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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

Defining Continuous Discovery: Setting a Clear Benchmark In my book that came out in May of 2021, I decided to define continuous discovery. As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. It is an absolute requirement.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And here at Intercom, 2021 saw us reach many milestones.

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How To Manage People Who Are More Experienced Than You Are

The Product Coalition

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. This situation is very common and requires the founders to close many gaps in the way they think about product management in general and their product specifically (that’s where my mentoring services come in handy ). And are they even needed?

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Phishing attacks are still the most common causes of data breaches in 2021. As I said, phishing attacks are still 90% of data breaches in 2021. Caught your interest? SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide. The LinkedIn Incident.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. E.g. for us when we were hiring – it was our CTO, who is a man – told us “ If we want to attract more women to take that job, we need to rewrite the job description. Again…Why?

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How do you solve your product problems?

Business of Software Conference

Join us for an interactive online Q&A on 11th March 2021 with Bruce McCarthy (Founder of Product Culture and Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched ). “In In just 30min Bruce helped us make the optimal choice that had kept us in meetings and agony for 3 weeks. Don't miss out - sign up now: The post How do you solve your product problems?

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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? As was the case when they were junior engineers, Senior Software Engineers will usually help train or act as mentors for entry-level engineers on their teams. CTOs routinely lead all the technical or engineering departments at a firm.