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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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”. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Fractional CTO services can be a valuable asset for businesses that want to take advantage of technology to grow and improve their operations, but don’t have the resources or expertise to do so in-house.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 29, 2022

Beyond telehealth visits, 2022 will see increased adoption of hospital-at-home and remote patient management.” – Milan Shah, CTO, Biofourmis. Best Practices for Healthcare App Development and Telemedicine Apps. Additional reading and resources. 6 Ways Healthcare Apps Have Changed the Medical Industry.

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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. Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.”

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. I understand how much thought (and possibly anxiety) goes into these roadmap presentations. Mistakes I’ve Seen When Presenting Executive Roadmaps.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

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. “What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” He was on edge. BUT we still had to test our ideas.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Brought to you by Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Teal —Your personal career growth platform — Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. The CIO or CTO may not be the budget holder, but they may control the purchasing decision. The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? Because I knew that the company would deliver better outcomes if a cross-functional team of designers, developers, and customers started together instead of me taking a stab at it alone. I resisted.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. Communicating the impact of technical debt in business terms makes it visible, which helps stakeholders prioritize issues on the product roadmap. . Align Technology & Product Roadmaps. They gain a better understanding of dependencies in feature development. Our partner Aha!

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 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  At the end of the quarter, we wonder why so few planned roadmap items were shipped.  Where

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a smart Mobility start-up, they developed solutions to optimise and revolutionize public transport systems and services. Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

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. Make sure “non-developer” roles also share their part. Keren: Begin with the market voices.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is where products are born, where they develop, and where they modify the company’s exposure to the internet and to web security threats in particular. . The tech industry is constantly searching for its unicorn senior 10x developer and InfoSec is no different. “To Intercom is no exception.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

With this approach, the roadmap is not dictated from a central authority. The takeaway Keeping the rest of the organization abreast of these evolutionary changes in the roadmap is no trivial task. The takeaway Keeping the rest of the organization abreast of these evolutionary changes in the roadmap is no trivial task.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Coaching designers: Through our service design, we offered a series of roadshows, training sessions, and regular office hours to educate and coach the design and development community. I’d consider the below as the prerequisite to the success recipe.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But as an executive leader in your organization, whether you’re a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or the primary sponsor of a product development team, there are several things you can–no, should –do to greatly increase the chances that design can make a difference to your organization’s bottom line.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

So Sam wrote an open letter to our Research & Development department at Intercom, stating what the problem was with these terms and that we needed to address them immediately. The letter got resounding support, including a rousing endorsement from our co-founder and CTO, Ciaran Lee. And the response was overwhelming.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

P - Program: The position is centered on developing and executing technical business programs. For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Today’s organizations are heavily dependent on modern technologies. TPMs must be capable of making strategic technical decisions.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

The Basecamp team does a fantastic job of thinking from first principles, questioning the status quo, and coming up with novel practices that they've carefully battle-tested on their own team over the last 15 years of developing Basecamp. For two, we don’t line walls with Post-it notes. We have an entirely different approach. Shape the work.

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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.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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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.

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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. From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. Inis is a biologist by education who transferred from science to sales over market development into a product manager role 3 years ago.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2022

Investigate support and development efforts on the existing platform. Development. And speaking of issues, your development team will be able to give you a deeper understanding of those being raised. This is where you work with your CTO and development team to understand the risks and advantages of making such a move.

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

This model uses the product as the primary vehicle to drive end-to-end value realization, build consumption-based pricing, prioritize the product roadmap to optimize customer outcomes, and unlock organic expansion using self-serve provisioning. . Of companies that use product experience data, 57% use it to develop product roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

Having product vision paired with development expertise is a rare combo, and product managers should make it their job to work as closely as possible with these individuals. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. It’ll be good for your team, as well as your own personal career development.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. This article provides advice for product managers on how to overcome this tension with the PLT and how to improve that relationship for the greater good of the product roadmap and its success. Who are part of the Product Leadership Team (PLT) and what is expected from them?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He writes, he tweets, he regularly speaks at conferences, and with 31,000 Twitter followers (not to mention 26,000 followers to his Medium blog ), he’s a prolific and consistent voice in the study and development of the product management craft. Ironically, John isn’t part of the teams that develop Amplitude’s products.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

Tear up the roadmap & OKRs. its a lighter, rapid development that’s needed. Myself and our CTO have been side-by-side in leading and working with our small caretaker team. Once the instruments to drive direction & focus, now feel obsolete. They are not required in this environment?—?its Have a co-captain.

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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.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. What helped you develop your product management career given that you weren’t in a formal PM role? Honestly, it was that book that really helped me develop a lot of my thinking around it. Tell us about how you broke into product management. The devil's in the details.

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