People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you. Days where we’re B or C players.

Leadership 52

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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.

Reporting Tools 167

Reporting Tools Analytic Tools Customer Experience Technical Review 167

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. ML : [singing] Happy birthday to you… DC : And it was the four year anniversary I left we left September 30th 2014 and HubSpot went public. ML : Describe David Cancel.

CTO Coach 52

CTO Coach Weak Development Team User Testing Customer Experience 52

Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

There was only one team member brave enough to take him on. He wasn’t doing a bad job at all, Kirk Baillie. So you’ve come in and you’ve been running annual conferences since 2007, and then bi annual conferences since 2014, when you launched the EU as well as the US conference. Kirk Baillie. Mark Littlewood.

Weak Development Team 52

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