Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. Being on call regularly can lead to burnout, apathy or a general desire to never see a computer again. The history of on call at Intercom. As Intercom grew, we built an operations team to help Ciaran out.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

The letter got resounding support, including a rousing endorsement from our co-founder and CTO, Ciaran Lee. The wider engineering community has the responsibility to take action, and we can all do our part in driving positive change. And the response was overwhelming. A snippet of the open letter Sam sent to our R&D Slack channel.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 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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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are many benefits to hiring a fractional CTO, also known as a part-time or interim CTO. A fractional CTO can bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to your organization without the added expense of a full-time executive.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Many said it is an iterative process that requires a lot of repetition and use internal trio models or even decide that the first trio must exist at the management level (CPO/CTO/ Head of Design) before it can be implemented in teams. Claire continues, “It’s a continuous learning process starting from the most basic reminders (e.g.

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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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Modus Create

APRIL 10, 2024

Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators , where our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the seventh episode, we bring you Larry Fitzpatrick , Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial. What is your take on modernizing legacy technology?

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I’ve been in this position multiple times as a founder but also as a UX expert and it can be a tricky beast to handle. 9 Take constant and incremental step towards the vision Simon Cast , CTO & co-founder at ProdPad If you have a product vision, I hope it’s big.

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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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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. The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). The Importance of Department Personas. Understanding Personas Makes Better Products.

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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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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. A line-by-line strategy is handed off to the team, generally with good intentions, but this strategy represents the ideas of the CTO or CPO, it’s not the team’s ideas. Leadership micromanages the team as opposed to empowering it through an actionable vision to guide execution.

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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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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Competition: There are many cryptocurrency projects, and some may be better positioned to succeed than others. How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project? Foster community engagement: The CTO should engage with the community and seek to understand their needs and feedback.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. This is the question that Denise Jacobs, author of Banish Your Inner Critic , asks us in the opening keynote of #mtpcon San Francisco. We all have negative thoughts.

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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. Review company documents and presentations. instead of “We should _.”

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Are you moving towards a positive outcome, or away from a negative one? Research into Approach goals and Avoidance goals shows that if we frame our goals as a positive (Approach), we have a better chance of success and feeling positive about the experience. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. The country’s traditions of collectivism still posit that all members of a team should, whenever possible, be together in the office for the whole day.”

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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. Both roles should be thinking about positioning, competitive space, and differentiation. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 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 Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. When it comes to having the choice between working in an office or working remotely — we have made significant progress as a society.

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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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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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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Now it’s time for “special cases”… A “special case” refers to any stakeholders who are likely to have strong positive or negative opinions about your Business Intelligence project. For those special cases who have strong positive sentiments, consider them key allies.

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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. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. Maybe you want to become one yourself one day!

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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 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 31, 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.

Analytic Tools 150

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! Great stuff!” As a manager, being able to instantly summarize a conversation between my team and the customer is amazing.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

This shift allows business to reallocate human resources to more complex and strategic roles, or eliminate those positions entirely. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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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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