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. 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. And are they even needed?

CTO Coach

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. create a path to executive leadership. 2) 10x Thinking.

CTO Coach

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.

CTO Coach

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.

Product Research

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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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

She’s also held leadership roles at PayPal and eBay, serves on the board of Intuit, and is the author of Take Back Your Power. At Facebook, Deb led the creation of Facebook Marketplace, developed the first mobile ad product for apps, built the company’s games business, and launched Facebook Pay.

CTO Coach

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.

CTO Coach

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.

CTO Coach

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. He is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

Technical Cofounder

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. Block out time to learn as much as you can.

Software Engineering

Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

Leadership

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. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

Technical Review

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.

Reporting Tools

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.

CTO Coach

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. Inspiration is a critical part of leadership.

Technical Advisors

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.

CTO Coach

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. Deeply understand core systems and how other applications interact with them. We've got your covered.

Software Engineering

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

Technical Review

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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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.

Feedback Software

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? Teresa: In the earlier days, your leadership team was saying, “This is the feature we need for this customer.”

Product Research

Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

For Mixpanel, we’re going after digital native companies and the EPDs in them to help them make decisions about how to build their products, and that’s where we ended up. But I learned how to code and then I actually discovered Mixpanel building that app and used it, and was like “this thing is so cool.”

User Testing

Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

For Mixpanel, we’re going after digital native companies and the EPDs in them to help them make decisions about how to build their products, and that’s where we ended up. But I learned how to code and then I actually discovered Mixpanel building that app and used it, and was like “this thing is so cool.”

User Testing

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.

Webinar

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.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. 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).

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. 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. Managers and leaders are different.

Engineering

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. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

Reporting Tools

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. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. John Cutler discusses why change is important and how to do it and what to avoid.

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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. Google updates can put the SEO world into disarray, we hear from Kevin how he’s been impacted previously and how to mitigate against this in the future ( Spoiler: get ready to prune ). Kevin: Absolutely.

Analytic Tools

Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And so I kind of taught myself how to how to code how to do everything. And then I think one of my people like asked me not about how did I start/How do you start companies and I said like I don’t know; one of my advantages was that nobody ever expected anything of me like. There was no Stack Exchange.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So if you’ll hear about this from Bob [Moesta] later , but you know, my conclusion on this, if you look at this, like, on the one side, we’ve got customers that don’t know how to buy. And I really understand my value.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! Like I’m trying to figure out how to be there for people. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele. Mark Littlewood.

Weak Development Team

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.

Customer Experience