Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, a team might spend a year focused on increasing engagement. I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

For example, their network of realtors will give advice that’s consistent with what they teach and won’t encourage fans to buy homes they can’t afford. The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. for example, we are working on a plan to enter a new market?—?or

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. This can come from employees, who are already accustomed to traditional methods of working, as well as leadership, who may not fully understand the value of a digital transformation.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random. We’re leading by example. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This is precisely where larger organizations require trusted advisors—experts who can navigate new technology initiatives, assess their value, and determine whether they’re truly worthwhile. Can you share an example of a major project or initiative in healthcare technology that inspired you? Connect with Michael on LinkedIn here.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. For example, encryption methods, access controls, secure data storage, and audit trails are important elements of security.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé? Keep things short and sweet while focusing on real-world examples of how your accomplishments made an impact.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

For example, try out variations of the following - “Great idea. Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. If you enjoy exploring these topics and believe you would benefit from discussing them further, book a coaching session with me here.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. For example, suppose a freelance software engineer wants to increase their salary. We've got your covered.

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Product Manager in Heels

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For the organization: improved communication, more open culture, improved team working and mutual understanding, and improved leadership skills / capabilities. For example, I work under the technology department and asked my boss, and the CTO to fill it out, as well as the other PM and the Director of Development.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?

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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 ). ” I posted an example of this in Slack , too. Who was deciding on that output?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then I worked there, and have grown with the company, and have seen a lot of different phases and stages, and found different people to be mentors, and learned different things. You can break down win rate in a number of different ways, for example, by competitor. And when you start out you always need mentors.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Meeting notes app-maker Hugo is a great example of the impact the Atlassian ecosystem has for our partners. Take test management, for example. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. Today, there are nearly 4,000 Atlassian under Sri’s leadership.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then I worked there, and have grown with the company, and have seen a lot of different phases and stages, and found different people to be mentors, and learned different things. You can break down win rate in a number of different ways, for example, by competitor. And when you start out you always need mentors.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

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. I you know I think this this is certainly the case in this example for me I knew these guys. And I think in this example really sort of like highlights it for me. And this was a great concept.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

This is my design process and I’ve got some examples of what I’ve done recently. So here’s an example of what we did this at MOO.com. Here’s one example at MOO. Employers are having the same problem hiring across tech. So before I begin I wanted to give you some context about the design process.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. So my intention here is to show you great examples of this third way of working.

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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. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And so jeetu crowd is a great example. I don’t have as many customers as HubSpot does, for example, who by the way isn’t even sales enablement. So let me give you an example of this. And what do I see there?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And Sam was, he became my first mentor right. And indirectly and he kind of like a good mentor made me work super hard.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great. But maybe they were volunteers.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 9, 2025

1] Today, there is an abundance of strategies—think of business, marketing, sales, technology, operations, and, of course, product strategy, for example. For example, the business strategy guides the portfolio strategy, which directs the product strategy. It might be filled by an experienced agile coach or Scrum Master. [4]

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

I’d be very curious to know if anybody’s got examples of some, some larger organisations who are taking a similar approach, because there do seem to be a few different tracks around this work from home thing from the gym, we’ve just got to get up. You know, that helps them in that way as well. Mark Littlewood. definitely.

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