app, there are still a few decisions to be made. In this podcast, I discuss a tiny bit about React Native and Flutter (2 very popular frameworks). #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

If you are using MongoDB and an Object Data Modeling library like Mongoose, or Mongoid, you may find yourselves in situations where your queries are taking a little too long. Come Aggregations to your rescue! #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

Say, your team is working on a number of features, and there is a steady stream of Pull Requests at any given time. The likelihood and complexity of merge conflicts depends both on the size of your team, and the scope of your features. In this podcast, I discuss a few options to mitigate merge conflicts. #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

If you want complete control over your servers, you would choose (something like) Amazon EC2 and start with creating a new Machine Image. But, what if your interest primarily lied in building your app, and solving your user's problems ASAP, and you didn't want to spend much, if any, time on setting up and configuring servers? #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

When you get started on a new project, it is natural to feel a tad overwhelmed. After all, it may be a new team, new technology stack, new processes, and new business problems - so it is alright to feel a little restless. But there is a way to feel at home by the end of Day 1.   #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

If it takes you 5 minutes to test 10 lines of code, there is a problem. If it takes you 3 minutes to bounce your (local) server, and that's the only way for you to test your code, there is another problem.  #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

Whether you are joining a new team, or a new developer is joining your team, the expectation is quite the same - "a good quality codebase that will help us understand the product without having to bug the rest of the team". How can we work towards building such a codebase? #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

You cannot afford to make Backwards Compatibility an after thought. As your system grows, and your user base grows, you are going to continually add new features and services, and some of them will require fundamental changes to your semantics and data structure. Given that, backwards compatibility can get rather challenging but there are steps you can take to mitigate potential issues. #snowpal a...

(Part 1) Separation of concerns is important to keep your native mobile app modular and becomes especially important when your app integrates with 100s of APIs. You want to ensure that your app is resilient to changes to the API Spec.  #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com

(Part 2) Separation of concerns is important to keep your native mobile app modular and becomes especially important when your app integrates with 100s of APIs. You want to ensure that your app is resilient to changes to the API Spec.  #snowpal aws.snowpal.com learn.snowpal.com