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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

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. The role isn’t well defined, and processes and tools are evolving too. These tools mostly show initiatives.

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. And, of course, through all of this, EMs must keep their projects on track. So let's get to it!

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

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. We stopped using the system within a month.

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How do organizations innovate in the face of existential threats?

DISQO

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. In December, we hosted our inaugural event in Chicago to celebrate the opening of our regional office there. The technology changes but the people don’t.”. AJ’s body severely rejected the options, forcing Bombacino and his wife to improvise.

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How do organizations innovate in the face of existential threats?

DISQO

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. In December, we hosted our inaugural event in Chicago to celebrate the opening of our regional office there. The technology changes but the people don’t.”. AJ’s body severely rejected the options, forcing Bombacino and his wife to improvise.