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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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Changes to the tech team: You need to make changes to your tech team to meet your business goals. Findings Sessions : A review meeting to decode findings, gauge their business implications, and chalk out a roadmap for the future. By a factor of 100?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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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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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). Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). From the Bottom Up. Examples of B2B Buyer Personas.

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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. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Ilan will join members of our product leadership, including Gainsight’s CTO Mickey Alon and our Group VP for Platform and PX, Denise Stokowski , live on stage to break down which highway will take you from product-market-fit to growth for the Enterprise. Register today for Pulse for Product here.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Dharmesh Shah, the co-founder/CTO of Hubspot shared on Lenny’s podcast , company culture is a product. Share People-First Product Leadership Discover the methods for turning awkwardness into opportunities and transform your career All of us are faced with difficult situations. Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership!

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

Since the company was still growing, most of the product decisions were handled by the company’s CTO and co-founder. This worked for some time, but as the company grew bigger, the CTO got busier and waiting on him to review every product decision was slowing them down. Things that the product leadership believes in.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Real product managers are creators and are responsible for both value (ensuring the product meets customers’ needs) and viability (ensuring the product aligns with the business objectives).

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

New technologies such as electronic health records, telemedicine, and wearable devices offer significant benefits but also introduce complex compliance requirements. Data Security and Privacy Healthcare organizations handle vast amounts of sensitive patient data, making data security and privacy a top priority.

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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. Work with your design leadership to ask what steps it would take to right-size the design team’s staffing to meet your goals. Embrace Iteration.

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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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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. Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? We asked product leaders how they lead daily standup activities. Here’s what they said. How do product managers lead standups?

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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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Bain Public

MARCH 6, 2023

Paul then jumped in with his own similar experience with a CTO where he was disregarded and sent down rabbit holes chasing more data and more interviews with customers, when all the CTO was really doing was trying to buy time, which burned the bridge of trust. You end up second guessing whether you know the roles and responsibilities."

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Looking at a start-up company maybe there is no need to do a detailed stakeholder map as the product manager usually is well connected and already has update meetings on a regular basis with all relevant stakeholders like the CEO or VP of commercial operations. Secondly, when should you spend time to identify stakeholders ?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

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. For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. The purpose you exist is to meet that need. Leadership. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Wardley maps map onto the same cycle. The Wardley map. Wardley maps consists of five core elements.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

It is easier to meet and talk to people without the fear of having to ‘join a conversation’ in the line for coffee. You still get amazing talks from the world’s leading entrepreneurs and thinkers, but from the comfort of your own home or office with huge time and financial savings.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When everyone on the team shares this foundational understanding of our personas, everyone can feel empowered to make decisions without explicit sign-off from myself or leadership, which allows us to move faster. This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

In just 30min Bruce helped us make the optimal choice that had kept us in meetings and agony for 3 weeks. Otherwise you can speak up at the hangout – which we run as a Zoom meeting and not a webinar to easily invite you to speak – and voice your question in person. Find out more and register for FREE.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

Four causes and fixes for Zoom Fatigue Sound advice, for regular meetings or online conferences. // 3 min read The End of Indie.vc Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Image Credit: Transistor by Alexandra Manokhina Job Responsibilities and Duties Not every company with product management teams will have a Chief Product Officer.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve run my last BoS event, signed off on my last newsletter, and deleted myself from the ‘Meet the Team’ page. It’s strange to think that in a few short hours I’ll press ‘End Meeting For All’ for the final time, and that’ll be it. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

{img:left} Eric Wang {/img}When you start a new job, the first week or so usually involves meetings with HR, your direct managers, or coworkers in roles similar to yours. Even though Amplitude is growing, their onboarding is still done by the leadership team. Sitting down with the leadership team made me feel valued from day one.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. Before meeting a client CEO. I can even look to see how a CEO of one of our clients is using Gainsight before meeting them. But what does a CEO need? In reviewing a feature.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

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. At Bain Public, we can help fast-track the development of your product management and leadership. Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

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. You can also show that you’re listening to your teams in a more inter-personal way in your one-to-one meetings. Active listening can mean asking questions, following up on points, or even taking notes.

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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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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Meet the mentors…. 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. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Meet the mentors…. 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. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

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. At the beginning, we (the management team) were meeting every week where we made important decisions, from hiring to firing to changing tools and processes.

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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2018

Sailesh Panchal, CTO at digital payments firm Orwell Group, is an unusual soul. He’s earned the gravitas he emanates from decades in software architecture and technology leadership. This seemingly contradictory background in acting has, he tells me, helped his business leadership in many ways. And I can see how.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. My biggest advice when using a tool like this, is to remember that you are not incrementally carving away capacity to meet demand. They completely had to change their strategy to meet the demands of the pandemic.

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