The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Laura Klein: Since the mid ’90s, I’ve done research, I’ve been an engineer, I’ve done user experience design, and now I do product management. What collaboration is and isn’t.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Information has never been so accessible – the world’s knowledge is quite literally at our fingertips. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As a case in point, the team should prioritize creating enabling specifications that are most useful for regulatory compliance, reference information for product support, and for team members who don’t have domain knowledge. Backlog refinement is the engine that drives ongoing delivery of valued product increments. Conclusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Caught your interest?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. It helped me structure the product team and how our team interacted with the engineering team. Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust.

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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap. DEVELOPMENT.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I’m also reading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice and Frieda Kapor-Klein’s Giving Notice (a book about why it’s hard to keep a diverse workforce due to unintentional bias). Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO. Kate Leto, Product Coach.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. A competent product manager may understand the basics of customer feedback, but successful product managers know how to empathize with customers during the interview process and read emotions and body language to assess pain points and inform product development.

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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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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team. If you use the roadmap planning meeting as a time to convey new and important information, then you are surprising your leadership team. Think for the product leadership team!

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. 12 Six Steps to Superior Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer. Are you worried about that one metric for your product or maybe velocities for your engineering team?

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel. So David, who’s the VP of Engineering, and I think about what should the groups be? On finding the right balance in team composition.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Its AI engine analyzes intent, sentiment, and context to personalize interactions, and when necessary, seamlessly transitions conversations to human agents. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We recently added Percept.ai A fond farewell.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re not giving them enough information. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. And then finally informed means we’re gonna keep you in the loop but we’re not going to hold off making any decisions.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Hopefully It’ll be informative for you. We had engineering in Reading – anyone from Reading in here? One is we’ve got funding, we need to hire to a plan which says we should have this many salespeople this many engineers – let’s get hiring because there’s such competition in the market. Transcript.

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