Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. Each has a different approach to SaaS growth and will significantly impact your company’s product vision and revenue strategy. The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. Make sense of your data.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Of course, keeping tactical work aligned with company goals and vision is a critical part of any successful product manager’s job , so this trend to ask for more “strategic thinking” from product people can feel like an invitation to take on more meaningful and high-status work. Leadership should guide, not dictate.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved. Consider it the price of leadership.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, John talks about how he set about educating himself by learning from others and why he decided that his business had to have a global vision from the outset. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. It was structured such that there was an overarching set of KPIs agreed upon at the leadership level. Once that’s complete, I’m trying to let each of the teams own that and drive it forward.

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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. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision. Product Managers like to joke that ‘ with great responsibility, comes no power.’

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals. Together, they collaborate to drive development goals and actualize the product vision. They will also wield significant influence on the direction of the development, strategy, and vision of the products they are developing.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. Fortuitously, Jack introduces them to a CTO candidate, Raphael, who advises them to eliminate as many of their OKRs as possible and to initiate weekly check-ins. Inspiration is a critical part of leadership. OKRs are KPIs with a soul. Language matters.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ilan will join members of our product leadership, including Gainsight’s CTO Mickey Alon and our Group VP for Platform and PX, Denise Stokowski , live on stage to break down which highway will take you from product-market-fit to growth for the Enterprise. We don’t want to give away all the surprise stops in one day!

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz].

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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% MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

Asking questions about the value of the components (rather than their function) allows you to build a picture of how they will help you move towards your product’s vision. Focus on the most fundamental deliverables, the ones that are crucial to achieving your product vision. , and so on.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. By sharing decision rights with your CTO you may find yourself making plans based on more realistic effort estimates and a collaborative vision set with both the Why and How. Agile was supposed to bring product creation closer to the customer. Great products are made of conversations.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

My job was to define a vision for the product and create a plan to deliver it. Product Vision. Creating the vision for the product early was important. It gave the team autonomy over delivering the vision, what the product would do and how we would build it. A single product owner with decision-making authority.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways. And I can see how.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Especially in a bigger company, it usually takes a while before you really get to know people, especially people in leadership roles who are busier and might not have time to meet you during your onboarding. Even though Amplitude is growing, their onboarding is still done by the leadership team.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

They are responsible for all product activities within an organisation, creating the overall product strategy to achieve the corporate vision and goals set by the CEO and board members. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Seeing the big-picture vision and possessing versatility enables product managers to impact, even when the spotlight falls on others instead. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Kate would be the first to credit a pretty amazing team, including some exceptional engineers, and the vision and courage of the founders, but I would argue that without a Kate driving for the technology-based solutions that could actually power this business, there’s a good chance Netflix as we know it never would have happened.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To capture the portfolio and product strategy, I prefer to work with the Portfolio Vision Board and Product Vision Board. This does not imply, however, that only the leadership team determines this strategy. The technology strategy and roadmap, finally, are owned by the CTO together with senior architects.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. Products operations is to product management as marketing operations is to marketing.

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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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