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The Effort:Experience Ratio | Ruth Everard, DragonMobility | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, Ruth shares some of her experience growing up with a severe physical disability that have led her to think very hard about her own goals, values and priorities in comparison to the energy they expend to achieve.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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 Positioning Strategy In Economic Volatility: Lessons From The Obviously Awesome April Dunford

Gainsight

” Recently, April sat with Ryan Toben, Senior Vice-President and General Manager for Gainsight in EMEA, and Mickey Alon, Gainsight’s Chief Technology Officer, to discuss product positioning, especially during an economic downturn. . What Product Positioning Is and Is Not. That’s not the only thing changing.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

But the challenges you may experience pale in comparison to what you get to be in return. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Head of Product or Product Director. They will gain an understanding of design and development of new products.

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Stop Selling Your Product, Start Selling Your Point of View | April Dunford | BoS USA Online 2020

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Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So your buyer, Google’s they, so they end up on one of these comparison sites. And comparison sites will give them charts that look like this. And I ended up at sites like software advice, or jeetu.

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Our Q2 FY22 letter to shareholders

Atlassian

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. A fond farewell.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. If you’d been the hard-nosed micromanagement CEO, everyone would have left because you needed to create a combined spirit that we can dig our way out of this drama, like to build kind of the technology in the business around that. But maybe they were volunteers.