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. Building a roadmap backwards. Building a roadmap backwards. Bootstrapping.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. create a path to executive leadership. Companies share they are only “marginally effective” at converting R&D spending into product advancements.

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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. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities. This isn’t ideal.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. Leadership Forum.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 That they have the attention spans of squirrels, ignoring or forgetting existing commitments and agreed-upon customer targets and roadmaps.  That  And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.  At the end of the quarter, we wonder why so few planned roadmap items were shipped.  Where

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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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 must develop their program's roadmaps and strategies while also leading all the teams that ultimately execute them. Leadership And last, but certainly not least, TPMs must have strong leadership.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Findings Sessions : A review meeting to decode findings, gauge their business implications, and chalk out a roadmap for the future. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! They were awarded a province-wide contract consisting of 23 cities, which is the largest project of its size awarded to a single vendor in Canada.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

The product strategy takes a high-level product vision and turns it into a roadmap toward development. Leadership. Strong leadership is incredibly important when it comes to growth for SaaS companies , which, according to Basha Coleman , “has been the largest and fastest-growing market segment since 2019.”. Innovation.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Sound Byte.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Product Managers (PM) are responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line.

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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% Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Yet their paths, strategy, roadmap prioritization were not well decided, if set at all. So who is better managed, your CTO (managed by you) or yourself (being managed by the board)? He’s a startup strategy consultant and the founder of Y-Perspective Consulting. I argue otherwise. Who’s your boss? Make them accountable.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. Kevin: Yeah.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”.

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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 ). Ellen: Then we also started introducing outcomes to our priority roadmap.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. The one is you’ve got a nice product roadmap for different products. First off, just to be clear, we don’t have a roadmap. We don’t have a roadmap, though.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

And so we had one on Friday, where we put half of that stuff on the roadmap that we would normally put, because we know we’re going to go half as fast. And then the leads our leadership team meets for 90 minutes every Thursday. Would you recommend that over and above the contract habits?” Natalie Nagele.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leadership. To make a Roadmap useful, you need an allocation model and a selling strategy that helps you: understand; manage the expectations of; deliver value to people across the organization who prioritize very different things. Rich explains some approaches to help you understand and manage a roadmap’s stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I was initially brought in as a freelance consultant by Simon Nelson, who had been recently appointed by the OU as CEO of its new venture. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. I would ultimately forge a hugely productive working relationship with them as a product leadership trio.

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