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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. A CTO can help you find the right answers. Instead, they should consider a Fractional CTO who can help close the gap.

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Open innovation 2.0–and other innovation insights for product managers May 20, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 4) Present your solution, and ask more questions. (5) A history of innovation from 1870 to the present. R&D is not correlated to innovation. 2) Conduct one-on-one interviews. (3)

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. And the response was overwhelming. The question was not, “should we do this?”

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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes. Ellen is a world-renowned writer, speaker, and presenter. “Scrum and CMMI—Going from Good to Great: Are you Ready-Ready to be Done-Done?” Gottesdiener, Ellen and Mary Gorman.

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

To address a broad audience, I present these and additional considerations in general terms. Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g. In other cases, they might have to contract it out. We used several considerations that are further explained in the next section.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

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. So first the question many salespeople are thinking while we present our next-quarter roadmap is….

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Expert Spotlight: Michael Ciano – Building Trust In Healthcare Technology

Arkenea

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?