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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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture. See Leadership Tip #9: See and Stop MicroManagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). They use power-over , not power-with to decide.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Share Master emotional agility and shift annoyance into opportunity Ever had a colleague do something that gets on your nerves? Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership!

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. Can they create an agile transformation?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and participant in product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. CEOs need to change too. And leaders reimagined service and support in the era of customer success.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

A great CEO has the confidence and humility to ask for help, to rely on outside experts and to surround herself or himself with people that excel in other fields, such as product leadership. At Bain Public, we can help fast-track the development of your product management and leadership. Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Keep everyone united As Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora said in an interview : “Force yourselves to get everyone on the same page about what’s important for the business right now.” As a direct result, I became Head of Product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. Author: Henrik Kniberg. a leader within your market).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. 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. Vasu Vadlamudi Product Management Consultant.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. In the event that the Basecamp guys happen to read this, they might be shrieking and gibbering right now, because they do not, never ever, in any way or sense, describe Shape Up as an “agile methodology.”

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

They operate independently with a product development team, maybe on a smaller product or area, and under the leadership and mentorship of a more senior product manager. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. Product Manager.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. Inspiration is a critical part of leadership. Language matters.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Maintaining your agility while simultaneously making the product development process predictable is one of the biggest challenges any product leader faces. Since then, the Wistia senior leadership team and I have been building out and revising what we’re calling the Wistia Operating System — a new methodology for how Wistia gets work done.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Agile was supposed to bring product creation closer to the customer. 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. Great products are made of conversations.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Agile development. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. This will see him transition CTO responsibilities to a to-be-determined successor at the end of FY22. Sri joined as Atlassian’s first CTO in January 2016, shortly after our initial public offering.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. What it all means for the future.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leadership. Agile methodology is not an exact science. Watch The many flavours of Agile. 3 // Leadership. I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Culture & Teams. Innovation. Marketing & Sales. Harry Potter. That last one will make sense when you get to it!). 1 // Product.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

My goal has always been to positively impact the lives of people going through life-changing diseases whilst also forging the way for other female leaders in the technology industry.” ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. “I started as a software developer. So I made the shift to product management.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

We don’t we’re not we don’t follow agile methodologies, we don’t follow a bunch of different ways of doing things. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And if you go to basecamp.com/shapeup, this is our methodology for working.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And another issue with centralized design teams is that a load of design and tech teams are both using Jira often you’ll find the tech teams on Agile and the design team is on waterfall, so the design team becomes another blocker and they get even more demoralized and miserable because everyone’s moaning at them.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Many of these will probably be familiar to you from the agile manifesto but it required some convincing of a large traditional organisation like the OU. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. I would ultimately forge a hugely productive working relationship with them as a product leadership trio.

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