Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

The solution? The Indisputable Case: Why India is the Premier Destination for Software Development Outsourcing The global outsourcing landscape offers numerous options for businesses seeking to optimize their software development. In 2025, US businesses face unprecedented challenges finding affordable, quality tech talent.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. 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.

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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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

New tools for product management teams appear frequently, each promising to improve the process in some way. ” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops. One easy way to understand the role of product ops is to break it down into three main categories: tools, data and experimentation.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. I know that was one of the hardest things for me when I first reported directly to the CEO, who couldn’t (and wouldn’t) give me any guidance.

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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. They would then formulate a program charged with the software delivery, of which a TPM would manage. Today’s organizations are heavily dependent on modern technologies. But why do companies need TPMs anyway?

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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. The product was a very sophisticated collection of 5 pieces of hardware and 15 pieces of off-the-shelf software that all had to be custom configured in order to create a super secure system. Time moves on.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals. One software product manager at a small company placed the blame on management. It’s relatively new to have easy access to reams of real-time data and the tools to crunch it quickly.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You play in a sandpit with technology and other talented professionals. The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO. It is all of the above plus more. Product Manager career options.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. A 2018 report by CBInsights zeroed in on the top 20 reasons for startup failure­. No market need for the product or service. There also has to be a definitive target market and need for the solution. This means that only 300 of those companies are probably still operating today.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap report – women represent just 36.9% 78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. Melissa Kwan : “I quit my job in SAP and wanted to start a company that uses technology.

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UX Studio

APRIL 29, 2019

This case study reports on how we helped optimise their search engine. We worked closely with the CTO, the Head of Product, and an in-house designer. Even though the client knew their research goals, they let us use our preferred tools. Usually, this included an international network and a secure insurance system.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

How the work of the future will come from new tools, new media formats, and new monetization formats — and how the Passion Economy is different than the Gig Economy. Really interesting report if you’re interested in podcasting/audio and the emerging industry around it. Complementary, but different. It’s super fun.

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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. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. With words! Could an art model produce an acceptably good logo?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

One example: the script currently runs in CLI mode with arguments, but it’s not implemented in the latest-best-Python way, and I’d definitely want to correct that. Typer from Tiangolo looks like a promising solution, by the way). platform, on the other hand, sits solidly in the center of mainstream, modern web / mobile.

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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. Many other PMs either look up to them or directly report to product leaders in their day-to-day responsibilities. However, at larger companies, there could be several Directors reporting to a Vice-President.

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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. And those people who do sign up, how do we get them to be successful to set up their first accounts or service on Mixpanel?

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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. And those people who do sign up, how do we get them to be successful to set up their first accounts or service on Mixpanel?

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

To be clear, scope as used in Shape Up means “integrated slice” — and definitely does not mean “estimate” or “level of effort.” We never did figure out a good system for managing uncertainty. ” No status reports. But the Basecamp guys did. No daily standups. Solve in the right sequence.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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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. I asked members of StubHub’s Product & Technology team to get their honest thoughts, experiences and predictions on this important topic. This comes from a 2017 McKinsey Report. It has many. They did not disappoint.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

How the work of the future will come from new tools, new media formats, and new monetization formats — and how the Passion Economy is different than the Gig Economy. Really interesting report if you’re interested in podcasting/audio and the emerging industry around it. Complementary, but different. It’s super fun.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

First, let’s define AI … The AI label is getting slapped on a lot of things these days, and I’m actually ok with that – it’s a short, handy, evocative term, useful as long as we get its definition straight. My personal experience mirrors these reports. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I went from solo recruiter to manager of 23 direct reports. But I was very fortunate that I found a leader over in the UK who I trusted to manage the London team, and at one point I actually told my manager, “I don’t need her to report to me. She can report to the GM in Europe.” This is super important. It’s already here.

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