Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

If you’re not excelling in your current position, you won’t get noticed for the next opportunity. Your career will benefit from being in environments with strong talent and leadership, even if the company isn’t perfect. Be bold, creative, and strategic in how you present and position your brand to maximize its impact.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. What happens when company leadership fails to provide actionable high-level goals? CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. Teams, you’re empowered!”

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Whether your product contributes to the success of users within a department or multiple users across departments, it is still making a positive impact on departments within an organization. Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). The Importance of Department Personas.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And InVision’s The New Design Frontier report on design maturity found that organizations with high-performing, mature design teams “are more likely to see cost savings, revenue gains, productivity gains, speed to market, and brand and market position improvements through their design efforts.” Get Involved with Research.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

However, the role of a cloud architect is not an entry-level position. You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. The DevOps position shares many aspects with the work of a cloud architect, especially when it comes to developing systems.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

Photo by Alvaro Reyes / Unsplash T - Technical: The position is unsurprisingly a technical one. P - Program: The position is centered on developing and executing technical business programs. For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. So let's get to it.

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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? On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

April Dunford sat in the back of a marketing class at Northwestern University in Chicago, where her professor gave an example of a product positioning statement. By filling in the appropriate answers, you would design a product positioning statement that would suffice for your product and company. Positioning is not a tagline. .

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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. Josh as an engineer was uniquely positioned to help us close those gaps of data and integrations. Here’s how he characterizes Josh’s time as tech lead: “I think of it as two chapters.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Tweet This It’s clear from these results that focusing on a single outcome is still a minority position. I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. of respondents said that their Head of Product (e.g. said other.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

Throughout my career, I’ve observed that these responsibilities can differ significantly, even at higher levels such as mid-manager or director positions. Because of this, it is easy for their value to be overlooked by leadership. Both roles should be thinking about positioning, competitive space, and differentiation.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer).

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

Ever wonder what a chief product officer is up to? Well, the CPO position has certainly grown and evolved over time. It’s the CPO’s job to make sure that impact is positive. Leadership. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. Data-driven thinking.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The same is true for your question: Yes, of course, at some point it’s easy to overload an individual or a workforce with too much technology, and in the case of the individual, we tend to self-correct. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? But these new opportunities come with significantly more work and responsibility than any IC position.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. Getting Buy-in from Leadership Business leaders are often concerned about how their tech teams will react to an external technical review. Are you ready?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Did you take note of user stories that may remain in the Sprint?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. It takes time, but from my experience, great people are quick learners, so that it could turn into a positive ROI quickly. and during?—?the

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. If you treat your position as a chance to manipulate people into doing things your way, you’re definitely in the wrong job! There’s also a big difference between influence and manipulation.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Video and Slides below. Upcoming Events.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. Niamh O’Connor: You mentioned the positives that can come from it. Thanks so much for having me.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” You’re a company founder and a CTO. In the very early days of Mode, there were three of us: our CEO, who was off talking to investors, our CTO, who was chained to a desk building the product, and me. What do you think of the state of your industry’s “thought leadership”?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern, then we need to make sure no one ever repeats it, and we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior we want.” “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. The predictability of the leadership team, of you, of me. Is that what you mean?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved. Consider it the price of leadership.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Instead it’s their grit and positive character that stands out.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 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. . Sound Byte.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Tom was previously the VP of Product at Snap and the chief technology officer of Pandora. He also held leadership positions at notable tech flops Pets.com and Quibi, giving him a unique perspective not only on what it takes to build a successful company but also on lessons from failure.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. Make sense of your data 2.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.” It takes strong product leadership, in the best sense of the word, including providing a compelling product vision and strategy.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Especially in a bigger company, it usually takes a while before you really get to know people, especially people in leadership roles who are busier and might not have time to meet you during your onboarding. Even though Amplitude is growing, their onboarding is still done by the leadership team.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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