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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

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. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Curated Content – A low down of news and views from the month of March

Business of Software Conference

A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories. There are so many other ways. // 5 min read $aaS – Interesting innovation in alternative finance. A marketplace for institutions to bid on recurring revenue contracts. A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. See Part 2.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

Planning the design and development of new products or features. Working with teams to develop new products or features. You speak finance, technical and customer, connecting the dots for all three. You plan for the future and participate in the details of product design and development. You are multilingual.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

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. .

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. It’s as important as sales, marketing, finance, operations or support.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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. If you’re overseeing 52 developers and 4 product managers, your attention is mostly on engineering issues rather than product issues.