In a professional work environment successfully communicating with your product manager (PM) is just as important as writing clean, maintainable & working code. If you promise to have a feature built in three days & then spend a week building it without updating your PM, you leave her at a loss on what to tell business stakeholders about product deadlines.
Sometimes there are roadblocks to progress -- youre dependent on work from an external team or you find something unexpected in the code base. How do you keep your product manager informed and/or use her as an ally to overcome roadblocks? What does your product manager need to manage the expectations of stakeholders?
On the planning side how can you get buy in from your product manager to allocate time to technical debt? Is there a way to communicate technical debt so that it aligns with product needs? Will reducing technical debt improve performance or allow you to roll out new features more quickly?
Depending on your organization, your product manager will often contribute to the feedback you receive in performance reviews. Managing her expectations, communicating progress clearly & making her your ally are critical to your success.
The panelists for this event will share their experiences as engineers & product managers & let us know whats worked & what hasnt worked for them when collaborating on cross-functional teams.
Chrissy Fleming
Product Lead at VTS
Chrissy manages a team of Product Managers at VTS, a commercial real estate SAAS. She honed her skills across diverse industries by leading cross-functional teams at Meetup, Gilt Groupe, Patch (AOL), & Snap Interactive. Chrissy came to product management with two degrees in opera performance, which she can convince you is totally relevant to a career in technology.
Alisha McWilliams
Developer at CipherHealth
Alisha is a software developer currently working on a digital nurse rounding application for CipherHealth. Alishas career path wasnt direct; she majored in communications & tried careers in library science & account management before a friend encouraged her to make the switch to coding.
Yasi Razvan
Product Manager at Vimeo
Yasi is a Product Manager at Vimeo working on the OTT video distribution platform. Prior to Vimeo, she worked on product teams at Bitly, HowAboutWe, & Samsungs research division. Yasi's path to product began with an Asian Studies degree, government technology consulting, & data engineering.
Lauren Sperber
Senior Software Engineer at MailChimp
Prior to joining MailChimp last month, Lauren was a senior software engineer at Etsy & Nava PBC. Before becoming an engineer, she worked as a product manager at outside.in, a hyperlocal news startup that was acquired by AOL & merged into Patch, where she also PMed. Lauren has two degrees in Literature & started working in technology by accident after sitting next to a web marketing content team at a temping gig.
Our hosts:
Movable Ink is one of the fastest growing technology companies in New York City. We ranked in the 2017 5000 as the 13th fastest growing, growth-stage company in the US.
What does Movable Ink do?
We created a new digital marketing category called intelligent content. Why? We believe that content is at the heart of great marketing experiences. Our software enables email marketers to personalize content at the moment of open, creating better customer experiences & driving stronger results. Our technology powers innovative campaigns for the worlds most iconic brands including Wall Street Journal, Spotify, Gap, & Delta Airlines.
