People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. Product Strategy emerges from experimentation towards a goal.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

But MVP is a key concept in product management. 15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. This concept split the team. Most were crashing failures.

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . However, it isn’t fun to redo a product every three years. Unfortunately, technical debt can do that to your team. How to Manage Technical Debt?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Managers, on the other hand, are responsible for many others. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. What does your team and company need?

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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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. In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager.

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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. And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scalable sales team from the ground up. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He has global responsibility for developing cutting edge technology and competitive advantage for Ford by developing relationships and collaborative projects involving universities and partner companies. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:26] The bulk of the work is with universities.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

I had to say goodbye to my product manager job because I got fired Image Credit: Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. Exactly How Does A Product Manager Get Fired? What this meant for the company is that they now had a product and, hat’s off to them, they realized that they needed a product manager.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. 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. Short on time?

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2020

Why Do Dancers Make Great Product Managers Image from Pexels For as long as I can remember, I’ve been passionate about dancing and product management. I did it for almost 15 years now and during this time my passion kept growing both for dancing and for product management. The same goes for PMs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Laura: Exactly. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  Almost every (non-engineer) CEO I talk with tells me that their development team needs to be much more productive – or is lazy – and their product managers are unresponsive or don’t understand the business.  I

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. This approach works well for operational data, but it’s a bad approach for emotional data.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Since 2013, UX studio has been on a mission to help businesses create impactful product design. Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

I wrote this page for the team saying you know the fact that it’s too much around me it’s a limiting factor in the pursuit of our company’s mission. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams. And I told the team keep calm and carry on and you know we can do it.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied to it. Products operations is to product management as marketing operations is to marketing. Product ops are better suited to handle those issues and give time back to product managers.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

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 means having gender- and cultural-equitable teams, where a multitude of voices and perspectives collaborate to further our innovative work.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So before we get into product, and I think there are two or three things that keep coming up in in questions. One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. But again, you forget that the real work comes from maintaining products.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. So cameras off.

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