Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

If you’re telling engineering precisely what to build, you’re not a product manager. The most successful teams I've coached have one or more people in each role. But for the long term, let's get marketing to solve this for all sales teams—with an ebook or a video explanation by our CTO for the reasons behind your choices. .

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a product manager. Google Adwords.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team. Instead, present them with the information they need to know: outline the problem, AND the course of action you are recommending. Think for the product leadership team! Finally, don’t make the leadership team think.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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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 ). Full Transcript Teresa Torres: Welcome, everybody. I’m Teresa Torres. ” conversation.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

Though engineering, design, or business are the most common, some of the best product managers out there have come from customer support, QA, business analysts, and more. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. Product Manager.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

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. I said look I want to build this game engine from scratch how easy would it be. How am I going to actually…” But look at it look at the engine! And this was a great concept.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

If you want help building your outcome mindset, check out our Defining Outcomes course. In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). Let’s get more engineers involved in discovery!

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. We were delighted to have him join us for this week’s episode. Kevin: Absolutely.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé? Of course, what they say they want isn’t always what they need (or want), but it is a sneak preview of how they view product management today.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. non-engineering VPs, CEOs, CxOs) and their natural thinking/decision-making biases. Of course the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey has been taught to me by mentors and has been as staple throughout my career. Good to Great by Jim Collins.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic. So the team got to work.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. It won’t take much engineering. Engineers are bad at this. As in “I’m not a very good developer or project manager or sales engineer or whatever.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Level 2 is hey I want you to handle this but give me regular updates so I can course correct along the way. So this lets me kind of course correct a little bit if I need to or sometimes the business changes over the course of the quarter right. Super effective.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

How do we move things around, if you need to alternate your schedule, like our head of director of engineering, she posted her schedule, she’s like, here it is, like, I’m only gonna be here for two hours, and I’m gone for four hours with the kid, then I’m coming back. How do we cut your schedule down? Yeah, I agree.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

So this is me when I went to Disney with Greg who was 5 years old (he’s 16 now) and we just walked through the golden gates of Disneyland and of course as you know if you’ve been there as you walk down main street there’s a whole load of candy stores, temptations. We had engineering in Reading – anyone from Reading in here?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Strangely this exception of some really good physical product design courses like the one at Loughborough but it’s generally taught at art schools and it’s generally really behind the times so great designers have to learn on the job. Very few people emerge as a fully fledged designer. Crossed our fingers but actually no.

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