Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. We take care of most of Intercom’s backend technologies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

While the movement has helped spark awareness over the stubborn gender gap in the tech industry, helping to drive more diverse hiring initiatives across all businesses and encouraging women to succeed in STEM fields, women still hold an astonishingly low percentage of tech roles according to recent data – 16% in engineering, 27% in computing.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . Unfortunately, technical debt can do that to your team. No wonder Forbes calls technical debt the silent company killer. . And that’s on a good day. . What is Technical Debt?

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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. To learn from mistakes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. Cyber attacks have gone up 125% from the previous year, and with companies shifting to partial or fully remote settings, it shows no sign of slowing down. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. But despite these differences, Farhan Virji, VP of Customer Happiness at Later, believes that there is actually quite a lot that B2B support teams can learn from their B2C colleagues.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. The feeling of underinvestment is very common in product teams. Team allocation scenarios. The Problem.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. What does your team and company need?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. More here.)

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

This insightful article from McKinsey & Company talks about today’s product manager evolving into a mini-CEO. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Author: Jonathan Golden. 4 One Door at a Time.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Ford Motor Company has used this approach for decades. He is the Global Manager External Alliances Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. My team is responsible for our global R&D alliances with universities, national laboratories, and a few companies. Another approach is a partner program.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? What Is a Chief Product Officer? . of a Chief Product Officer.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. My team’s lead engineer stopped what he was doing and announced to the all-male room, ‘Looks like the token female engineer has arrived.’ And the response was overwhelming.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

This generally happens when the company is forced to reduce its workforce because they’ve run into financial problems or a contract got canceled or they are closing a branch office. I was working in one of their branch offices that had about 30 people working in it. One is that you get laid off. This is why they brought me in.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We analyzed dozens of Sacramento web design companies at UX studio to create our independent list of best-rated Sacramento web design firms. This article summarizes companies that offer product design services and the most frequent questions to help you pick the best web design company in Sacramento, California.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. Automating ways to understand how consumers feel about content is a product specialist’s dream at companies today.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. companies that everyone agrees are awesome at what they do.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Looked to new models for private jet aviation, managed a band, went and worked in film because I love film so much and found it intensely dull working for a blue chip company.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr. What’s your story?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

We hear about his time at Atlassian before G2 and the differences in approach to SEO at both companies. We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Before it became a world sensation, the company was called Tiny Specs, and their initial product had nothing to do with collaboration in the workplace. The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Previously, he was at HubSpot as Chief Product Officer after they acquired his company Performable. In this (fireless) Fireside chat, we delve into what inspires and motivates David, how he came to start five different companies, and how he leads a high-growth company. What was the first company?

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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.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In his talks Peldi updates the BoS Community on the story of Balsamiq, and the ups and downs that come with running a growing, bootstrapped SaaS company. And I’ve made 10 million euros out of this little company.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. So I started my company which is called Bluefish 20 years ago in Austin Texas.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having gender- and cultural-equitable teams, where a multitude of voices and perspectives collaborate to further our innovative work.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people.

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