Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

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. There’s a framework. There’s a framework. But it wasn’t quite that simple.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. If they go over budget, controls are activated to stabilize things and coach them to be more effective. We gave the team a structured framework for coming up with ideas and experimenting.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. So, SOC 2 is a framework. Caught your interest?

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

Insurance companies must ensure they have the necessary frameworks, policies, and procedures in place to meet these regulations, protecting customer privacy rights and avoiding penalties or legal repercussions. Below are only some of the ways they can help.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. This situation is very common and requires the founders to close many gaps in the way they think about product management in general and their product specifically (that’s where my mentoring services come in handy ). And are they even needed?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

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. Isn’t there some kind of framework that at least provides a clean separation of concerns between data and presentation?

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution. “In my 10+ years of career at our company, I have never seen the global enterprise speaking a single language of XYZ design and ABC UI kit.”

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. Not every mentor needs to be the same, and they shouldn’t be, they just need to be people you admire for who they are and what they do professionally.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The OKR framework can inspire teams and bring focus to an entire company. . The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. OKRs blend visionary objectives with measurable outcomes.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Head/Heart/Hands framework. I like this framework in that it says, hey, there’s no right tradeoff – it’s just different. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Tbh, #1 is the hardest! Longer discussion on this here. Also Kodiak, Kache, and many others.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Understanding and interpreting these complex frameworks can be daunting. By leveraging the knowledge and guidance of a Fractional CTO, healthcare companies can mitigate compliance risks, protect patient data, and ensure the delivery of high-quality healthcare services while maintaining regulatory compliance.

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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 ). That was my first introduction to the continuous discovery framework. What happened next?

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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? As was the case when they were junior engineers, Senior Software Engineers will usually help train or act as mentors for entry-level engineers on their teams. CTOs routinely lead all the technical or engineering departments at a firm.

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Product Manager in Heels

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I'd like to provide my own framework for what this feedback is, how to collect it and how to interpret it. 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. What is a 360? Resources: Blog: 360 Feedback What is 360 feedback?

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. With more drivers, rides would get cheaper and the wait terms would get shorter.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Head/Heart/Hands framework. I like this framework in that it says, hey, there’s no right tradeoff – it’s just different. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Tbh, #1 is the hardest! Longer discussion on this here. Also Kodiak, Kache, and many others.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Our Open DevOps framework extends the power of Jira, Bitbucket, Opsgenie, and Confluence with best-of-breed third-party integrations that let teams build custom toolchains with Atlassian at the center, coordinating it all. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. In the framework, how do organizations practicing SAFe ® expand capacity? It needs to be endorsed at the highest levels.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee. And he was a famous psychologist in the early 1900s and he came up with this framework for thinking about behavioral change.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO. 30 An alternate framework for PM. She discusses how the most popular framework that puts the PM in the middle of UX, Tech, and Business may not be the best.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Look to India, where an elite ecosystem of developers delivers world-class results at a fraction of domestic costs. The country’s robust STEM education ecosystem produces developers proficient in cutting-edge technologies, from advanced AI/ML frameworks to cloud architecture, mobile development, and enterprise solutions.

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