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Fine-tuning User Retention: Moving Beyond ‘One Size Fits All’ Approach

Posted on August 8, 2023 by estebanf

You’ve heard the age-old adage, “Not all customers are created equal.” Indeed, this truth takes center stage when it comes to retention – the practice of retaining satisfied customers over time.

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The Art of Product Management: Soft Skills and Win-Win Negotiations

Posted on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 by estebanf

In the ever-evolving landscape of product management, the significance of technical prowess is often emphasized. However, the core of effective product management lies in the mastery of soft skills and the ability to negotiate win-win situations.

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Traits of a great IT leader

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 by estebanf

I’ve shared about how to be trusted by your engineers  and how to find out what matters to them but what about the leader itself.

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A combined framework for feature prioritization

Posted on March 9, 2021March 12, 2021 by estebanf

When leading products you will find yourself balancing the scarcity of time, budget, and capacity against a probably too large and growing list of potential features.

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The who, what and how of leading successful engineering teams

Posted on March 2, 2021August 5, 2023 by estebanf

Leading a team, it is always an exciting and challenging experience. Add to the mix that the team is sitting in different time zones, and you find yourself up to quite a ride.

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GCP Serverless NLP processing vs AWS

Posted on February 23, 2021 by estebanf

In the past I had the opportunity to use some of the NLP capabilities available in Amazon Comprehend. This time I wanted to give it a shoot at Google Cloud Platform and try some of the features offered in Google Natural Language.

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The right choice between message queues and event streaming

Posted on January 13, 2021January 22, 2021 by estebanf

Should you go after ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ or similar? What about Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc.…? Your choice, as all of them, will have consequences so you want to be as sure as possible before committing.

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Top 5 to be trusted by your engineers

Posted on December 5, 2020January 22, 2021 by estebanf

Software engineers are a special breed. They are architects and builders of the digital world which it is the center of the modern world reality. They not only tend to be smart but have immense passion for what they do and strong opinions about how they do it.

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Choosing between graph databases vs RDBMS

Posted on November 19, 2020January 26, 2021 by estebanf

Graph databases excel that will benefit of treating relationships are first class citizens and handling complex data structures. Still, it is hard to ignore the maturity, reliability and talent availability for traditional RDBMS which make the decision harder to make.

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Achieving a co-creation environment for product discover

Posted on November 10, 2020January 22, 2021 by estebanf

In traditional environments products evolve out of a multitude of projects. Projects have teams organized with clear hierarchies that create distance between members responsibilities:

  • The product manager gathers requirements from stakeholders.
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  • The who, what and how of leading successful engineering teams
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