Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. Here’s the thing.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

Each pod is assigned a clear job-to-be-done, such as improving sales engagement or forecasting accuracy, and takes full ownership of the product development process.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, the large number of tasks allowed them to see that knowing how to delegate could help them avoid being overwhelmed. At the beginning, I was an intern UI designer and she was a senior UX, and she mentored me. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

This is another look at how open innovation has evolved and the 12 principles to make it work for an organization…(1) purpose, (2) partner, (3) platform, (4) possibilities, (5) plan… Read what open innovation 2.0 IBM inventor shares how to innovate without costly R&D. is about and the details of all 12 principles at [link].

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. For example, if I’m doing lots of one-on-one coaching sessions then I would view this as research and ask myself how can I scale this delivery?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? Here’s why and how. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. If they can’t be the professional mentor of the product manager, what is it that they should be doing?

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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. You need to figure out how to all have shared goals on the team, while still respecting people’s desire to operate in the way they feel they works best. The right people need to be making the right calls.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. To combat it, we have to first understand how to recognize the voice of the Inner Critic. Learning how to shift our focus away from negative thoughts.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

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. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan. Or have seniors on your team formally assigned to mentor the novices. We develop good product reflexes.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

But the lessons the team needs to learn are: how to make good decisions, how to make trade-offs, how to prioritize, and when to take on debt. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. Rules include boundaries, prioritizing, stopping, how-to, coordination, and timing.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). How would you go about doing this? getting a promotion. writing a book.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

.” Uri is dedicated to creating impactful startups that solve real-world problems and has seen everything from failure to moderate success to big success.

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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. Some of his other early tasks in the trio involved doing research into the data they had available and learning how to query databases. “We

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal.

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UX Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

A few highlights: JPMorgan launched a ChatGPT-like internal tool (“IndexGPT”) to assist wealth advisors with research. Morgan Stanley rolled out a GPT-4 powered assistant for its financial advisors (to query internal research databases). This suggests UK banks are coordinating on how to implement GenAI within regulatory guardrails.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

Start by defining your long-term career goals and envision where you want to be in 5 or 10 years.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Tamar has served on the board of directors for RetailMeNot, ServiceNow, Snyk, and Yext.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Sign up for “How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia. TL;DR Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is an author, speaker, coach, and the founder of Product School. Carlos's session explores how leading product teams navigate digital transformations and harness AI for success.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Cindy is the author of Lean Customer Development: How to Build Products Your Customers Will Buy. He is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In this episode, we sat down with Adam to learn everything about the SOC 2 framework, how to create a culture of security from scratch and how automation is key to turning a headache into a smooth operation. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

We wanted to understand how long a team had been working on the same directional outcome even if the target changed quarter over quarter. It takes time to learn how to impact a metric and the longer a team spends on an outcome, the more impact they’ll have. In my experience coaching teams, this is not an automatic next step.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

How to Transitioning to EM from SWE Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash The vast majority of engineering managers begin their careers as individual contributors (IC), usually as software engineers. They have to know how to competently manage people and projects, as well. Sit down with a coach from Google, Amazon, or even Facebook!

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. 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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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Author of the bestselling “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Ken Norton, Senior Operating Partner at Google Ventures. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer The CTO is responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He is now a full-time growth advisor and angel investor who helps consumer subscription companies build their growth models, develop their growth strategies, hire and scale their growth teams, and achieve their full potential. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. In the end, I found a name that I think works well for both (ask me again in 5 years): Crafty CTO / craftycto.com for the entity, with the blog living at CraftyCTO.com/blog.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career. And certainly, with the pandemic, with kids being out of school and working remotely, we’re all learning how to do things in a new way. But the intention is, how do you close gaps?

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Wodtke includes a section which describes how to run an OKR planning session. The scenarios and characters are realistic and familiar.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

This article provides advice for product managers on how to overcome this tension with the PLT and how to improve that relationship for the greater good of the product roadmap and its success. Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

My order of operations when I sit down with a startup to figure out how to grow their new product. Usually the answer is no :) I look at retention rates, DAU/MAU, session lengths, how many visits are driven via push notifs, etc etc. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

But I have reached what people call financial independence which is such a foreign concept to me no one in my family or anybody really that I know has had this happen to them and so I really have no idea how to deal with this. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. That’s the proper answer. Loneliness.

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