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Interview: A Chat with BPMA Mentor and Edx CTO, Mark Haseltine

bpma ProductHub

Being paired with my mentor Mark Haseltine, CTO at Edx, was a unique and valuable experience. Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Managers and leaders are different.

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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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

Product Talk

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions at Ramsey Solutions The product team at Ramsey Solutions is 40+ squads strong.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 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. . What does your team and company need?

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