The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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.

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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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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

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 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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Either way, product leaders are the definitive owners of their particular products. A director-level role in product management is primarily a big-picture strategy and leadership role. Chief Product Officers are to Product what Chief Technology Officers are to technology in their organizations.

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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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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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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Else : “Yeah absolutely.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. We’ve stressed before how writing is a vital (and underrated) skill for PMs , so I definitely had to include this post about the superiority of written communication over verbal communication from Walter Chen, Founder and CEO of Animalz. Bad managers talk, good managers write.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. That’s going to give me a really tight definition on who exactly are my best people to sell to? Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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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. Leadership And last, but certainly not least, TPMs must have strong leadership.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s a curated collection of thought leadership, real-world case studies, and best practices from SaaS execs who’ve been where you are and gone on to create massively successful CS organizations. . they’re definitely behind the curve,” says Mehta. The point is to start. Because if you don’t, you’ll be left behind. “If

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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. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. The predictability of the leadership team, of you, of me. Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. Paul Adams: Exactly.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. of respondents said that their Head of Product (e.g. said their team was involved.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

When seen through the prisms of business, gender and cultural politics, “balance” doesn’t have one definition. In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It has many. to list a few.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We weren’t bootstrapped, that’s a very clear definition of what bootstrapped is. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. SEEDSTRAPPED. 17:26 James Avery, Kevel: We were, I like to call it, ‘Seedstrapped’ It is a term I’m trying to get out there.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Teresa: Definitely. Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Teresa: In the earlier days, your leadership team was saying, “This is the feature we need for this customer.”

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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. This post comes out of a March talk at the Business of Software conference.  My

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. Not all agile is bad agile. I wonder, though, whether agile’s accumulated bloat and baggage is forcing these good folks to swim upstream.

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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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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So these are the things I definitely learned – it was like how to be successful required these two things and you had to be going off real consumer challenge. It took a year to find something that I would go after and I think so key thought process around that was like it couldn’t be something which is about reinventing the wheel.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! definitely. So definitely give it make sure that everybody knows that it’s a phase.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And yeah, you know, those are definitely memorable. Definitely, one of the things has been covered a couple of times that BoS is imposter syndrome, and we touched on it earlier as well. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And actually, we get asked that a lot.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. If you’d been the hard-nosed micromanagement CEO, everyone would have left because you needed to create a combined spirit that we can dig our way out of this drama, like to build kind of the technology in the business around that. But maybe they were volunteers.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And so I’ve been kind of like learning kind of these step functions along the way of like different scale and operating in different scale and so I definitely would never have thought about it before Hubspot and also beyond HubSpot I thought hey this is my I started four companies already like why am I going to get up? Definitely.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Because what we don’t want to do is be in this eternal, like second guessing mode, where there isn’t a definitive direction or decision. There are a lot of options today, it is definitely harder. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. What’s one piece of advice you would give to somebody at each stage of their career: beginner, mid-career, and senior leadership?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. What’s one piece of advice you would give to somebody at each stage of their career: beginner, mid-career, and senior leadership?

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