TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation? Are you ready?

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Additionally, there were several consulting and agency teams supporting all sorts of applications and building proof-of-concepts. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Some were even using InDesign for wireframing, while others handed off their designs in PDF files for stakeholder sign-off. “In

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur.

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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. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of constraints, and Jeff Cox. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. As we mentioned, engineering management is different from that of software engineering.

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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. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes. Ellen is author of two other acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger. Gottesdiener, Ellen and Mary Gorman. Sutherland, Jeff.

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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  And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) – Positioning Jujitsu from Business of Software Conference. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern. Feature flags provide software development teams with the necessary tools to have successful feature releases.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

What makes Business of Software Conference speakers so smart? In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. Like most smart people, they read a lot. This year’s book list is here.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft, for example, depends on manufacturers (Dell/HP) and retailers (Best buy) to sell its software. While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators. Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2019

Business of Software Conference Europe 2019, 11-12 April 2019, Cambridge UK. This April we’re running our 18th Business of Software Conference. Over the past 13 years we’ve spoken to hundreds of founders and CEOs of software and SaaS companies looking to scale their business. Not from Rich Mironov , though.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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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. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Watch Rules & tools for scaling software sales.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Stage 1: Bring In The Consultants Partnering with the right consultant during the ideation phase of your startup has several crucial benefits. Plus, consultants know how to help you get that first round of funding, which you’re going to need in order to launch your product.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They would then formulate a program charged with the software delivery, of which a TPM would manage. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Not work, work, work” I went to the Boston Consulting Group for a few years and then I went to business school at Stanford for a few years.

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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. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. He’s worked as a game developer at Simon and Schuster , as a producer at Nickelodeon , and had a variety of product roles at companies like Pendo and Zendesk , all interspersed with periods of consulting.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. And the damage is tainting the reputation of a great way to build software in complex environments. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.)

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 26, 2022

Geoffrey Moore , author and consultant, explained that SaaS companies have matured beyond simply developing product features to developing product experiences. The post PLG is essential for durable growth, and other key learnings from Pulse 2022 appeared first on Gainsight Software. It’s all available right now. .

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. As always, the #BoS2018 schedule is designed to help Software Founders, CEOs, and Product Managers lead with confidence and grow a better business. Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Startup founder?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 9, 2019

Finding the right custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget, and frustrating. Making useful, valuable software products takes a lot more than technical know-how. Evaluate the Software Firm First. The details of your project can come later.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge. Head of Product or Product Director. Internal Product Manager.

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