Ask HN: Does PPP (Parity Pricing) work for one-time digital products?
4 months ago
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- #soft-skills
- #engineering-management
- A text-based flight simulator for practicing difficult conversations in leadership roles.
- Engineering leaders often fail due to people decisions, not technical ones.
- Scenarios include handling a VP assigning work directly to your team and managing underperforming engineers.
- Benefits of practicing with the simulator: negotiate trade-offs effectively, gain respect from superiors, and advance in your career.
- The simulator provides a safe environment to fail and learn without real-world consequences.
- Real-world scenarios modeled after incidents in high-growth startups.
- Instant feedback on empathy and clarity after each session.
- Useful for new tech leads, EM interviews, and senior EMs training first-time tech leads.
- Scenarios are stress-tested by CTOs and Senior Engineering Managers to ensure realism.
- Books and traditional roleplay are less effective compared to the simulator's interactive approach.