Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What’s In a Name? 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. So our first struggle is what to call this role.

Reporting Tools

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.

Technical Review

UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. For the record, I anonymized the name of our design system and the UI kit. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution.

Feedback Software

Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.

Analytic Tools

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. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both.

Fractional CTO

Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint.

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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. You know who you are!

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Clutch has named them one of the top app development agencies in 2018. for four consecutive years.

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

Reporting Tools

Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

Technical Advisors

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.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. We didn’t really know what to call this talk so we gave it this name. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. As a coach you hire yourself a coach inside the company to help you through.

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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.

Software Engineering

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 ). ” Super helpful. Teresa: That’s pretty common. Who was deciding on that output?

Product Research

Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 20, 2019

I went from being stumped to coming up with ten names of people I wanted to thank. The mentor who always takes his time to get lunch with you. The postal worker who always remembers your name. Introduction: Greeting (Hi/Dear/Hello [Name]). From there, you’ll likely remember others who deserve your thanks. Example #1.

Research Software

Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs.

Data Visualization

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. I know most people and I’ll try and remember other people’s names as long as you go through. Put your hands up. Right Max.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

Analytic Tools

Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

You also need to name KPIs for product people. 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. . #14 Product people KPIs aren’t about the product. Author: Chris Butler. 15 Enter the Matrix—Lean Prioritization. .”

Article

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

Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And Sam was, he became my first mentor right. And indirectly and he kind of like a good mentor made me work super hard.

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