TechEmpower - Product Management
JULY 24, 2023
Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? What’s the state of those systems?
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Are you moving towards a positive outcome, or away from a negative one? 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!).
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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? 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). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?
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. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.
Userpilot
MARCH 7, 2024
So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.
Atomic Spin PM
JANUARY 20, 2019
It spreads positivity by helping you notice and encourage the behaviors you appreciate around you. 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. Example #1. Example #2.
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. I think writing software would be fun” isn’t a strong selling point.
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