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TPG Live Recap: Bridging Enterprise Customer Gaps & Leading Hybrid Product Teams

The Product Guy

Our roundtable featured experienced voices from product strategy, B2B SaaS, and startup innovation: Jordan Bergtraum – Head of Product, B2B SaaS consultant Kelvin Wilson – Founder & CTO, OD Sense Drew Falkman – Product strategy consultant and educator It was an interactive, real-talk discussion with great questions and insights (..)

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Your Product Shadow

The Product Coalition

Last month, I was having a virtual coffee with Sara, the CTO of a rapidly growing SaaS platform. STUDY WITH JAY: Product Shadow Powers 🗒️ Each week I share what I’m studying, with the world. This week I’m studying digital twins and the opportunity for SaaS. You know what saved us last month?"

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. . Too much reactive maintenance will stifle a company’s ability to innovate.

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How much do U.S. product managers really make?

Lenny Rachitsky

This proxy for job levels is not perfect, but it generates more valid and reliable data from which to create salary benchmarks, showing more granular differences among levels.

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What E-Commerce Performance Metrics Are CTOs Monitoring?

In this eBook, Danny Miles, CTO of Dollar Shave Club, reveals an efficient framework for thinking about and prioritizing the performance metrics that matter most to him, providing a blueprint for fellow e-commerce CTOs to follow as they evaluate their own business.

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Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

Lenny Rachitsky

When running meetings: Send an agenda with pre-read materials 24 hours in advance Use visuals to anchor discussions Present three options with a recommendation for decisions Real-time edit decisions and next steps Send follow-up notes within 24 hours Where to find Naomi Gleit: • Instagram: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] • Website: [link] (..)

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10 Experts On The Right Steps To Product Iteration

Arkenea

9 Take constant and incremental step towards the vision Simon Cast , CTO & co-founder at ProdPad If you have a product vision, I hope it’s big. It’s a worldview, something that you’ll be working towards in different ways, with different people and different technologies as your product grows and matures over time.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Whether you're a seasoned CTO or an industry trailblazer, this webinar will help make your product ready to meet the competition by adopting an architecture that is optimized for innovation. Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. The wrong organizational structure can create friction of all kinds.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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How an Enterprise CTO Boosted Uptime From 99.9% to 99.99%

In this eBook from Datadog, Orderbird CTO Frank Schlesinger tells the story of the company’s journey from 99.9% uptime to 99.99% uptime. He explains why this seemingly small improvement is actually a major leap and describes the five key steps to get there.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

We are excited to be joined by a CTO who is an expert in pragmatic choices around security. Naresh Soni, CTO of Tsunami XR, will take us through critical information to make smart choices in how to protect our organizations. He will cover: Types of vulnerabilities that need to be your focus today.