Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 23, 2024

When handling high-stakes product reviews with executives (who are so inundated with information that they can't go deep on all of it, aka "dinosaur brain"), focus on distilling complex information into concise, actionable recommendations.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

My hope is that this will provide you with moral support on your uncertain journey and serve as another data point to empower your vision. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Upon reflection, in this article, I will be sharing our success story and the recipe for our achievement.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

As the crucial nexus in the product development framework, their plate is all too often full with business demands, technical requirements, and marketing concerns. If you feel the product does not fit your personal vision, make it fit. Develop Your Technical Skills (or Fake it Till you Make it). Work on Your Eloquence.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. This may include reviewing quantitative metrics, conducting customer surveys, and more. From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. If you’re short on time, here’s some quick takeaways.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat. At Pearson, I created a global community of Future Technologies Champions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 23, 2019

I would share as much as possible as I could about the vision for my product or project, the complexity of my company, and the expectations I would have from partners. Do you have experience in the technical domains I plan to use? Maybe I want to use a cross-platform mobile technology that my partner hasn’t used before.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

They’re the capstone for a product manager’s vision and strategy. It will help you to have a seamless review and approval process. Do your homework, huddle up with tech leads, and develop rough estimates for each initiative (and have an idea of the minimal version for each one). Another key mistake: over optimism.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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 27, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

These people provided us with their understanding of the market and the medium to long term vision of the company. Additionally, the CTO gave us information on the technical limitations. Last but not least, before going to India, we let a couple of our designers at UX Studio review the platform and share their thoughts with us.

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All About Product Management

JUNE 5, 2013

We've all had experiences where the visual designs are being reviewed and a senior stakeholder says something like "can't we move that button over to the left and move the ‘most popular’ module so it sits above the fold" etc. They could not resist showing-off their technical knowledge. Present well thought through release plans.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. It discusses how with technology products, your customers don’t know what’s possible and they don’t know what they want until they see it.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. 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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. So we know that the CEO is time-slicing to cover investor pitches and office space and recruiting and benefits and legal and setting product direction and stocking the kitchen with snacks.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

.” Here’s a summary from phind.com , a ChatGPT-backed web search similar to (but better than, in my opinion) Bing Chat: In the Expanse series, “the churn” is a term used to describe the cycle of chaos, change, and upheaval that the characters face due to various factors such as political, social, or criminal turmoil.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

This brings us to an important question that every product manager and the associated tech teams ask themselves every time they dip their feet in the river of building digital products. Although machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are buzzwords in today’s tech industry and some very solid products have been built using ML.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

And you know what they say as well – at some point the CEO has to step back and take a strategic role so they have time to do visioning and look at the market and not be involved in the day to day of the operation. They were not review quarterlies. You can reconfigure the company vision scope and size. And he hired a CEO.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. So David and I set the direction, and the strategy and the vision and sort of where we’re headed. And it’s technically incredibly complicated. And it was a mess. That worked well.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Digital transformations often fail due to unclear vision and outdated methods, not team adoption or tech implementation issues. It isn’t the lack of team adoption or poor implementation of new tech. The key culprit is the lack of clear vision and strategy. Traditionally, the product function fell under Technology.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. The five things in the V2MOM: Your vision which is really the call to action.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

My job was to define a vision for the product and create a plan to deliver it. Product Vision. Creating the vision for the product early was important. It gave the team autonomy over delivering the vision, what the product would do and how we would build it. A single product owner with decision-making authority.

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