PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. Deeply understand core systems and how other applications interact with them. We've got your covered.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Darragh Curran , our Chief Technology Officer, emphasizes how promoting diversity has to be more than just a question of how we hire. Diverse teams are repeatedly proven to be more innovative, productive, and happier.”. Investing in education.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. This might include business-side materials like your product roadmap, business plans, and competitor analysis, as well as technical materials like requirements documentation, screen comps, and project/process systems like Jira and Confluence. By a factor of 100?

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

Introduction: Digital transformation can be challenging for any business, but it can be especially daunting for legacy businesses with entrenched cultures and systems. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption.

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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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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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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team. Mike has a unique career as an engineering leader.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

." — The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations My favorite is when someone asks “what is the objective” right at the start of a meeting. As Johnny Miller of Nervous System Mastery says, you design your environment — and then your environment designs you in return.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. The factory (system) is the sum of the stations (bodies), and all affect each other. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Assessing Compliance Gaps: Maintaining compliance requires thorough evaluation of existing systems, processes, and policies. The company’s leadership should work to identify potential compliance gaps by analyzing data management practices, security protocols, documentation processes, and employee training programs.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

The command-and-control system most companies still cling to is, in fact, disempowering. 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. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers.

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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. Systems and habits that center the customer voice are the best way to create, and maintain, useful customer personas.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

However, we do know something about the design of its fire alarm system… As the New York Times explained: “The fire warning system at Notre-Dame took dozens of experts six years to put together, and in the end involved thousands of pages of diagrams, maps, spreadsheets and contracts.” It was also badly designed.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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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 understanding is that each Hub is powerful alone but better together.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. It’s very comforting, and it almost acts as a support system, which is great.

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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. If you look at the Jack Welch methods for managing, which were the modern applications of, Taylorism for technology, you look at how people are treated in that system. It’d be a constraint within our system.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

So as business is becoming more real-time—information being collected and digested for immediate use in decision-making—the layers of abstraction between a CEO and the key stakeholders and systems must be reduced. I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. This last one is where we have a huge opportunity for improvement.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”. But his career took a sudden turn when his newborn son, AJ, suffered a 45-minute seizure. “But

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. In my experience, unless you change the rewards and recognition system, you can’t have an agile transformation. That’s why I called it “typical.” ” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”. But his career took a sudden turn when his newborn son, AJ, suffered a 45-minute seizure. “But

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. The technology changes but the people don’t.”. But his career took a sudden turn when his newborn son, AJ, suffered a 45-minute seizure. “But

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. An Associate PM has the opportunity to learn from senior product leadership and form a strong foundation on product management. Head of Product or Product Director. Product Manager – Acquisition and Growth.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO. Author: Marty Cagan. Author: Ryan Singer.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And then if you get really sophisticated beyond that, you have an LMS, which is a learning management system, which is more like training software. So I might get more sophisticated, do a content management system.

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