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Is Product Management Under Fire?

The Product Coalition

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities. This isn’t ideal.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. When hiring a CFO (aka Head of Finance), they ask about previous experience managing cash flow, payroll, and accounts receivable teams.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan. Or have seniors on your team formally assigned to mentor the novices. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

Product Talk

Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance. The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

Userpilot

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. KPIs and success metrics to track Income statement (P&L) and Balance Sheet : CEOs don’t need to check these documents on a daily basis, but regular analyses keep them in the loop of the company’s financial position. Average salary: $192,383/yr.