Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Bootstrapping.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). DBAs tasking with managing related databases. An Izenda customer had a database engineer who was concerned about the amount of involvement that would be needed on his behalf for the organization to report in real-time off of their own databases. IT Administrators.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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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. The History of Office Design In light of David’s post, we wanted to surface a few events that led to our current ways of working.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 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. Here’s what we’ve uncovered.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. But what if the manager role is not for you?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. ” 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. That’s why I called it “typical.”

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What is product management? The industry continues to be confused by the titles, roles, and responsibilities in product management. . Product management focuses on. However, what one organization calls product management, another calls product marketing. for the products available today.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

I had to say goodbye to my product manager job because I got fired Image Credit: Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. This generally happens when the company is forced to reduce its workforce because they’ve run into financial problems or a contract got canceled or they are closing a branch office. You get the point.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. What Is a Chief Product Officer? . Also known as the Director of Product or VP of Product, the chief product officer leads the product management team, which consists of product managers with varying levels of responsibility.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Full Transcript Teresa Torres: Welcome, everybody.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

The other group (product, engineering, design, long-term support, product marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on overall impact for the whole installed base, long-term investments, and the need to support every line of code that any user has in production. Get it done, and move on.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

The most common responses were “CEO” and “Head of Product” (which were both options they could have selected). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. Let’s get more engineers involved in discovery!

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. Let’s talk about hiring your very first product manager. It won’t take much engineering. Engineers are bad at this.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

15:53 James Avery, Kevel: Yeah, so we we’ve usually been about half and half when we look at like product engineering, and then sales, marketing operations. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They would then formulate a program charged with the software delivery, of which a TPM would manage. They may also support the product decisions necessary for the company's larger goals. What Teams Do TPMs Work With?

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As a case in point, the team should prioritize creating enabling specifications that are most useful for regulatory compliance, reference information for product support, and for team members who don’t have domain knowledge. Backlog refinement is the engine that drives ongoing delivery of valued product increments. Conclusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Laura Klein: Since the mid ’90s, I’ve done research, I’ve been an engineer, I’ve done user experience design, and now I do product management. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Mind the Product. Product Management Festival.

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