The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. Team allocation scenarios.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

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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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the neutral corner… On the side of neutrality, she discusses the views of people including Demis Hassabis – DeepMind founder, Verner Vogels – Amazon CTO and others who argue broadly that technology is neutral but can be applied for good and bad. As the world’s first web developer puts it. “As

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr. Laura : “I haven’t.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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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. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I was working with a bunch of different companies and teams of all different sizes. Laura: Exactly.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. On the casino side what we developed was a machine which allowed you to play on four roulette wheels simultaneously. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

I wrote this page for the team saying you know the fact that it’s too much around me it’s a limiting factor in the pursuit of our company’s mission. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams. And I told the team keep calm and carry on and you know we can do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. They cared about my team. So how do we do this how do we manage this badass team?

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. Lots of shared titles.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having gender- and cultural-equitable teams, where a multitude of voices and perspectives collaborate to further our innovative work.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. So you have field, inside, BDRs (business development representatives), ADRs (account development reps), CSMs (customer service Managers), etc all these acronyms that we all know.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So natalie what did you do to to help your team right now? Natalie Nagele. yeah I mean I will start so WildBit turned 20 in October and so it started – thanks – and so the entire 20 years it’s been a remote company so we’ve been doing this for quite some time. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. We had high relevance.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Giving your CS team is dependent on your company values and needs. As Customer Success Operations becomes central to most companies, the growth of the CS team and professional role is leading to an opening of the profession. They carefully chose the talent on their teams to suit their needs. Complex and fast?

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