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Why Product Managers Should not Report to the CTO

Mind the Product

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. Why Shouldn’t a CTO be the Boss? So if they report to the CTO it creates the impression of bias against the business and user. How can CTOs Help? If you’re a CTO, what can you do to help your product managers?

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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016).

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. The premise is that we’re starting with an outcome.

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Beats, Bootstrapping and Life – Mat Clayton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Quote of the Episode.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. About the Conference: Mind the Product events are the go-to places for meeting other product managers and honing your product craft. The conference is single-track, one day with close to 4.5 INDUSTRY, The Product Conference. ProductCon, San francisco, cA. Mind the Product.

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The Unintentional Career of John Cutler

Mind the Product

He writes, he tweets, he regularly speaks at conferences, and with 31,000 Twitter followers (not to mention 26,000 followers to his Medium blog ), he’s a prolific and consistent voice in the study and development of the product management craft. . ” Being a Trusted Expert. ” Being a Trusted Expert.

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Joel Spolsky – FogCreek, Trello, Stack Overflow, HASH and Business of Software

Business of Software Conference

Joel Spolsky at the Business of Software Conference. Joel Spolksy, Neil Davidson, Dharmesh Shah and others, explain the thinking behind Business of Software Conference. Congratulations to the team for another notable exit. To The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange Talk Page. One Final Share. Upcoming Events. BoS Conf Online.Fall.

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