Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! A number of our customers love this feature and have had great success with it so far: “Intercom’s new Expand feature is a game changer for me and my team at Kala Burdo Consulting. Great stuff!”

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

You need a team who’s well-versed in technology and capable of translating that know-how into pragmatic options. If you bring in a consultant who spends all their time doing technical reviews and hasn’t built a system since the dot-com boom, you’re probably wasting your time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Additionally, there were several consulting and agency teams supporting all sorts of applications and building proof-of-concepts. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Some were even using InDesign for wireframing, while others handed off their designs in PDF files for stakeholder sign-off. “In

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, new product and market growth consultant Laura Scanga shares some thoughts on how best to do this and which tools and exercises can be useful. A/B test, test landing pages and pricing, conduct interviews. Start With a Customer-first Approach. Get customer validation with a variety of tools.

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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. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. If you’re using the flag to run an A/B test, your product manager should manage it. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

  Engineering-grade testing and code re-use are often discussed but almost never put in place.  And  And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.  Then, as quickly as possible, the team shifts to the next post-sale implementation.  

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eG Innovations

APRIL 22, 2021

I’d like to keep updating this list as new instances become available – so if you spot or generate any data-testing specific instances that might guide choice, do comment on this blog or let me know so that I can add it! Citrix Consulting themselves state: “Most Citrix deployments use the D-Series and F-Series instance types.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. During the initial ideation of the startup life cycle, it is imperative to spend whatever little funding you have to validate your idea and test the market to see if customers will actually pay for your product (and how much!). There also has to be a definitive target market and need for the solution.

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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.” They tend to interview more and run more assumption tests. Both are true. said in the past week. .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.)

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

I had worked in Linux operations and done design contract work on the side. I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. We’re now doing test-driven development and more traditional product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 5) A/B test product features. (6) A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. So what are your next steps?

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2020

The last thing we wanted was for patients to go to an urgent care facility, where they might contract COVID-19, only because they couldn’t reach their primary care physician virtually,” said Sherry Slick, CTO and COO of OurHealth. They had to juggle going as fast as possible while also providing a solution that was right for them.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. This idea of continuous research, for example – we’re just now getting comfortable with being able to readily do customer interviews or usability testing or whatever that might be.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 2, 2019

Customers want guarantees regarding the quality, scope, schedule, and contract. Among those can be tools for unit tests, continuous integration, and regression automation, static code analysis, product metrics in mobile for released projects, crashlytics and firebase, amongst others. The tools help the product from the inside.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge. Head of Product or Product Director. Certifications.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Who was deciding on that output?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As an expert design agency, we offer digital product design, user experience research, UX consulting and training, customized solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. If you are looking for a web design company in Sacramento, contact us to book a free consultation. Is there anything we can do for you? Capitol Tech Solutions.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

My goal has always been to positively impact the lives of people going through life-changing diseases whilst also forging the way for other female leaders in the technology industry.” ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. ” Sabah Zdanowska founder, ventures consulting. Moeller – Maersk.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of trying to show its quality and introduce itself to health-conscious ramen lovers, the collaboration served as a test in the new market. testing its product at different restaurants with different customers was important as Michael stated, “We want to illustrate the versatility of our noodles.”. View this post on Instagram.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

In this talk, Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your decisions. Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. . I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

I was initially brought in as a freelance consultant by Simon Nelson, who had been recently appointed by the OU as CEO of its new venture. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. To lay the technology foundation that allows the product to be iterated rapidly. Singer/Songwriter.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. And the response was overwhelming.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. Take test management, for example. Atlassian partnered with companies like Xray, SmartBear, and Mabl so teams can manage their automated tests without leaving Jira. A fond farewell.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

At Atomic, we do this by: Data-gathering with your team and interviewing future software users Making and testing several levels of prototypes. To clean up the dataset, I removed design-only engagements, maintenance work, and projects that were strictly consulting. After filtering, 93 software products remained.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

But as a software consultant, I need to be flexible, and I’ve done my fair share of Android development as well. The ViewModel doesn’t contain any UI framework classes, which makes it easy to instantiate it in tests. Over the past six years, I’ve done a lot of iOS development (and written a lot about iOS ).

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. So this is why I love personality tests. I’m counting on you OK.

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Userzoom

MAY 10, 2017

This includes technology and operations executives at our clients who purchase UX consulting services, but also people like the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer at ZS. Fixing the appearance of a solution doesn’t do that! Only then can we truly deliver on the value of UX.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

All of a sudden, I don’t you know, I saw a guy yesterday was like, I only had a fever for three hours, this fever testing isn’t valuable. Would you recommend that over and above the contract habits?” And I was like, okay, we’re done here. ” So what are the what are the benefits of not being synced up?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And that did me a great favor, that gave me like a great kickstart into this career.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

A six-step survey journey over a two to four-week period that includes platform setup, data prep, survey strategy, setup, test and launch, and results roll out. Wow Moments that Matter: Onboarding and implementation with a focus on “nudging” communication. Then, success plans with clearly defined objectives and tasks in Gainsight.

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