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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. Being a product manager is no longer being a developer by another name. How can CTOs Help?

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What “Product-Led” Looks Like in 2023

ProductPlan

This is especially true for companies where product didn’t have its own independent seat at the executive conference table. So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers. Consider it the price of leadership.

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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Cross-functional leadership. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. And what the difference is.

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Building A Billion Dollar Business – Managing Objectives Against Rapid Growth | Poppy Gustafsson | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace. Sketchnote.

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How I Use Gainsight PX as a SaaS CEO

Gainsight

Yet for many cloud CEOs, the only part of their business that they are the most blind about is the aspect that’s most existential to being a software company—namely the product. I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature.

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What are the best product management conferences and events?

DISQO

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Details on Code Conference 2016 will be announced later this year.

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