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. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. I won’t ruin the movie for you. The time and commitment is comparable.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | HelpBar by Chameleon —the free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos.

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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 Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Your product should be designed to meet the specific needs of individuals within an organization with the goal of making them quantifiably better at their job (user persona). If your product requires integration on any level, your customer’s software engineers will be responsible for installing and deploying the product for the end user.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

But a product team’s success can only happen with all hands on deck, meaning teamwork from the PM to the engineers to the marketers and so on. Since the company was still growing, most of the product decisions were handled by the company’s CTO and co-founder. Things that the product leadership believes in.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. Even though Amplitude is growing, their onboarding is still done by the leadership team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix. If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. 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.

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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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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. Make sense of your data.

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Bain Public

MARCH 6, 2023

What a lot of people may not know is that in the lead-up to the launch, NASA engineers, including primary engineer Roger Boisjoly, warned NASA officials of how the cold weather that day could cause significant issues with the launch. Unfortunately, the engineers were right.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Depending on your organization, you may have more than 100 times as many engineers as designers. early-stage planning meetings to prioritize and allocate funding.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Daily standups — the daily meetings product team members are either excited about or quietly dread. Did you identify bugs and coordinate with engineering, etc? Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? Here’s what they said. Are you about to run out of work?

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the first things I did was organize a strategy offsite for several cross-functional leads on my broader team, which included members from customer success, design, engineering, and marketing. A customer success lead looked into the PM persona, a PM looked into a data engineer persona, and so forth.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

PMs typically work alongside many different roles and departments, especially engineering, design, sales, and marketing. They will represent the PMs working under them in high-level meetings. A director-level role in product management is primarily a big-picture strategy and leadership role.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. Meet other heads of product teams Any head of a product team had one day to build their team and they have a lot to teach. It helped me structure the product team and how our team interacted with the engineering team.

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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. . Sound Byte.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. A great CEO has the confidence and humility to ask for help, to rely on outside experts and to surround herself or himself with people that excel in other fields, such as product leadership. Are you a product manager?

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. But what does a CEO need?

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Hint: this is how engineers would approach prioritization and roadmapping in an unemotional world of perfect information and fully aligned organizational goals. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap. DEVELOPMENT.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. They completely had to change their strategy to meet the demands of the pandemic. They need to change.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. So we know that the CEO is time-slicing to cover investor pitches and office space and recruiting and benefits and legal and setting product direction and stocking the kitchen with snacks.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The one cost that product managers and engineers don’t understand. I don’t take meetings in the morning (unless I absolutely have to) and I workout from 3:30 to 5 PM, so that I can reflect on what to achieve post-sweat session. Spotify engineering culture (part 1). How to work with engineers. Author: First Round Review.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Meet the mentors…. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

They also need to understand what goes into product engineering to better know what changes or improvements will be possible in the future and which ones won’t. A CPO must coordinate employees from various functional areas, including software engineers, product managers, UX/UI designers, analysts, and marketers. Leadership.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

If you’re focusing on MVPs (Minimum Viable Products), there’s a better way to meet or exceed your customers’ expectations. 12 Six Steps to Superior Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer. When Caitlin Kalinowski became head of product design engineering at Oculus , she and her team faced a stiff challenge.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We discussed how Ellen first learned about continuous discovery and the steps she took to roll it out, specifically with the engineers at Orion Labs. Teresa: We are here today to discuss how Ellen introduced her engineers to discovery and how she got them involved in a more continuous cadence to their discovery work.

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