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

Lenny Rachitsky

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. This framework is correlated with higher productivity but is somewhat disconnected from definitions of productivity used in other parts of the business.

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10 Successful Founders On Outsourcing Product Development

Arkenea

When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product.

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Best Countries To Outsource Software Development: Why India Reigns

Arkenea

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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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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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Identifying Stakeholders for Product Success

The Product Guy

For example in the early phases of development the CTO will more likely have the role of a key stakeholder, in the phase of commercialisation eventually the Commercial leadership team will require significantly more regular check-ins and support from the PM to adjust the tasks around the product effectively.

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The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway)

Lenny Rachitsky

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time.

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role? But what is product definition exactly? That is part of the definition, no doubt, but it’s the tactical part of it. It makes perfect sense.