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. Part of his vision was “being agile”. The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently. So, there was a disconnect between the articulated vision and what was implemented.

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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. Product Management Do you have a clear vision of the initial application and a plan for sequencing changes after the initial launch?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 19, 2023

I expect Vision Pro will have its weaknesses like the original iPhone or Apple Watch, but this is prime Apple territory–introduce a product that’s an order of magnitude better than anything that preceded it, albeit with weaknesses, and then refine & advance.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. In smaller companies, this will be your company and product’s overall vision. “What is your Product Strategy?

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Yariv Azatchi is the chief technology officer at Promo and is the man connecting between the products and data in the company. Our company enables businesses of all sizes to promote their vision without limits through video content. Promo is a leading video creation platform for small and medium-sized businesses.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. He has a super clear vision. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? Pitching a new product vision to aid in fundraising. Let me explain what I mean with an example. I resisted. He asked repeatedly. John really nailed this!

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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. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision. Product Managers like to joke that ‘ with great responsibility, comes no power.’

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2023

Only you carry the vision and belief of what your product can become. More often than not, the real problems in the process of building a product come from people and communication (or lack of thereof) or power, entitlement, internal politics, people holding information, fear of being bypassed, ignorance, lack of vision, etc.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! It articulates how the full vision will be delivered. Avoid the temptation to write software.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 19, 2024

Since last week’s Spring Update event from OpenAI, I’ve been wanting to test the new Omni model (GPT-4o) in my Vision-based recipe ingestor project. Quantitative GPT-4-turbo: 1:03 (1 min 3 secs) GPT-4o: 0:38 (38 secs) Qualitative GPT-4o’s Vision capabilities seem to have improved over GPT-4-turbo.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, John talks about how he set about educating himself by learning from others and why he decided that his business had to have a global vision from the outset. John was determined to do both in the global adtech market, not one that is traditionally associated with deep Cambridge tech.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals. Together, they collaborate to drive development goals and actualize the product vision. They will also wield significant influence on the direction of the development, strategy, and vision of the products they are developing.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

Asking questions about the value of the components (rather than their function) allows you to build a picture of how they will help you move towards your product’s vision. Focus on the most fundamental deliverables, the ones that are crucial to achieving your product vision. , and so on.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. “It is about the people, and vision and purpose and work, in that order. I’m like, “No, no, I believe in this company and the vision and the mission and what we’re doing, and it’s a company that invests in people.”

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 19, 2023

Meta, a company I generally detest, is making real contributions in AI, including significant (partly) open source efforts such as the LLAMA model, which has fueled massive independent development. I trust Meta … to do what’s good for Meta alone, but in AI they’re (probably accidentally) doing a lot of good.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

Having product vision paired with development expertise is a rare combo, and product managers should make it their job to work as closely as possible with these individuals. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. At mid to later stage, this is more likely a Senior Engineer.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

Ways to form the vision for a product. I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. 23:30] Where is the product’s vision now? Ways to form the vision for a product. 1:48] What is Badger Maps?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching. appeared first on Business of Software USA.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ilan will join members of our product leadership, including Gainsight’s CTO Mickey Alon and our Group VP for Platform and PX, Denise Stokowski , live on stage to break down which highway will take you from product-market-fit to growth for the Enterprise. We don’t want to give away all the surprise stops in one day!

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz].

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . They need to understand the implications of the organization’s technology roadmap on the product roadmap. Product development is exhilarating. However, it isn’t fun to redo a product every three years. And that’s on a good day. .

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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. Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Pro extracting structured output from video prompts parallels my own experience using GPT-4 Vision to extract structure from heirloom recipe images (often handwritten and horribly mangled): … I’m pretty astonished by this. Willison’s experience with, and reaction to, Gemini 1.5 … I find those results pretty astounding.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He puts pressure on himself to make sure he does a good job in demonstrating Amplitude’s vision for how product teams should operate. “I Everyone in the company strives to be a trusted expert and it’s one of the things I love about working there.”. And while he truly does love the work, John admits it can be challenging.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Please note: The list may become less applicable with an increase in the size of the organization in question.): (Product) vision and strategy are neither transparent nor regularly communicated. Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO. Offline boards are banned for confidentiality reasons.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. of a Chief Product Officer Obsession with the customer’s problem Business savvy Design focus Data-driven thinking Insatiable curiosity Technical fluency Vision How to Become a CPO? How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. When the product backlog is too long, it clouds the vision and creates underlying stress of what’s not getting done. What was the point of diligently managing the backlog when it would be impossible to accomplish it all? It improves creativity.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 26, 2022

To create these elevated customer journeys and experiences, both CS and Product must share the same vision and North Star metrics. . We now must deliver a cohesive experience along each step of the customer journey, including when they talk to the CS team and when they are engaging with the product itself.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

If you feel the product does not fit your personal vision, make it fit. Pursuing a personal vision will increase your conviction and decision-making effectiveness, and inspire others through your example. You will be in a much better position to explain to your CTO why you absolutely need those four weeks of backend refactoring.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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