The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

At the time, he says the company’s co-founder and CTO personally reviewed almost every product decision. As Lynch recalls, the CTO was busy, but the review process seemed to work well while the team was still small. However, as the team grew, it became difficult for anyone to get time with the CTO.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. I diligently prioritized and managed the epics and stories, moving them into the next two or three sprints in the sprint backlog. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

Their latest book, Shape Up by Ryan Singer, delivered another compelling read on effectively managing software projects. The book shares the full software development process that the Basecamp team currently uses across it's 50-person team to build and enhance Basecamp itself. For two, we don’t line walls with Post-it notes.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Digital transformations often fail due to unclear vision and outdated methods, not team adoption or tech implementation issues. He hosts Proddys, an annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding software products, and The Product Podcast. Think about Agile. Agile has become so complicated that it isn’t so agile anymore.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The mission of the Intercom Information Security (InfoSec) team is to foster and safeguard customer trust – and we think a lot about how we preserve Intercom’s agility while also recognizing and mitigating the highest-rated security risks. . Investing significantly in safeguarding our customers’ trust. Intercom is no exception.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. Shape Up occupies the same territory, serves the same function, as Those Various Agile Methodologies. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

What makes Business of Software Conference speakers so smart? I’m also reading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice and Frieda Kapor-Klein’s Giving Notice (a book about why it’s hard to keep a diverse workforce due to unintentional bias). Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

The move to the cloud and to software-as-a-service (SaaS) models changed a lot of things about business. Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. In reviewing a feature. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. Business has changed.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

As we completed our due diligence on Aptrinsic, we were blown away by the quality of their team and product. While Gainsight and Aptrinsic both see an opportunity for something greater by coming together, we’re keeping the teams structured in a way that the encourages the same agility and agency that got Aptrinsic to where it is today.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Author: First Round Review. Answer: The cost of maintaining new code. The more complex you make your product, the higher the cost of altering that code afterwards. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. Author: First Round Review (or at least someone from there…). Author: Henrik Kniberg.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. The main component of the system is three techniques that come from Agile/Scrum: Research : Studying the problem and trying to understand the different ways you could solve it, thinking of pros and cons. running in a production environment.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

Software is never done—there are always more features and functions you could add. So how much should you budget for a custom software project? At Atomic, we like the term “responsible budget”—one that gives you enough capital to create software that starts paying for itself. How much is this software worth to you?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

A strong engagement management process keeps complex, custom software development projects on track for success. This is the fourth post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. Fixed quotes are more appropriate for pre-developed software purchases or subscriptions.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

” Here’s a summary from phind.com , a ChatGPT-backed web search similar to (but better than, in my opinion) Bing Chat: In the Expanse series, “the churn” is a term used to describe the cycle of chaos, change, and upheaval that the characters face due to various factors such as political, social, or criminal turmoil.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Due to the constant evolution of the product manager’s role, in the startup world, often people become product managers by default, and they don’t quite understand how to take on this responsibility. Before working with Bain Public, we had been developing our software without a clear direction of where we were headed. Startup founder?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

This is the sequel to my post Shape Up Your Agile , about the book Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp ’s Ryan Singer. ” Traditional agile, let’s say Scrum for example, looks a bit different: “OK dev team! In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. See you soon!”

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Marty Hagewood, a software development manager at EMC Insurance Companies, experienced this first-hand. Large companies’ needs are becoming more complex due to emerging regulations around privacy and security. Agile development. Sri joined as Atlassian’s first CTO in January 2016, shortly after our initial public offering.

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Atomic Spin PM

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

It’s also beneficial to review your guidelines at a few different points during the project to make sure they still make sense for the team. Items discussed when the team is new may evolve over time and need adjustment, just like the software itself. Therefore, I recommend running an activity like this at the beginning of a project.

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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. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

At every Business of Software Conference we record all the speakers’ presentations so that you can learn from the array of talks on offer to our attendees. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and more – don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts recommending us to the world! Upcoming Events.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Another Harvard Business Review article, the way your team brainstorms doesn’t actually work.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. And so every product is three products, you multiply five times three got 15 code bases to deal with and it’s like quickly, you can’t do it as a small company. And it was a mess. That worked well.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 25, 2025

Mihika was one of the early leads on FigJam, Figma’s first-ever new product launch, and most recently, she pitched and launched Figma’s latest product, Figma Slides, which in my recent survey of readers is already ahead of Apple Keynote and tied with Canva as your most used presentation software. On the all-hands stage.

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