CTO CTO Coach Exercises 
Product Talk
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Former Staff UX Designer Maureen Rodaro was also key to implementing and evangelizing this type of exercise and a driving force behind pairing product managers and designers. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles. This means that each trio can adjust the RACI to their own experiences.
Product Talk
DECEMBER 18, 2024
As I coached teams on how to make better decisions about what to build, I often got feedback that it was messy. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. They take all the opportunities they’re hearing from their interviews and they do an affinity mapping exercise where they group similar opportunities together.
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Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 14, 2018
Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I started developing these exercises, and reproducing them in workshops. One exercise I use all the time – and it’s so easy for folks to do – is called “backing out.” It’s going to be great.”
Mind the Product
MAY 21, 2019
A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. If they go over budget, controls are activated to stabilize things and coach them to be more effective. Without boundaries, they may wonder what invisible restrictions might lead to arbitrary punishment.
Product Talk
AUGUST 14, 2024
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. The company brought in Marty Cagan ’s team to do some training and required all product squad members and leaders to read Continuous Discovery Habits.
Mironov Consulting
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
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. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.
Mironov Consulting
DECEMBER 31, 2017
These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. So I assume that roadmap reviews will surface deeper concerns like…. “Why aren’t we getting more done?”
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