Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I hate definition wars. This definition is a mouthful, so I like to visualize it. Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. It is an absolute requirement.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

As product leaders we work with so many stakeholders, and we strive to include them in the product definition processes. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one Here is a quick guide to finding the right balance. one of the best cybersecurity experts I know to date?—?whether

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. In addition to sharing his perspective on the role of competition in product strategy, he also offers up his definition of a truly great product. Adrian started at the company back in 2010, when they were only 50 employees. You can follow Adrian on Twitter at @amcdermo.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Some of the things we talked about were operational overhead and cost of various data stores we were running, along with whether or not we needed to hire dedicated database administrators for various different technologies. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. That’s definitely how we move fast.

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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? By definition, freelance software engineers are not members of the organizations that employ them. Instead, these companies may simply employ engineering managers and a Chief Technology Officer to oversee them.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. If you treat your position as a chance to manipulate people into doing things your way, you’re definitely in the wrong job! There’s also a big difference between influence and manipulation.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

But anyone who’s been to San Francisco recently can confirm that the summer of love definitely ended 50 years ago. No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “. So there’s probably some of that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. Niamh O’Connor: Yeah, definitely. I definitely want to do this, and I’m really passionate about it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. “If you’re not leveraging automation, typically, companies spend hundreds of hours a year on compliance” Adam: Yeah, definitely. If you don’t have a SOC 2 Report, it is definitely time to get started. Definitely leverage automation.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. So even if you can’t guide your people regarding how to do things, you can definitely guide them regarding what they should be working on. As their manager, by definition, you have a broader perspective than they do.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Unsurprisingly, there is no standard definition across industries or companies for the career growth of Product Managers. Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO). In some companies, product management roles up to the CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops. Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. ” In short, product ops serves to support the product team and help build better products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

What I did need to do was to find out what their product development definition was and launch a new product. I was placed into an office that I shared with the company’s CTO and their head engineer. It turns out that the CTO, sitting on the other side of the room, was watching me. No big deal – or so I thought.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

We spend a ton of time on problem definition. There is definitely an innovation in that space. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. The better you understand the problem, the better thing you’ll design. Des Traynor: It’s that line – “a problem well stated is a problem half solved.”.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. Mike also refers to his First Round Review article in the interview, which we definitely recommend reading: Why This Engineering Leader Thinks You Shouldn’t Aim for Zero Regrettable Attrition.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering. of respondents said they’d identified opportunities in their last interview because I find most teams aren’t clear on the definition of “opportunity.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Along similar lines, domain expertise is also a crucial piece of successful strategy definition and execution. Well, programs are much larger in scope and are actually composed of several related or interconnected projects.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Where to find Christian Idiodi: • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] • Website: [link] Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: [link] • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Christian’s background ( 03:56 ) The negative perception of product managers ( 07:58 ) How to become a PM people want (..)

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This definition resonated deeply with me a few weeks ago while connecting with several designers on their latest works. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Those who are studying or working on a design system can readily recognize the significance of the title.

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Roy Madden

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Chris and Adam send articles to analysts, CTO teams, or even the CEO. Adam adds, “We know that once we put parameters into Feedly, it’s definitely doing its job and is capturing everything we need it to. We know that once we put parameters into Feedly, it’s definitely doing its job and is capturing everything we need it to.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Variety is the Spice of Life and the Bane of Product Management Careers.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Drift’s co-founder and CTO Elias Torres stated in our e-book How To Turn Customer Feedback Into Product Value : “Only our users are able to come up with improvements that can truly get their jobs done.” . It’s not complicated: your developer would definitely know what this means. The features customers need are constantly changing.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

They can be the head of sales, chief analyst, CTO, or anything else. He explains that technology companies have historically based their empathetic metrics on dictionaries that contained definitions of feelings and emotions. The objective is to deeply understand what we can learn from these activities in the process.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team. As a CTO or equivalent, you can be engaged in most of the activities related to product development, from choosing the development methodology to setting up the processes.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 By definition, the standard product isn’t sufficient, or the customer would already be in production – so implementation usually includes custom integrations, clever configurations, and creative twists on what features were designed to do.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Alice de Courcy : “ I definitely had to change the way I behave and operate in order to be respected at times. As a young woman in tech it can be easy to judge so I definitely felt I needed to work harder to prove myself, and I definitely needed to develop a much tougher skin.” Laura : “Definitely. Laura : “I haven’t.

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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. Firefly fans: definitely a reaver ship, right?) With words! Could an art model produce an acceptably good logo?

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“It became clear to us from the beginning that we had to find ways to give each team a space to organize their flags and prevent teams from stepping on each other’s toes when it comes to managing feature flags. ” – Patricio Echague , Co-founder & CTO, Split Software. DON’T: Treat all flags the same.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

While you might want to take a deeper dive into the platform details with the CTO or the new messaging opportunities with the head of marketing, this isn’t the forum for those interactions. Product managers aren’t psychics, so every roadmap item sits somewhere on the spectrum between “definitely going to happen” and “definitely a possibility.”

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Product Managers (PM) are responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line. Head of Product or Product Director. Product Manager.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Gainsight PX CTO Mickey Alon discussed with Carlos Gonzales Villaumbrosia, Founder & CEO of Product School and author of The Product Book , the solution isn’t complicated—it’s product-led growth. Sprites were difficult to see. Bosses were merciless, and it led to a lot of thrown controllers and frozen friendships.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

However, when comparing all potential destinations, one country consistently emerges as the definitive leader: India. As John Reynolds, CTO of a San Francisco-based fintech startup, noted: “ Arkenea’s team in India is more responsive and communicative than some local vendors we’ve worked with.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2023

they’re definitely behind the curve,” says Mehta. This new approach lets Product take over the heavy lifting of driving customers to realize initial value from using your product,” says Mickey Alon, founder and CTO of Gainsight PX. “It You can dive in wherever you are and evolve your system as your business expands or shifts.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s a 3-5 year lag, but it definitely happens. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Want to know what B2B communication/collaboration will look like in 5 years? TikTok is a great example that’s mid-phase. The ATG / Otto folks are making moves as well.

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