TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

These agents would of course be able to reason, plan, use tools, have memory, short-term, long-term memory, and they’ll be amazing amazing agents, but how does it change the development process in the coming years?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. Why Shouldn’t a CTO be the Boss? So if they report to the CTO it creates the impression of bias against the business and user. How can CTOs Help? If you’re a CTO, what can you do to help your product managers?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. This is a safe choice, of course - but is it the best choice? A CTO can help you find the right answers. What does the role demand?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. The role of product management is extremely in flux.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Bianca first learned about continuous discovery in a product management course at her previous company. While the course didn’t go into the specifics, it introduced the concept of opportunity solution trees. Up until she enrolled in the course, she’d mostly been learning and trying to apply concepts on her own. “It

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Darragh Curran , our Chief Technology Officer, emphasizes how promoting diversity has to be more than just a question of how we hire.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. Most companies don’t need all these tiers of course, so it’s important to think about how this fits in to your organisation. One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

And so our former CTO and co-founder Ciaran Lee decided we were just going to start. Of course, there were consequences to this decision: teams were at lower capacity; project members had to straddle multiple daily standups; and other projects had to be deprioritized.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). While the IT team might be the hands that deploy your product, the CTO is the one who ultimately needs convincing. Check out our product management courses , product marketing courses , and product demo courses for more on personas. Want to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO. A few years ago, John also discovered his passion for teaching.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Of course, keeping tactical work aligned with company goals and vision is a critical part of any successful product manager’s job , so this trend to ask for more “strategic thinking” from product people can feel like an invitation to take on more meaningful and high-status work. CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

There's no set path or career trajectory (besides a background in computer science, of course). Given that Directors of Cloud Infrastructure are on the executive team, they will report directly to the CEO or CTO. Chief Technology Officer Truth be told, this position does not require much introduction.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. Appeal to people’s self-interest.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Just kidding, of course, they were all very nice and happy to help. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one Naturally, I relied on the very talented people at the company to share their insights with me. I asked so many questions, that I was surprised anyone still wanted to talk to me.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. Of course, the number changes from company to company and between different states of the same company, but it should be set and respected.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? These duties and responsibilities are just scaled up, of course. They will work directly with the C-Suite (usually the Chief Technology Officer) and play an integral role in the executive-level technical decisions of the company.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. In AsiaPac cultural norms may dictate that an office-based, face-to-face business culture dominates (Photo: Shutterstock).

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

Of course, the complexity will be required in order to provide these results and meet expectations, but nobody has to know about it. I just type in my interests and your algorithm provides the most popular titles instantaneously. And the community on the platform is awesome. Landed my dream job by using your networking feature!!

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Her actions also, he maintains, changed the course of Apple’s and Microsoft’s history. She teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams. Hickman had to convince the entire company to move to a new way of working and doing business.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 14, 2021

Breakout Sessions are your chance to share ideas and challenges about things that matter to you in a smaller group – with experts in their field and, of course, speakers. They’re often described as the most valuable part of the event.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

I show this to point out that here is one of the most culturally influential people in modern memory, whose shadow loomed large over several generations of our industry, and there’s this theme hiding in plain sight that he kept returning to again and again and again over the course of decades. So there’s probably some of that.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. In most companies, the chief product officer and chief technology officer are two separate entities that work together to ensure a company’s goals are achieved. Innovation. The Product Team Structure.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. What is a staff engineer?

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

In this meeting they bring together a few senior leaders at the company (CEO, CTO, head of strategy, and senior eng leader) to decide the projects for the upcoming 6-week cycle based on the pitches that were prepared to be reviewed. Of course not every ticket is created equal so this gives you a poor sense of project progress.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer). In some other companies, product management (along with project management), roles up to the CIO (Chief Information Officer).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Of course, it also makes audits go faster and cost less. And, of course, challenging – as it should be. All of that, of course, to say leverage automation to do it. The advice we give is, of course, don’t wait. Am I right?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And if the people don’t live up to them, if metrics are not met, then you need–of course–more structure, more rules “to fix Scrum.” Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO. It turns out that Scrum seems to be well suited for becoming a victim of cargo cult agile. And rules need to be enforced.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But as an executive leader in your organization, whether you’re a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or the primary sponsor of a product development team, there are several things you can–no, should –do to greatly increase the chances that design can make a difference to your organization’s bottom line.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. That’s why I called it “typical.” ” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. The middle managers—the directors—often reflect layers in the architecture. They matrix people into teams.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

If you want help building your outcome mindset, check out our Defining Outcomes course. Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. You can start to build your own outcome mindset before your organization catches up.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. Of course, the same applies even if you are not a founder and find yourself in this situation. These founders have many great qualities, but many times prior product experience isn’t one of them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Photo by Austin Distel / Unsplash Now, we've mentioned a few times that TPMs must collaborate with several teams in the course of their duties. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Over the course of the conversation you’ll learn not just about what makes a good leader, but a good ally, a good colleague, and a good friend. Liam Geraghty: An important tool for sharing knowledge is of course, Wikipedia. There we have it.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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