TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Getting Buy-in from Leadership Business leaders are often concerned about how their tech teams will react to an external technical review. Let’s assume that you’ve already expressed your frustrations with technical leadership.

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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.” In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. Both are true.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Product teams can then execute by building, testing, and deploying products to achieve the desired outcome. Marty advocates for a return to the traditional product model, where product leaders concentrate on strategy, and product managers drive discovery and deliver solutions that generate value for both customers and the business.

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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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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs. Identify their challenges, features that spark their interest, and solutions that can be rapidly tested.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Did you take note of user stories that may remain in the Sprint?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! Blaise has been working with Bain Public since 2019, after meeting them at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator.

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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. Attend or listen in on a discovery interview and a usability test to hear, first-hand, what customers are saying about your space and products. What should they uncover?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Ken Norton needs no introduction.

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2020

Antonio Piraino, CTO at Sciencelogic. Bobby Tahir, CTO at Hobsons. Testing and screening for the characteristics that make a good employee is very difficult. The role of leadership in teams was also discussed. Those facilitators were: Ed Barrientos, CEO at Brazen. Team development is hard.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Test yourself: as a product leader, are you dealing with these things, or are you simply following the direction of senior management and try to build a product that would make the most out of this direction? considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

For example in the early phases of development the CTO will more likely have the role of a key stakeholder, in the phase of commercialisation eventually the Commercial leadership team will require significantly more regular check-ins and support from the PM to adjust the tasks around the product effectively.

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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  Especially at the leadership level, this calls for more empathy, pattern recognition, and cross-functional goal alignment.  Then, as quickly as possible, the team shifts to the next post-sale implementation.  

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

The first thing I did was hire somebody who knew a lot more about performance marketing than I did, and I was honest about the fact that I’m really good at asking questions to learn and test assumptions, but that doesn’t mean I can talk about the intricate details of setting up a really great search or display campaign.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data. By sharing decision rights with your CTO you may find yourself making plans based on more realistic effort estimates and a collaborative vision set with both the Why and How. With customers.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

5) A/B test product features. (6) 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) The six steps are: (1) Let product management take the lead. (2) 2) Conduct one-on-one interviews. (3) 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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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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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. Certifications.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. Manage experiments: We all love A/B testing. Step Two: Determine KPIs.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

The idea was, as a small team of three, to quickly explore and understand what we wanted to build, ground the conversations with stakeholders into something tangible and test the product with the partners who would create our courses. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leadership. 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. 3 // Leadership. I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Culture & Teams.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

If you’re ever looking for a think-outside-the-box type of exercise that’ll test your UX chops , this post is for you. Julie’s deconstruction of the perils of data and A/B testing was too on-the-nose to be left off the list. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. Author: Tarun Chakravorty.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He says you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests (RAT) instead because “there is no need to build more than what’s required to test your largest unknown.” You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. Author: Teresa Torres.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Take test management, for example. Atlassian partnered with companies like Xray, SmartBear, and Mabl so teams can manage their automated tests without leaving Jira. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. A fond farewell.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

One of many tests they tried was to move to a subscription service. The results of Alex’s experiments and early successes gave Alex the confidence to propose to the BBC leadership a new product vision and strategy which she called “BBC Out Of Home.” Get people to sign up for a month, and offer them unlimited movies.

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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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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. “I started my career in software testing at Apple.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And once we’ve done all this we ship and we ship tiny little increments in each one we learn we test we measure and we work out what we should do. We can do this by multivariate testing or once we know we have a direction of travel then we can build up and just continue to iterate on what we’ve released.

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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. And then the leads our leadership team meets for 90 minutes every Thursday. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

It should be a good test. Now he’s the CTO. If I’m not if I’m not involved in the day to day operation of the company and also I want to know what we’ll break first. And I told the team keep calm and carry on and you know we can do it. You know the feminist poster I was trying to not doing a good job anyways.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And we kicked off projects where we didn’t really focus on the known unknowns that we need to do hypothesis testing. And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. We had one of our execs in our New York office. This is turning into a therapy session here… entrepreneurs anonymous!

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. And amazingly it was taking two times the revenue of any other machine and casino from the trial phase. And it seemed an absolute no brainer. And we worked with management and so on but we never told any of these guys – the dealers.

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