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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . We learn by doing.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

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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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development. We find that Product Owners and development teams need advanced skills and training in backlog refinement. This ongoing refinement work is the key for rapid and incremental delivery of product value while optimizing the productivity of the development team.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. Previously he was the Head of Product for the Yahoo incubator Brickhouse where he developed the pioneering location sharing project Fire Eagle. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. Investments in interview skills coaching, data analytics, activity tracking?

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Webinar Recording: Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning and AOP with SAFe® for Agile Organizations

Agile Velocity

At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level. Now, how do you do that?

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