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Road to Product Consensus

The Product Guy

That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then convey them to the CTO and discuss the proposal with him further, noting this was done in collaboration with the team to add more weight. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

Product Talk

Many said it is an iterative process that requires a lot of repetition and use internal trio models or even decide that the first trio must exist at the management level (CPO/CTO/ Head of Design) before it can be implemented in teams. Today, they regularly remind themselves of the right KPIs with standardized definitions and frameworks.

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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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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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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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How do we feel about being called ‘women in tech’?

Intercom, Inc.

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: You mentioned the positives that can come from it. Niamh O’Connor: Yeah, definitely.

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Product in Practice: Why Ramsey Solutions Rotates Engineers in Their Product Trios

Product Talk

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. Josh as an engineer was uniquely positioned to help us close those gaps of data and integrations. Here’s how he characterizes Josh’s time as tech lead: “I think of it as two chapters.