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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. A Product Manager?

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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! to run its Product organisation. When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers.

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

In order to maintain a competitive advantage, CTOs and product managers are shifting their products to the cloud. Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for innovation.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Engineering managers are expected to play a role in higher-level decision-making or cross-functional collaboration in their companies. This is especially true as you move up into management. We've got your covered.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.