Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. What happens when company leadership fails to provide actionable high-level goals? CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. Teams, you’re empowered!”

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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. user group events.

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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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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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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Whether live on stage or presenting remotely, our speakers will bring the energy to keep your road trip stoked and exciting across two days. . Ken Rudin, SVP at ThoughtSpot , will be joining us during a keynote presentation, sharing his insights about product-led product evolution and innovative analytics. Product Leading Speakers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

There are fewer speakers and more points to interact as we hone down the list of amazing applications to present the best of the best (which is so hard to do with so many great speakers applying). Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

“We like to think that, here in the present day, with almost nine hundred years of technological progress from the time the Notre-Dame cathedral was designed, failures like this would be impossible. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. 30 minutes!

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. So first the question many salespeople are thinking while we present our next-quarter roadmap is….

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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. Influence is built up by a mixture of how you behave with your teammates, your track record of success, and how you present your decisions. The best influence comes from a place of earned respect.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. Even when I was presented data, I was always given the caveat that, “We’re not sure this is right.” ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. ” The opportunity presented to Chris was one he refused to waste. .

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. But usage data is just one factor for decision making, and because in PM meetings it’s something you can point to as evidence to support an argument, it’s often overweight (particularly when the presenter has good persuasion skills). But there is too much distance, data, organizational complexity.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Especially in a bigger company, it usually takes a while before you really get to know people, especially people in leadership roles who are busier and might not have time to meet you during your onboarding. Even though Amplitude is growing, their onboarding is still done by the leadership team.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

4) Present your solution, and ask more questions. (5) A history of innovation from 1870 to the present. create a path to executive leadership. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) 2) Conduct one-on-one interviews. (3)

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. The diversity presents challenges when attempting to: Identify growth opportunities and spot which areas you must improve upon.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. I would ultimately forge a hugely productive working relationship with them as a product leadership trio. Soon, every team in the company got up and presented progress from the last two weeks. And that host is no longer me.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You create meaning out of chaos and present information in a consumable, engaging way to a broad audience. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. You occupy two worlds. You are a storyteller. It is all of the above plus more.

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Product Manager in Heels

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For the organization: improved communication, more open culture, improved team working and mutual understanding, and improved leadership skills / capabilities. For example, I work under the technology department and asked my boss, and the CTO to fill it out, as well as the other PM and the Director of Development.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

At every Business of Software Conference we record all the speakers’ presentations so that you can learn from the array of talks on offer to our attendees. Leadership. 3 // Leadership. I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. 15 Talks / 5 FAQs / The BoS Podcast. Culture & Teams.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He lays out his advice from years of presenting amazing experiences that keep users coming back. #14 You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. Jon Lax presented at a Design & Content Conference in Vancouver, B.C., Author: Chris Butler. Author: Jon Lax.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

This does not imply, however, that only the leadership team determines this strategy. The technology strategy and roadmap, finally, are owned by the CTO together with senior architects. If you work for a startup, for example, and you currently offer a single product, then you won’t need a product portfolio strategy at present.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” 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.”

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

And they’re now learning how to work together in this remote environment where, you know, your manager doesn’t know how to evaluate you, in most cases, because they’ve only been evaluating you based on whether you showed up to the office at 911 at five. And that’s the only standing meetings that we should all have.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Another problem is you’re hiring for a design leadership position and you expect the person to design leadership to be hands on too. This shows to me that you don’t really understand design leadership and you’re not ready for it. Are you really invested in getting value from design is what I’m asking you.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. This will see him transition CTO responsibilities to a to-be-determined successor at the end of FY22. Sri joined as Atlassian’s first CTO in January 2016, shortly after our initial public offering. A fond farewell.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. A betting table, held during the cool-down period between six-week cycles, where a small list of the pitches we just described are presented as possible bets for the upcoming cycle.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

It’s much easier for people to kind of engage with, because even the introvertish people, if they really, you know, if they are feeling a bit extra shy or whatever, they can turn off their camera, but still be part of the class and still be there and be present without having to be on show.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past few years, we’ve started to see thought leadership on the unique relationship between Product Management and Customer Success. To better align Product and CS, ask the CSMs what are the two-to-three pieces of data they could present to customers that are not part of the standard reports.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As you know how these things work when you’re putting a presentation together you think what’s the one slide that can summarize the best of times and worst of times. And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. We had one of our execs in our New York office. But maybe they were volunteers.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

It has a lot around servant leadership about focus on the customer and what have you. And that forced me to just be present. Sam Lee, I have a virtual mentor Sam Walton – Whatever you think about Wal-Mart, which I don’t love, but like if you read that book that book has impacted me a lot. So in some ways I had no choice.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content. We also did a lot of co-marketing.

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