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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. But at a minimum, any good review should include: Straightforward Analysis : A straightforward report that grades aspects of your technology, processes, and team. Let’s assume that you’ve already expressed your frustrations with technical leadership.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman. Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career.

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills?

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. They will only join you for an executive role and probably demand to report directly to the CEO.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Here’s the interesting part: Every architectural layer has a middle manager who reports to the senior manager. That’s a relic of how we centralize “support” functions and report profit and loss to the outside world. That’s why I called it “typical.”

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

So I expect marketing audiences to snooze past improved reporting and geeky back office efficiencies in order to ask…. When they explained how they would know that a solution truly worked, what words did they use? (“As a small business bookkeeper, I spend hours hand-editing accrual report to turn them into cash-basis reports.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

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.