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. Meet the mentors….

Analytic Tools

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

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!

Analytic Tools

Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

Fractional CTO

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….

Analytic Tools

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

At the beginning, I was an intern UI designer and she was a senior UX, and she mentored me. For once, I felt I knew not only where I was going with my designs on my project but also our strategy and how the tech was progressing in parallel. When we started the trio, we had been working together for two or three years.

Product Research

Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. A junior product manager is also new to the role, but doesn’t require as much hands-on training as an associate product manager.

Product Management

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

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!

Analytic Tools

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. For example, if I’m doing lots of one-on-one coaching sessions then I would view this as research and ask myself how can I scale this delivery?

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. . 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] Hiring strategy. Coaching/mentoring/training plan. We learn by doing.

CTO Coach

Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

The Role of Fractional CTO in Enhancing Cybersecurity A Fractional CTO can provide invaluable expertise and guidance in strengthening an insurance company's cybersecurity defenses. This strategy encompasses robust policies, procedures, and technical controls to mitigate potential vulnerabilities.

CTO Coach

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Good salespeople are trained to unpack their prospects’ decision criteria and RFP processes in order to tilt the buying process. ” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes.

Roadmap

UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

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. Similarly, engineers are undergoing training and ongoing support to become familiar with the UI kit and our natively built platform.

Feedback Software

Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Either the day before or after the conference is dedicated to workshops with hands-on training in specific topic areas moderated by industry thought leaders. Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. hours of networking time.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

Reporting Tools

Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs. This allows them to pinpoint areas that need improvement.

Healthcare

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Head = how much of the culture emphasizes analytical ability, strategy, planning, etc. It’s obv that the creativity and hustle required to make Uber work in its early years has trained hundreds of entrepreneurs. Omg right?

User Testing

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

eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are other obvious benefits a local MSP may offer such as: local support with no time zone challenges, cost-savings, low latency and services such as on-site training. There are many articles available covering the benefits (and sometimes the cons), see: “It started with COVID, frankly.

Data Visualization

Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

From major players in the field such as Delphix and ADP to Okta, Lumen, and Glint, get ready to hear about Customer Success Operations, CS at Scale, CS Strategy, Human First Customer Success, and Product Experience. Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement.

Feedback Software

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Head = how much of the culture emphasizes analytical ability, strategy, planning, etc. It’s obv that the creativity and hustle required to make Uber work in its early years has trained hundreds of entrepreneurs. Omg right?

User Testing

Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance.

Webinar

Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not only that, but Forrester also recognized Atlassian’s strategy for enterprise service management with the highest possible score. Instead, we use our open integrations strategy to bring this capability to customers. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on.

Reporting Tools

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. And I do think that you know if a company loses money and is still paying bonuses you know there is a legitimate strategy for that right.

Weak Development Team

Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

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). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.

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

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

User Testing

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

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. 17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. ” #23 What is Good Product Strategy?

Article

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. Don't miss out - sign up now: Transcript.

Research Software

Roman Pichler

JUNE 9, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is Strategy? Strategy derives from the ancient Greek word strategos , which means army leader or general. 1] Today, there is an abundance of strategies—think of business, marketing, sales, technology, operations, and, of course, product strategy, for example.

Strategy