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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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. An authority-interest matrix drives the PM in how to manage these stakeholders, but can only be done after you identify them. More About The Product Mentor. Check out the Mentors & Enjoy! Better Decisions.

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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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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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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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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Now that you know how to mentally calm yourself down, you are in a better frame of mind to bring people together. Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. The cost is $2 while I’m working towards my Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Deeply understand core systems and how other applications interact with them.

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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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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.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. They couldn’t figure out how to use the product, and it looked really dated.

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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 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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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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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The most successful teams I've coached have one or more people in each role. But for the long term, let's get marketing to solve this for all sales teams—with an ebook or a video explanation by our CTO for the reasons behind your choices. . for the products available today. Where is product management? Ideally the team works as one.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. Todd Jackson explains working through tough problems and knowing how to balance multiple interests being a product manager and CEO. Author: John Cutler.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. How I learned that aligning 20 people is easier than arguing with the CEO. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO.

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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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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Predicting results is extremely difficult in any environment, and Adam and Dave sought to acknowledge this difficulty while providing real advice around how to pivot and respond to market changes using improved efficiency and allocation of resources. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level.

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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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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. Secondly, I gotta understand how to contextualise all the alternatives.

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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. And in fact how the concept came about was a bit of fortune if you like. But we also had to try and think about how to become a no brainer. And this was a great concept. million to date.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The conversation is not over until everyone knows how to confirm their shared understanding by identifying how each story will be demonstrated and validated. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes.

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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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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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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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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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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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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

While you might be eager to dive in, it can be a little overwhelming to know how to get started. How do you make the most impact without confusing your team or disrupting the projects they’re already working on? Do you have any ideas of what it could look like or how it might work? .” Who was deciding on that output?

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Since my last blog on Cloud repatriation an interview on Cloud Workload Repatriation with Deloitte’s David Linthicum has been published discussing the characteristics of workloads that are appealing to bring back on-premises, see: Cloud Workload Repatriation with Deloitte’s David Linthicum – The CTO Advisor Some information on recent features (..)

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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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