Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Management Science. One emotion that often defines work is stress.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

Let’s dive deeper into the way our new features work. Team Management: A Solution for Software Development and Agile Squads We’re proud to introduce this new feature that allows you to group your resource pool into teams. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.). back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

A recent article by Sam Walker in the Wall Street Journal argues that better managers are the key to delivering better results. Walker cites research by Gallup showing that the quality of middle managers determines 70% of the variance between high-performing and low-performing companies. Cambridge Engineering in St.

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Progressus

MARCH 1, 2024

A common area of confusion lies in distinguishing between Project Management and Project Accounting software. The Power of Project Management Software: Project Management software is engineered to assist teams in organizing, tracking, and completing projects efficiently.

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Girard Training Solutions

MARCH 4, 2024

As more Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines and apps enter the scene of modern management, leaders find themselves both excited and apprehensive about the potential influence bots can have over their jobs. How do you know when you need to leverage AI in management or bring your human qualities to a situation?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Yes, the Computer Science curriculum had several required Hardware Engineering classes. And, the managers? Management Is About People.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

One of my fellow participants was Dianna, a quality engineering consultant who seemed like she already knew me when I met her. I could tell from meeting Dianna how brilliant she is as an engineer. She coaches product development engineers about awareness and use of quality and reliability methods during the design development process.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. These are delays due to management decision time.). Manage your environment or culture. Manage Your Environment. See Manage Your Project Portfolio.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development?

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Epicflow

JUNE 12, 2023

There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Project management in aerospace engineering deals with large-scale complex initiatives that require perfect coordination between all the parties involved. In addition, typical project management challenges such as resource conflicts, uncertainty, changing requirements, etc. Challenges in Aerospace Engineering Projects.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 29, 2022

In this article, I will break down a few functionalities of Human Resource teams, and a couple of ways to get started in Human Resource Management. Within HR management, there are three main functions to be aware of. For example, in many technology companies software engineers are organized in a leveling structure. Compensation.

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Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 12, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Engineers as Rock Stars. Productivity. (6). Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. at 7:37 AM.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The middle managers—the directors—often reflect layers in the architecture.

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Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. Your manager and organization structure may spend extra time with you, because you are one of their first APM hires.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. By forcing the engineers to understand the problems faced the warranty department, car designs became more reliable and cheaper to fix.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

In that case, you have a low need for product innovation. Products that keep the lights on or extend a product's capabilities, but do not transform the organization's capabilities. Even if you do encounter technical problems, agile approaches help manage those problems with short project feedback loops.

Productivity 60

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2020

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” ” They're attempting to manage their technical and schedule risk with two-week iterations. And, they're trying to show finished product , not simulations. You can build the product in minutes or less.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

That often creates a problem: great technical people become insufficient managers. Let's not blame these people—many of them didn't want to become managers However, if people want more responsibility, the career ladder often forces people into management. Note that the Senior engineer might influence the entire team.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. In this article, we’ll explore the most significant digitalization challenges that aerospace engineering companies face and outline the ways to address them. Digital twin.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2023

LLMs are closer to prediction engines rather than AI, but I digress.) I didn't give them permission to scrape my site and use the results in their product. Product Development Implications If you write and integrate words from LLMs, make sure you verify each and every “fact.”

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sanctions or not, NASA uses Russian-made engines to propel rockets. Yesterday, just seconds after takeoff, a NASA Antares rocket with a Russian-made engine exploded on takeoff. Orbital is under particular pressure to explain whether its use of ageing Russian rocket engines to power the first stage of the Antares rocket was a factor.

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Engineering Video Report System 74

Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For example, if I’m terrible at engineering, but I collaborate with an exceptional engineer, my personal weakness is irrelevant. The top software developer doesn’t always become VP of engineering. The late Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple, was a brilliant visionary and product guy. Unsubscribe at any time.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 16, 2019

Their organizations treat the software people (IT or Engineering) as a shared service. While the organization might use products and product lines, the software people work in projects. I've said in the past that as soon as we have more work than teams to do the work, we need to switch from one product to another.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 2, 2023

Once you’ve been an individual contributor, often the only way to progress further in your career is to manage people. The only way to get promoted beyond a small management role is to be extremely effective at delivering results through other people’s labor and efforts. The latter enables the former.

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Epicflow

MARCH 16, 2023

According to Gartner , by 2030, 80% of project managers’ tasks will be run by AI, powered by big data, machine learning (ML), and natural language processing. This statement was perceived as a threat to project managers, whose job was supposed to be undertaken by AI-driven project management software. But is this really so?

Management 52

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine. Carbon Credits.

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Nash Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

You’re an excellent engineer/IT professional/accountant/[choose your own adventure]…we’re going to reward you by promoting you to a management role. Welcome to management. The second is that there really aren’t any specialized skills related to being a good manager. Congratulations! Good luck!” Again, untrue.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 19, 2019

In technology and software companies, there are product management (PM) and product marketing management (PMM) roles. They both focus on a product, so how do they divide the tasks that need to be done? The PMs are facing engineers, whereas the PMMs are facing customers or salesmen.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here. How would you measure that?

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 22, 2019

When it comes to managing your career, you need to be aware of your own weaknesses. You need to make a strategic choice to either be a high-level individual contributor (such as a product architect or distinguished engineer with no direct reports) or invest energy in improving your people skills so it doesn’t hold you back.

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