Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

Describe your potential customers with their name, age, and profession. I just type in my interests and your algorithm provides the most popular titles instantaneously. And the community on the platform is awesome. Landed my dream job by using your networking feature!! Mark Terry, ProdSoft Inc. But there is more.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. but more on this later…).

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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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? As the name suggests, these individuals manage a large team of engineers and software developers, including junior, senior, and principal software engineers. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? We've got your covered.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Dual Role of the Product Leader When you look at the product leader’s role (code name: CPO) compared to their peers (namely CMO, CTO, CRO, CFO), the product leader’s role stands out. When you get that everything is your business, don’t forget to include in that, well, the business side of the company.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. Nothing even remotely that could identifyany proper nouns, company names, product namesall removed.

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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. What’s in a name? Nidhi Kamat: Hi, my name’s Nidhi Kamat. I’m Liam Geraghty.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

It’s from a 1962 report published by a man named Douglas Engelbart. The video operator for the demo was a guy named Stewart Brand , who among other things published a magazine at the time called the Whole Earth Catalog. Modern software is obsessed with tools. The report was called Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas This data is typically arranged in rows and columns, akin to what you'd find in databases, spreadsheets, or CSV files. Our team is excited to be working at the forefront of this revolution.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

Don’t waste this valuable real estate on showing your company name or “Thank you.” They show onscreen the longest—while you get set up and while you take questions afterward—so they should contain your strongest point. ” Use the “30-day test” to maintain a high-performance team.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). creating a community of practice for their organisation. getting a promotion.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. Establish naming conventions and make your team stick to them. Make one person responsible, at the end of the day, for data integrity and cleanliness. Actionable Experimentation.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart. That’s why I called it “typical.” Maybe you have a Database Director, too.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. We don’t know what product leaders do, and disagree about what’s most important in a new one.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What’s In a Name? 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. Let’s unpack. So our first struggle is what to call this role.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. The manager may point at Sallyanne while saying her name, or, for a different effect, bite their lip after the word “please”.

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Centercode

JANUARY 26, 2023

My name is Luke Freiler. I am a co-founder of Centercode, and as of 2009 I have taken on the role of CEO after spending 8 years serving as CTO and leading the design of the Centercode beta test platform.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas We provide value by targeting our review towards key components across your application stack.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Building Products Customers Need Proven Methods To Build Products Customers Need Working Backward Approach Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO of Amazon.com, wrote an article about Amazon’s working backward approach in 2006. This should ideally be the name of the product and essentially tell what the product is about Subheading ?—?The

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both. And did I mention that I learned HTML and CSS along the way?

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Andrew’s name kept popping up when we asked guests who in growth do you think we have the most to learn from? You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. You can hear or read the full interview on the Intercom blog. Andrew Chen: Hyper-growth on the road.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Yet for many cloud CEOs, the only part of their business that they are the most blind about is the aspect that’s most existential to being a software company—namely the product. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. A good CEO is close to their teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Drift’s co-founder and CTO Elias Torres stated in our e-book How To Turn Customer Feedback Into Product Value : “Only our users are able to come up with improvements that can truly get their jobs done.” . In the recent 5 years, the iPhone plus series brought back big phones to relieve our eyeballs from the increased screen time.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. For the record, I anonymized the name of our design system and the UI kit. “In my 10+ years of career at our company, I have never seen the global enterprise speaking a single language of XYZ design and ABC UI kit.”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Clutch has named them one of the top app development agencies in 2018. for four consecutive years.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

You should be the first to want to link your name to a product, and the first one to want to show it to people. You will be in a much better position to explain to your CTO why you absolutely need those four weeks of backend refactoring. If you feel the product does not fit your personal vision, make it fit. Work on Your Eloquence.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers. Product management has always been a cross-functional discipline responsible for working with multiple groups including engineering, marketing, sales, and support.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up Subscribe to One Thing Weekly Name * First Name Last Name Email * Our Privacy Policy * You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at bruce@productculture.com.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Our user experience professionals have already analyzed the expertise of dozens of design agencies in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, to name a few. In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. In contrast, smaller conferences can surprise you with some big names. Michael Pryor, CEO and Head of Product at Trello and Atlassian.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. After doing a ton of research, we came onto a model that had been active for years in San Francisco run by someone named Lynn Breedlove called Homobiles that answered our question.[^2].

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

take on a large competitor by literally naming them and then positioning them into a corner – using their own positioning against them. make sure your customers understand who your REAL competition is.

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