The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. 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. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. Other considerations include an exit strategy and the capability to scale and diversify after the initial launch.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. and during?—?the the search process. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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. Your competitors are using product-led growth strategies. Another winning strategy that dominated many of the conversations at Pulse was product-led growth (PLG).

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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. Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.)

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

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. I’m a train wreck of career decisions, nothing has been intentional,” John says. Then he’d become distracted and/or bored.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Yet their paths, strategy, roadmap prioritization were not well decided, if set at all. So who is better managed, your CTO (managed by you) or yourself (being managed by the board)? He’s a startup strategy consultant and the founder of Y-Perspective Consulting. I argue otherwise. Who’s your boss?

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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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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. And what’s that strategy, and how does that fit into what problem we’re trying to solve? Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2019

We’ve brought in speakers who have experience taking companies through these problems, either as CEOs/Founders scaling their own companies, or as consultants helping SaaS companies to take the leap into growth. CTO/Co-Founder of Mixcloud Mat Clayton seems like a perfect person to answer this question.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Even if you have a smaller team—say with three to five product professionals—you could have at least one responsible on strategy, one on technical planning, and one focused on product growth. If you’re telling engineering precisely what to build, you’re not a product manager. for future products and services, Planning.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a result, the CPO can facilitate product-led growth by developing a vision and strategy that fosters seamless production. These goals will be clearly defined in a product vision statement, which should make sure your team “gets excited about building the product” Developing a product strategy. Developing product vision.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] Hiring strategy. 2] Driving Outcomes, Strategy, Tools. Portfolio-level strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

market, localization strategy between Japan and the U.S., It is a new experience and there are new competitors; the product along with the marketing and branding strategy will need to be localized for the new market. More About Michael Rosenzweig] Michael was a consultant for 3 years at Ernst & Young in Japan.

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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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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. We’ve helped provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level.

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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. How many/how long?”

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. Everybody needs to have a strategy. He was like right okay we’re gonna draw up the contracts now. Which he did.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Here are some recent trends and developments in the cloud computing space: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption: Many organizations are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers. Book a free consult today.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. We take so much pride in the work Intercom is doing to take a stand against racial injustice.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. 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. Don't miss out - sign up now: Transcript.

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