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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you. Days where we’re B or C players.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

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. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. What does your team and company need?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. But despite these differences, Farhan Virji, VP of Customer Happiness at Later, believes that there is actually quite a lot that B2B support teams can learn from their B2C colleagues.

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Remote Working | Natalie Nagele & Peldi | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! So natalie what did you do to to help your team right now? Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele.