Femgineer

We empower techies and provide courses and workshops to: educate, empower, and encourage professionals in the high-tech industry.

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Is your work not speaking up for itself but you know you deserve to level-up in your career? It's time to learn how to speak confidently and catapult your career! @kecatlin and @poornima will teach you how, even if you're shy, nervous, or introverted. https://t.co/SehP3SEHCs

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"Sometimes we're in a mixed audience... We don't necessarily want to bore the people who already know what we're saying, and we also don't want to talk down to the people who are beginners." @annejanzer https://t.co/hggxHTYS2G #publicspeaking #technicaltalk

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"You don't want to dumb down for people. You want to respect their intelligence, but you also have to remember someone at the conference just came out of three other sessions... and you need to help them reset." @annejanzer https://t.co/hggxHTYS2G #publicspeaking #technicaltalk

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Why do I really need to take an extra 30 seconds, one minute, PowerPoint slide, etcetera to explain this? Won't it seem like I'm "dumbing it down" for them? #publicspeaking #technicaltalks #communication Interview with @annejanzer https://t.co/hggxHTYS2G

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As part of every experiment, we wanted to end on a headline or major learnings and pain points that our users needed to be fixed. That kind of gave us a list that we could start with. #productmanagement https://t.co/8rrHfS84Ji

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How can people develop an awareness and can be sure they're headed in the right direction? Check out the interview with @betterallies @kecatlin https://t.co/stErFNEsko #inclusionintech #betterallies

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Myth: you need to keep growing your business to be successful. Truth: sometimes staying small is the best business strategy. Interview with @pjrvs https://t.co/FPQhEgGrF3 #tech #companyofone

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@poornima and @audsinthecity separate fact from fiction on the topic of #cryptocurrency #bitcoin and #blockchain Full interview: https://t.co/wyhyV3Z2MT

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"The important part was to not head down into coding and not come up for air." Interview with Lisa and Vera of @pivotal https://t.co/1fUkbZxhqp #productmanagement

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To get a feel for what our customers are really looking for, we did generative interviews, generated prototypes, and things like feature fakes and experiments with the existing products. #productmanagement Interview with Vera and Lisa @pivotal https://t.co/8rrHfS84Ji

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"I would just say if you're engineers, question what you're building and question your PMs"- Vera Reynolds, software engineer @pivotal https://t.co/1fUkbZxhqp

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Have to hold yourself and your team accountable? @pivtoal suggests a growth board comprised of stakeholders across different business organizations to help make decisions [to] pivot, persevere or kill the product. https://t.co/1fUkbZxhqp #productmanagement

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Lisa and Vera of @pivotal suggest thinking about it in terms of three spheres of influence: User, Business, and Engineering. Creating a balanced team isn't about specific roles ...it's that, at any given time, someone can weigh in for each of those areas. https://t.co/1fUkbZxhqp

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“People... have done things like study performance reviews...and found that there is gendered difference in how we give feedback to women versus men. Some of... the feedback that we give to women is more vague.” #allyship #inclusion @betterallies https://t.co/CexF80mjSp

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“Women can lean in all they want and all they can, but ...We really need to start looking at our workplaces and changing our workplaces.” #allyship @betterallies https://t.co/stErFNmRsQ #inclusion

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Growth and Scale of a company can get in the way of innovation. @pjrvs #companyofone #scalingacompany #innovationintech https://t.co/jCIx7YRuWF #tech

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"When everyone on the team is aware of the voice of the customer, everyone is super excited about what is going on [with the product]." @NikkiElizDemere and @femgineer interview https://t.co/e6iwr1qyYI #customerexperience #customersuccess

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“Putting on every single hat and then realizing I don’t like half those hats. Wouldn’t it be great if I didn’t have to do those things? ” @TwoSunTraders discusses what it's really like being a #freelancedeveloper https://t.co/ymNjvn3ePd

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Want to hire a #remoteteam, but aren't sure where to start? @hollyccc of @pixcphotos suggests hiring a #virtualassistant for starters. More tips: https://t.co/LFajJslyXL

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"Employees love it because it is flexible... they can live and travel and be wherever they want to. They can work the hours that they want to work." More benefits of #remotework https://t.co/JCvave6YtP

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Hiring sight unseen for a remote position and want the best candidate? Watch the interview with @hollyccc of @pixcphotos who hired, trained, and retains a large remote team. #remotework #hiringremote https://t.co/JCvave6YtP