Pivotal Labs
New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Denver
(we support relocation)
Pivotal Labs works closely with founders, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and customers to ensure the right product is defined, prioritized, and built. We believe great products are built by great teams, and are followers of Agile (XP), Lean and Balanced Team philosophies.
I'm a Managing Director at Labs -- send me a cover letter/resume at gsiener [at] pivotal.io
Pivotal Labs
New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Denver
(we support relocation)
Job Title: Senior Product Manager (Consultant)
Pivotal Labs now offers Product Management services to our clients. We serve as interim product managers for clients who are looking to build successful products quickly. We work closely with founders, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and customers to ensure the right product is defined, prioritized, and built.
===Responsibilities:
- Partner with clients to understand client goals and product vision
- Collaborate with the developers and designers to prioritize, plan, and deliver working software
- Enable clients to practice agile development and lean methodologies
Pivotal Labs - New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, Toronto
Job Title: Senior Product Manager (Consultant)
Pivotal Labs now offers Product Management services to our clients. We serve as interim product managers for clients who are looking to build successful products quickly. We work closely with founders, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and customers to ensure the right product is defined, prioritized, and built.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with clients to understand client goals and product vision
- Collaborate with the developers and designers to prioritize, plan, and deliver working software
- Enable clients to practice agile development and lean methodologies
- Help improve the product practice at Pivotal Labs
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Ability to work collaboratively with others
- Ability to navigate complex decision making
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Previous success working with an agile development team
- Experience with defining and prioritizing product features
- Background in design or software development a plus
I'm the Director of Product Management at Labs -- send me a cover letter/resume at [email protected]
Pivotal Labs has spent the last two years building a Product Management practice, and we're looking for people that want to focus on the craft of shaping a product. I run the practice and am committed to bringing a Lean focus to two decades of amazing Agile development.
Check out poncho.is which launched recently from betaworks. They do this (It's warmer than yesterday) and it's been really helpful for the confused nyc seasons we're getting.
We developed that at Pivotal Labs since we need to pay attention to licenses while working w/ our clients. Just connect your repos, add licenses to your whitelist, and get updates if you're not in compliance. Feedback welcome!
FYI the software behind the "information radiator" is actually something we wrote at Pivotal, Project Monitor. We open sourced it, so you can check out the repo here to get started:
https://github.com/pivotal/projectmonitor/
I'm the PM so feel free to shoot any questions/complaints/feedback my way.
Code Climate has been great for explaining tech debt and security to my clients. It shifts the conversation from begging for time to justifying a healthy dose of refactoring.
I had this issue as well. My hacky workaround was to add the version to the Gemfile, bundle update rails, remove the version from Gemfile, then bundle update rails again (to remove the hardcoded version in the lockfile).
I've used similar, standalone services and also built my own, but I'm excited to try Mixpanels' offering because it's already integrated into the tracking.
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This would be a great bash addition for anyone that sshs into servers all day. Just as some people color their console red in production or green for staging, this would be a nice indicator of where you were.
http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-stra...