The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. . We learn by doing.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. So let’s start with the positioning, like what exactly is level jump?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. 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. In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where.

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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. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We needed something that would scale with us today. A fond farewell.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth. “What got me in the door is someone believing in me, then I took the burden of proof as a mission in every position I ever got. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. “I started as a software developer.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. Of course the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey has been taught to me by mentors and has been as staple throughout my career.

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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 ). Who was deciding on that output? We had a huge list of things that we wanted to do.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Notable Speakers from the recent INDUSTRY conferences: Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant, Author, and Trainer. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Ken Norton, Senior Operating Partner at Google Ventures.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Tweet This It’s clear from these results that focusing on a single outcome is still a minority position. In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). I was surprised to see that 77.6%

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. They don’t know what you want them to do. I’m counting on you OK.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement. Effective strategies begin with three thoughts: will this have a net negative, a net neutral, or a net positive impact on your customers. Enablement: The Key to CS Success starring Jen Bruno, Gainsight’s Senior.

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