The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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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? Or they may decide to move into management later in their careers. On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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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. Product Manager @ Microsoft & Top Product Management Voice Olga Mykhoparkina – CEO & Founder of Quoleady *Quotes have been lightly edited for clarity TL;DR When did you get into tech?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. So let’s start with the positioning, like what exactly is level jump?

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy. While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. Looked to new models for private jet aviation, managed a band, went and worked in film because I love film so much and found it intensely dull working for a blue chip company. I’ve had quite a varied career. I started economics at Cambridge. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Tweet This It’s clear from these results that focusing on a single outcome is still a minority position. 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 my experience coaching teams, this is not an automatic next step.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. And, unlike our products, no one’s getting paid to manage our careers on our behalf. Seeing the big-picture vision and possessing versatility enables product managers to impact, even when the spotlight falls on others instead. Optimize yourself with IMPACT.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth. I became more interested in UX and product, and over the years, transitioned to becoming a data & AI product manager.

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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 think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way.

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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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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Along with the obvious benefits like hosted infrastructure and unified user management, many long-time customers are discovering that migrating to our Cloud products also offers a chance to streamline the way they configure their Atlassian products and maximize the value they get. Work management for all. IT Service Management (ITSM).

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And then I’ve really only started companies as a byproduct of I have an obsessive personality and I channel that in a positive area which is like I’m obsessed with learning and getting better. And I don’t know I think most entrepreneurs are commitment phobic. So I was nervous about that. Online sales?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Remember when social media was going to be all things about positive change for the world and people had big banners that said “thank you Facebook”? Tim Barker: Hi everyone.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So we did a workshop with the sales guys and the account managers to try work out what this approval flow should look like based on the requirements from their customers. 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).

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. And when you start out you always need mentors. How do you define your product strategy?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then you want to go and really focus on those users and make sure that you’re in a position where you think you can out-serve them compared to any other company that’s out there. What’s one piece of advice you would give to somebody at each stage of their career: beginner, mid-career, and senior leadership?

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