Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

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. They also began to run small tests to learn how customers would respond in different situations.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts. Be discerning about product management advice.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. This can come from employees, who are already accustomed to traditional methods of working, as well as leadership, who may not fully understand the value of a digital transformation.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He says you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests (RAT) instead because “there is no need to build more than what’s required to test your largest unknown.” You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. ” #11 Why You Are Asking the Wrong Customer Interview Questions. Author: Marty Cagan.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. One of many tests they tried was to move to a subscription service.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Principal Software Engineer Responsibilities Build and maintain well-tested software applications.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Who was deciding on that output?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

It should be a good test. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. As a coach you hire yourself a coach inside the company to help you through.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Take test management, for example. Atlassian partnered with companies like Xray, SmartBear, and Mabl so teams can manage their automated tests without leaving Jira. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. A fond farewell.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem. So getting to the end now.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great. But maybe they were volunteers.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! Blaise has been working with Bain Public since 2019, after meeting them at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? And then the leads our leadership team meets for 90 minutes every Thursday. And I was like, okay, we’re done here.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And once we’ve done all this we ship and we ship tiny little increments in each one we learn we test we measure and we work out what we should do. We can do this by multivariate testing or once we know we have a direction of travel then we can build up and just continue to iterate on what we’ve released.

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