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ONE THING on Purpose

Product Culture

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Finance is worried about margins. Your sales team has an ambitious quota to meet. And HR is telling you morale is low. Every exec has a goal and every goal has an exec.

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ONE THING on Discipline

Product Culture

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Finance is worried about margins. Your sales team has an ambitious quota to meet. And HR is telling you morale is low. Every exec has a goal and every goal has an exec.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

What’s In a Name? I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. Let’s unpack. So our first struggle is what to call this role. Sound Byte.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Clutch has named them one of the top app development agencies in 2018. for four consecutive years.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. 11:22 Mark: And were you considering equity finance at the same time? 19:57 Mark: And what can you say about that, in terms of kind of finances of the business when you were raising? And you can do it at a much better interest rate.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.