What’s the sprint planning cadence and release frequency in sprint teams at Google? #google Do they have sprints every 2 weeks and release every 4 weeks? What is the timeframe of OKR planning/goals? Do Product Managers lead sprint grooming, estimation, retros and demos? Which of these roles are dr...Read more
I thought it would be interesting to do a poll on whether people use their company’s not so popular products. If you are from a big enough company or you are from a small company in your industry we all have underdog products that we root for as an employee, or have even worked hard on. Do you use ...Read more
Hello all, I am a current graduate student and i am about to interview for a Tech Product Management MBA Internship for Summer 2022 with Walmart Global Tech (Sunnyvale, CA). Please share your insights on how the interviews could be and what kind of questions could be asked. I am sharing the breakup ...Read more
Seriously. I would like to understand this more. ICs have tickets moving across a sprint board and retro sessions to talk about what happened during a sprint. But MGMT work is never talked about, just occasional "can you get me this information before X when I need to meet with {{DIRECTOR}}" I PRO...Read more
Swe A and B, each have a product to deliver. A finished his work by working hard, is now “free” till the next sprint B isn’t as fast, took some vacation last sprint, suddenly his product is only 3 days away from a launch, now constantly mentions that he need help You:
A lot of people at doordash hired during Covid were upset about the WeDash requirement for SWEs to do mandatory dashes to learn the product, so Tony has agreed this morning that random full time dashers will be placed on SWE teams for one sprint cycle per month to “learn the product” that they use. ...Read more
the guy literally just sits there and plays on his phone and watches gym videos. he scheduled 4 recurring meetings retro refinement standup and sprint planning. just joins the meetings and sits there quiety then goes home. i work 12 hour days creating okrs talking to irate customers and finding pr...Read more
I understand you have competing products, but why do you have to copy the exact same 6 values from each other: Brex: * Dream big * One Brex * Inspire customer love * Ownership * Growth mindset * Impatient optimism Ramp: * Think big * Put the team first * We feel for our customers * We are all ow...Read more
Joined for about 1 year, I've observed the team culture differs significantly from my previous work experiences. Here are some: 1. Limited Communication in the Team's Public Slack Channel: In the team of 12 engineers, it's rare to see messages in the public Slack channel. Perhaps only 1 to 2 messag...Read more
Our product owner only even attends our sprint review. None of us developers is clear on the direction of the product and what the goals are in the near and long term. What do these product ppl actually do??!! This guy always has his skype red..
Wasting my time to do anything, like creating a ticket, assigning epic, adding to a sprint An unbelievably poor engineering product. Anyone know?
Anyone has completed the sprint and collab boot camp from the course? Wast it helpful and worth it? #productmanager #product #pm
so we have a sprint retro where each of us has to say "1 good thing that you did last sprint" (yes our retros are that moronic). then a dude said "I'm very pleased that *we* got feature X done for our product". feature X is done by another team member and me. The entire team including management w...Read more
2YoE as a Graphic Designer 2YoE as an UX Designer at start-up 3mo Internship at Salesforce company Worked as a freelancer for a variety of UX related projects, have experience directing sprints, managing whole products and communicating with marketing teams and programmers to align goals in a horiz...Read more
Do product people value designers doing discovery work like design sprints and other exercises? Is it viewed favorably in your company or is it viewed as design theater? TC 160K | YOE 7+ Years | Lead Product Designer
I have recently been added as a squad lead. It has come to my attention that this is only because the two most tenured engineers have decided that 1. They wanted to start squads 2. One of the two engineers did not want the responsibility. I am the next in-line on the team with the most knowledge. I ...Read more
Our SM only clicks on the start new sprint, close sprint buttons and just puts a lot of pressure on 5he devs to deliver something with in the same sprint. Other than that they don't do much. Our PO is next level, he doesn't know the business logic of the product from business perspective. Anytime we...Read more
And the sad part is that they promote and encourage people from IT service background over someone who has worked in product based companies throughout their career. And these mediocre and talentless managers actually insult engineers during sprint meetings. This behaviour is very different than pro...Read more
According to Pichai, the Simplicity Sprint is a collective, all-hands-on-deck type initiative to crowdsource ideas for quicker product development and productivity. A company wide survey will go out and stay live until August 15th. There will be three questions: - What would help you work with ...Read more
Feature development in my company is not 100% agile but does follow two weeks sprint which consists of development (by developers), testing (by QA) and UAT (Product/Stakeholder). I have noticed most of the times, Development and QA activities take majority of the sprint and push stories to UAT tow...Read more