Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

DevOps is a software development methodology that can help legacy businesses streamline their digital transformation efforts. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. What is DevOps and how can it benefit legacy businesses?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. These are classic inflection points for a development team. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. These tools mostly show initiatives.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. TikTok wins global markets by hiring locally and refining algorithms to fit regional and local cultures. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. This is just the start, we will be building out new products here and in all of our offices. Ann joined us this past May. Interested?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

Kieran’s focus at Thread is to drive the growth of the business and keep developing – not maintaining – the company culture. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. million customers before being acquired in 2012. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? Keren: Well, at Darrow we develop what is regarded as a go-to platform for plaintiff lawyers that want to expand their practice. With the platform we harness AI technology to discover meritorious cases. Keren: Begin with the market voices.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Differentiating your product – Lenny shares 7 ways companies can differentiate their products, including focusing on affordability, product quality, niche markets , and more. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Cross-functional leadership. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. Video & slides below.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And InVision’s The New Design Frontier report on design maturity found that organizations with high-performing, mature design teams “are more likely to see cost savings, revenue gains, productivity gains, speed to market, and brand and market position improvements through their design efforts.” Embrace Iteration.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. When developing an AI strategy, it’s crucial to document the outcomes and benefits for employees.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you’re deep in product development, it can be surprisingly easy to overlook who you’re making your product for. You may understand the technical nuances of the problems you’re solving or the general trends in your market, but if you can’t truly empathize with the people experiencing those problems, you’ll build a sub-optimal product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle. Excel at Change – Can we keep the cost of change low?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

It was developed by Simon Wardley. Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. Leadership. You need to be able to explain why you go in one direction and not another, you need to consider how you want to act in the market (context specific) as well as the more universal doctrines. A Wardley map is… a map.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

PMs often own the communication process around a product life cycle and need to make sure to have all relevant people in the loop of their communications especially in the product development process which requires approvals from the respective stakeholders. Identifying stakeholders – the process to identify your true stakeholders.

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2020

Attendees engaged in over an hour of conversation on successful approaches for building high-performing teams in the DC market. Antonio Piraino, CTO at Sciencelogic. Bobby Tahir, CTO at Hobsons. Team development is hard. The role of leadership in teams was also discussed.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Rahul Vohra, SuperHuman: The product market fit engine How to drive product strategy and growth by understanding who your most profitable customers are and what they value.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

Joining the mailing list is super easy; just fill out the form below: Our first Deep Dive for 2021 was Jobs-To-Be-Done – a topic we have seen develop and grow and even had a couple of Masterclasses on the process too! Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

They are tasked with handling smaller or more focused aspects of product development. Using this data, APMs can help influence the product development roadmap, if need be. PMs typically work alongside many different roles and departments, especially engineering, design, sales, and marketing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Developing the product has a significant impact on the company’s strategy, and founders must live the market and their customer’s needs in order to define the company’s strategy.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories. A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. . // 3 min read The End of Indie.vc Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. ”) They look at roadmaps from an account-level point of view more than a market-wide perspective. More here.)

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

From Marketing to Sales to Services, and even a CRM, the platform connects companies with tools they need to scale effectively. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

April Dunford sat in the back of a marketing class at Northwestern University in Chicago, where her professor gave an example of a product positioning statement. She realized that the strategy for marketing the product changed, as did their field of competition. . It isn’t your viewpoint on the market. .

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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