Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

First, my book of business on the fractional CTO side of things filled up completely, reducing available writing time. Thinking back on it, I see two causes. Second, the AI emergence , like Solomon Epstein’s ill-fated space yacht in The Expanse , just kept accelerating.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. Why Shouldn’t a CTO be the Boss? So if they report to the CTO it creates the impression of bias against the business and user. How can CTOs Help? If you’re a CTO, what can you do to help your product managers?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

— Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Simplify security.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. She is about to release new newest book, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

You may be familiar with some of their media such as radio shows, podcasts, and books, or their tools like the EveryDollar budgeting app. The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. To help people win with money.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

I’m really into processes—maybe it’s because of my service design background—so I bought the book, watched a lot of videos, and started to dive deep into the framework,” says Bianca. Bianca set up a Pendo Guide to recruit interview participants and quickly booked up all the available slots.

Product Research

Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

It is a multi-sided platform, connecting product managers and product people who want to exchange their used books. The platform is used for selling and buying used books. The books in this marketplace are business-related, especially in the field of product management and software development. Mark talks about a book search.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Adam: You’ve also managed to write two books. Laura: I’m glad you asked, because my CTO currently lives in Hawaii.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. This book inspired me to choose industrial engineering studies. Both books are highly recommended).

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Hi readers, I’m so, so excited that my upcoming book is dropping in one week, on December 7!! The Cold Start Problem , as the book is called, is about the secret that drives many of tech’s most successful products. I’ve been working on it for years, and am thrilled that it’ll finally be out.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. The remote workers of the world have already won. There are now endless options to choose from if you want to work from home.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. We have an entirely different approach. We’ve shaped our own way. Shape the work.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the first edition of Marty Cagan’s book ‘Inspired’, he said that for a product to succeed it must be valuable, usable, and feasible. The Dual Role of the Product Leader When you look at the product leader’s role (code name: CPO) compared to their peers (namely CMO, CTO, CRO, CFO), the product leader’s role stands out.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Chesbrough wrote his Open Innovation book in 2003. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. .

CTO Coach

Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Here are a few recommendations, based on my professional experience as well as my research for a forthcoming book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“I’m speaking at conferences, doing coaching calls, writing blog posts – I’ve also just finished a book for the company that took three months to write – that’s what I’m up to day-to-day.” ” Being a Trusted Expert. I do this to learn and to help them.”. If those things didn’t change, I would get distracted.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. whether or not we should do something.

User Testing

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

He’s the author of two of the most foundational books for product teams and product leaders ( Inspired and Empowered ), he’s the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (one of the longest-running product advisory groups), and he’s almost certainly worked with more product leaders and teams than any human alive.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. Adrienne recently contributed to two Product Management books; 42 Rules of Product Management and the 42 Rules of Product Marketing.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

writing a book. reading more industry news and books. Why do I want to start a podcast or write a book? Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). getting a promotion. finding a new job.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But pretending to be able to practice “agile” by taking a shortcut, for example, by reading some books, has increasingly resulted in collateral damage to the agile community in general. isn’t learned from books or from attending training classes, but in the trenches when confronted with real problems and the urge to ship the product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. The remote workers of the world have already won. There are now endless options to choose from if you want to work from home.

Fractional CTO

Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. Visualizing Your Thinking: Experience Maps, Opportunity Solution Trees, and Story Maps One of the key themes in my book Continuous Discovery Habits is for teams to visualize their thinking.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. One of the seminal books that opened my eyes to a lot of product management was The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steve Blank. Honestly, it was that book that really helped me develop a lot of my thinking around it.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an These founders have many great qualities, but many times prior product experience isn’t one of them. Yes, you can do it even if they are more experienced than you are.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs. Book a demo to learn about its analytics, engagement, and feedback capabilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. If he didn’t fix it, he’d be fired.

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. At Booking, I took a similar approach in running the ski and beach organization, working closely with tech and design teams. How do you define the balance without micromanaging your teams?

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Book Review: ‘Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ Stephanie Hare, author of the recently published, ‘ Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics’ , will join us at Business of Software Conference Online next week, 9 March to talk about an important topic.

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