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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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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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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

Agile Conference, IEEE Conference Publications (2009): 333-337. He is a West Point graduate, former fighter pilot and cancer researcher, as well as CTO of eleven different software companies. This translates to faster delivery, greater customer satisfaction, and higher team happiness and motivation. References. Jakobsen, C.R.

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Online conferences are different

Business of Software Conference

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. Online has to be different.

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Zerodha CTO, Kailash Nadh on building and scaling the Zerodha way

NextBigWhat

In this deep community cast, Zerodha’s CTO, Kailash shares it all in conversation with Ashish Sinha. While the world is going gaga over number of engineers, Zerodha builds and scales with.well just a handful of engineers. 33 member team powering the country’s largest stock brokerage platform! How do you think cos.

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How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar

NextBigWhat

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. The post How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar appeared first on NextBigWhat. Key takeaways Figure out how to earn money every time a […].