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. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. The post Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1 appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. 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.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. 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.” So, good practices become rules overnight.

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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. But it’s coming, he says, as the more global consultancies introduce the idea of discovery and continuous discovery to their clients in the region. Market Differences.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status. Maybe Moxie’s advisory contract had run out by then, or maybe they had a mini-GOT-gotta-finish-this-somehow brain cramp.

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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. But also of course, you’ve got a lot of questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. And, of course, through all of this, EMs must keep their projects on track. SWE do not usually spend much of their time in these ways.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Been there, failed that… I’m of course not saying that all startup CEOs are lousy, but the fact of the matter is if their startup failed they’ve probably earned a significant share of the blame. So who is better managed, your CTO (managed by you) or yourself (being managed by the board)? Ask the CEO and he’ll probably give you one?—?the

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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. . Of course, it doesn't hurt to be technical. In the short-term, sales takes product managers or tech leads on sales calls. Where is product management?

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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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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. 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.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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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. ” You wouldn’t hire somebody out with a 2-day scrum master course and say “ we can make them a software architect.”. Demanding clear commitments.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We began by offering short courses, growing out of the Massive Open Online Course movement coming out of the US, dubbed by Clay Shirky as education’s MP3. We now have 120 course creating partners, who have created nearly 500 courses, which have been taken by over six million learners from over 190 countries.

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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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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

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 ). We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. 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. In the course of a year working with them they just kept shrinking the team. I’ve had quite a varied career. The deal floundered.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. So I can actually force people to take the course. That’s an improvement.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

So I dropped in over at ObservableHQ to get up to speed on Observable Notebooks—only to find that Observable had changed course. Though Observable Notebooks are still alive and well (and will, I suspect, get even better , as of February, the company’s primary focus has shifted to what they are calling Observable Framework.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. Level 2 is hey I want you to handle this but give me regular updates so I can course correct along the way. They don’t know what you want them to do. I’m counting on you OK.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

And yes, of course, they are beautiful, and they are from Eastern Europe – but it doesn’t give you the right to give comments like that and to blame someone they got the promotion because of their looks.” So I’d encourage tech founders to provide this flexibility to their teams, but of course do not forget about the KPIs.”

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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. And of course, a model like this has to resonate with UX professionals as well.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

0:35 James Avery, Kevel: Yeah, we’re actually we, we decided to take a little break of locked out, of course, like everybody else, we’ve been stuck in our house, working from home, kids are going to school from home. Yeah, of course, like, revenue wise, like, we’re like, close to 10 million a year in revenue.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

But of which, of course, we just changed your minds, and we just launched something new recently, Mark Littlewood (7:00) Because you said at the time, that’s it’s one thing and you change the name of the company. And of course, she’d be an honour to do that. But broadly speaking, that’s how we handle things.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

Your best people in the office might not be your best people working remotely, right? So you want to have those course correction chances early on, so that you can adjust. So it’s like it is that you want you know, the more you can course correct early on, the better everybody feels. Yeah, I agree. Natalie Nagele.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. And of course, they have zero understanding of anything at all.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And that did me a great favor, that gave me like a great kickstart into this career.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

The Leaked Google Memo On May 4th, SemiAnalysis, a boutique semiconductor research and consulting firm, published a leaked internal document authored by a Google researcher. I’m talking, of course, about open source. Re-reading it again today, it’s as insightful as ever and worth another look. Plainly put, they are lapping us.

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