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Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

Lenny Rachitsky

Simplify security Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, coach, and advisor. Through her course and one-on-one coaching, she’s helped thousands of operators, founders, and product leaders master the art of influence through clear, compelling communication.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

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Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. For more, check out her LinkedIn and her blog. . See the example in the template.

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

About 12 years ago, I was an executive advisor on a project at a large telecommunications company. I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues.

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Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

Product Talk

At the beginning, I was an intern UI designer and she was a senior UX, and she mentored me. Many said it is an iterative process that requires a lot of repetition and use internal trio models or even decide that the first trio must exist at the management level (CPO/CTO/ Head of Design) before it can be implemented in teams.

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

Product Talk

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. Sergio says their squad regularly refers to The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. But how do you build a healthy team to begin with?

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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Lenny Rachitsky

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit. Find 6 to 8 B2B customers, or 15 to 25 B2C customers, and make something they are willing to recommend to other people. Also, consider their interest in engaging with you as a demand signal.

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How a multinational insurance company is managing design at scale through a design system

UX Planet

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution. Reference: Design Systems 101 by Nielsen Norman Group. For the record, I anonymized the name of our design system and the UI kit.