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Blog/Website Relaunch: Under the Hood of craftycto.com

Crafty CTO

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both.

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

Business of Software Conference

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. You need a team who’s well-versed in technology and capable of translating that know-how into pragmatic options. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Positioning Jujitsu | April Dunford | BoS Conf Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

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. take on a large competitor by literally naming them and then positioning them into a corner – using their own positioning against them.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart. That’s why I called it “typical.” Maybe you have a Database Director, too. See Part 2.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

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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How a multinational insurance company is managing design at scale through a design system

UX Planet

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. For the record, I anonymized the name of our design system and the UI kit.