The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change. This will position your team to execute well and be successful.

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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.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Arkenea

AUGUST 9, 2024

Sebastian Frohm, a technologist who has dedicated the last 15 years of his life to the art form of scalability, talks about AI becoming a frontrunner in medicine, trust and bravery for fostering innovation in HealthTech and creating value as a CTO. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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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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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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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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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

By leaning into the positive, you instinctively start to relax. Turn on your best smile, be positive, and thank the person for the opportunity to (re)state the reasoning. Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. This is an excellent opportunity.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

This is an entry-level position, for someone who is brand new to the role. The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. Associate Product Manager.

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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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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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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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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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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April Dunford: Positioning for growth – How to make complex products obviously awesome Everyone thinks they know what positioning is. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. This will make you reconsider. Professor Clay Christensen: The job your product does.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Job Responsibilities and Duties First and foremost, the most entry-level product manager position, besides interns , are associate product managers. Stock options and signing bonuses are also available for some APM positions, but this depends on the organization. Although, some product management positions pay as low as $80,000/year.

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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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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2020

Antonio Piraino, CTO at Sciencelogic. Bobby Tahir, CTO at Hobsons. The role of leadership in teams was also discussed. The feedback during and after the event was resoundingly positive and attendees left with new connections and inspiration for their own challenges. Those facilitators were: Ed Barrientos, CEO at Brazen.

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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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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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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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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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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. Taking the time today to create an effective AI strategy is the best way to position your company to thrive tomorrow.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a Product Lead, I continuously emphasize to our broader team the importance of defining personas so that we’re clear about who we’re targeting when shaping our product or positioning. I’ve found a big piece of getting this right is keeping those of us on the development side as close to our customers as our support or sales teams.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Else : “Yeah absolutely.

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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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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. Throughout the story, the company is struggling to find the right customers and identify its market position. Inspiration is a critical part of leadership. Hanna is objective and results-oriented while Jack is altruistic and purpose-driven.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. “There’s no one path into a PM position, Nick said. It’s a true story!”

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