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Why Product Managers Should not Report to the CTO

Mind the Product

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. While this might have been the case in the early days of product management, it’s not anymore. 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.

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Building A Billion Dollar Business – Managing Objectives Against Rapid Growth | Poppy Gustafsson | BoS Europe 2019

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Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace. Sketchnote.

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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

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If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read

Hutwork

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. 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.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). I’ll speak at three conferences. 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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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

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Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. attendee from Businesses of Software Conference, both US, Europe and online. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers.

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How I Use Gainsight PX as a SaaS CEO

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Yet for many cloud CEOs, the only part of their business that they are the most blind about is the aspect that’s most existential to being a software company—namely the product. ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption.