The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. The complexity of what we were trying to accomplish became more evident as each day passed. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Getting groups of stakeholders to “buy” the roadmap includes answering their unspoken questions. 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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And you need to understand how the groups differ. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. She also provided strategic advice to Fortune-500 companies as a Management Consultant.

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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. The Head of Product or Product Director usually leads a product team that is responsible for a specific group of products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. Specifically, they will find that they have a much starker lack of free time. SWE do not usually spend much of their time in these ways.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Bob founded The Re-Wired Group, which helps clients learn how to innovate and improve product development practices. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Elizabeth Pek, Director of Experience Design at BT Financial Group. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. Richard Marr, APAC Regional Director at Auth0

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 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. .

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. 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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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 placed into an office that I shared with the company’s CTO and their head engineer. One is that you get laid off. You get the point.

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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. Design Thinking 101’ by Nielsen Norman Group. Reference: Design Systems 101 by Nielsen Norman Group.

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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. A lot of the companies that we were working with said gala got a Gala Group before they joined to Coral and our big owners were LeisureLink.

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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. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.

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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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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. These words have a major effect on the groups they’re marginalizing. Paving a way forward.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The concept of a Structured Conversations is a useful tool for group collaboration and innovation. EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes. This ongoing and systematic approach is called the Structured Conversation.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We needed something that would scale with us today. A fond farewell.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of the things when I realized that we might raise money, again, is I realized I didn’t want to raise from that traditional kind of VC group. I mean, obviously, like we talked to, some like growth equity groups actually is a really good way to eliminate the ones we didn’t really want to work with right now.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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. It’s like a better way of sharing materials with a group.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). We did focus groups, folks did taxi ridealongs, we did some UX prototype testing, and so forth.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Apart from providing an in-depth overview of the Sacramento web design group, we’ve collected a few frequently asked questions clients ask while looking for a design partner. As an expert design agency, we offer digital product design, user experience research, UX consulting and training, customized solutions tailored to our clients’ needs.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle. My goal has always been to positively impact the lives of people going through life-changing diseases whilst also forging the way for other female leaders in the technology industry.” ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. Moeller – Maersk.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Laura: Exactly. I’m in Silicon Valley.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

The reason why it’s so hard for the first group to believe that the second group exists is because they’ve never seen it. Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. Both are true. of respondents chose only one option.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from the recent INDUSTRY conferences: Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant, Author, and Trainer. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Sir Richards Branson, Founder at Virgin Group. Jason Fried, CEO & Co-Founder at Basecamp. BJ Novak, Acclaimed Actor & Author. Barak Obama, Former President.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I used to play with friends online in groups. So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. Kevin: Absolutely.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

The next is February 6th – 8th, 2017 in New York City, and aims to raise the question “what’s next in design, for professionals, consultants, studios and enterprises alike?” The next event is October 31st – November 6th and past speakers included Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt, and Mark Little, CTO of General Electric.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Below you’ll find great talks from April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome), Bob Moesta (Founder, The Re-Wired Group), Laura Roeder (Founder, MeetEdgar), and many many more. We know that trying to take in over a dozen talks all at once isn’t easy, so we’ve broken them down into easy to digest groups: Product.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. But once we make that decision as a group, I need you to stop dissenting and I need you to get on board and support the decision. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. But we’re now going to have two concurrent groups of teams working on two concurrent products. Like it’s sometimes it can be months. Other times it can be days. Jason Fried Okay.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

The Power of CS from an Investor POV Nello Franco Managing Director Vista Consulting Group, Christina Kosmowski President of LogicMonitor, and Kevin Meeks CCO Apptio share their perspective on the power of Customer Success from an Investor Point of View. What a show this will be!

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