Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Before joining the public sector she was a freelance consultant and has worked with clients including Virgin Atlantic, BBC, SonyBMG, HSBC, The Economist, Drupal and the University of Surrey. Dan Olsen, Author and Consultant. Prior to consulting he worked at Intuit, where he led the Quicken product team to record sales and profit.

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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

” Sales teams that need a particular enhancement will escalate, increase their predicted deal size, or apply the same organizational tools internally that we pay them to apply externally to our prospects. ” since development teams carry the weight of old code and poor tools and difficult release processes.

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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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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.

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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. Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team, a software tool that helps managers become better leaders.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Innovative technology provides the tools and approaches needed to tackle these issues effectively. Economic Growth The technology sector is a significant contributor to economic growth. Future-Focused Technology: Staying ahead of the curve means keeping an eye on tomorrow.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. So what are your next steps?

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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] 2] Driving Outcomes, Strategy, Tools. Shared tools and processes.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. I am interested in topics around handling general chaos in a fast paced company that is trying to move from being funded by consultancy to one funded by software license sales.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. So we know that the CEO is time-slicing to cover investor pitches and office space and recruiting and benefits and legal and setting product direction and stocking the kitchen with snacks.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

This involves using product feedback, which is a critical tool for any product team. How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? The average CPO’s salary varies depending on what source your consult. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. Ability to persuade.

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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. Today, it has transcended beyond being merely a designer tool.

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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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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

Having a budget model gives me much more insight and early management tools than getting a simple budget figure as a quote. I want my potential partner to have a good process and tools to help me manage the scope to fit my budget and schedule. What is the structure of the team you would assign to my project?

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation enable infrastructure to be defined in code, promoting consistency, repeatability, and scalability across environments. This involves assessing workloads, selecting the appropriate cloud service provider (CSP), and utilizing tools like AWS Migration Hub or Azure Migrate for a smooth transition.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

We’ve rewritten a number of software products and internal tools over the years and learned that they are uniquely challenging. To clean up the dataset, I removed design-only engagements, maintenance work, and projects that were strictly consulting. If it’s a Rewrite, Buffer More.

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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. Fortunately, we already use a search tool internally: an open source search engine called Hound.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

But as a software consultant, I need to be flexible, and I’ve done my fair share of Android development as well. Simple layouts can be tedious to specify in Xcode’s Interface Builder tool. I would say it’s been the primary focus of my career. See my post on Auto Layout Demystified.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. MetaLab reworked the company’s website and app, redesigned its logo, and created most of what users see when they interact with the messaging tool today.

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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

Confluence picks up where chat tools leave off. Confluence went from a tool used just by the technology organization to an enterprise tool used by the entire company. All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We use multiple tools to keep in touch with our clients. At the same time, we use Slack, Jira, and other collaborative tools to stay in touch without feeling the distance and work on common goals. If you are looking for a web design company in Sacramento, contact us to book a free consultation. Capitol Tech Solutions.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. Get customer validation with a variety of tools. There are a variety of tools to get early validation from your customers – use them!

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eG Innovations

APRIL 22, 2021

Here, at eG Innovations, we offer a wealth of monitoring and simulation tools to allow you to monitor what real users are experiencing when accessing Microsoft WVD. You can also use our tools to benchmark user experience when using different configurations for WVD. Ryan Mangan, CTO at Systech IT Solutions. Article / Blog.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“It became clear to us from the beginning that we had to find ways to give each team a space to organize their flags and prevent teams from stepping on each other’s toes when it comes to managing feature flags. ” – Patricio Echague , Co-founder & CTO, Split Software. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. I’m currently building a lot of internal tools to help folks do their jobs more efficiently—and to help them scale. Adam: You’ve also managed to write two books.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

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. ” Sabah Zdanowska founder, ventures consulting. Moeller – Maersk.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. Discovery Tools: Who is Using What If I think back 15–20 years ago and consider what we had to do to connect with customers, test our ideas, and tabulate results, we have come a long way.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

You can find some guys out there gals, like have a simple, simple tool that they just sell into the ground. It’s like, we’re We are an ad server, but we’ve layered on the API and the developer tools is what differentiates us from all these other ad servers, right. It’s like five engineers, 50. Salespeople.

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Userzoom

MAY 10, 2017

This includes technology and operations executives at our clients who purchase UX consulting services, but also people like the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer at ZS. Ultimately, however, the goal is Stage 4; we want to understand the solution being built in context.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 9, 2019

I’ve been working in custom software development consulting at Atomic for 15 years and have helped hundreds of companies evaluate us as a potential development partner. I might expand on this question by asking, “Will you stay focused on consulting? I believe strong consultancies work in a broad set of industries.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 16, 2019

Defining “Great People” I would look for two big things: Generalist product developers – I want to work with people who specialize in software product development and who take a generalist approach to technology. This is not the same as specializing in a certain software language/tool/technology. of is employees.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

There are three main aspects to sales: Planning, Selling , and Tools. Watch Rules & tools for scaling software sales. Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. . I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Watch Oops, I did a marketing. 6 // Harry Potter. See the answer.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Mikey is here to help you help your employees succeed with processes, tools, advice, and war stories from his experience as an entrepreneur. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Jason Fried is co-founder of Basecamp, a private company based in Chicago that builds the best web tools possible with the least number of features necessary. We’re best known for our product Basecamp which is a project management and collaboration tool We just launched a new thing called Hey recently which is a brand new email service.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement. Transparency on everything that is going on with the customer, what progress they are making, and via other tools helps build trust in the customer relationship. Document everything in a single source of truth.

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