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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change. are unclear, please communicate with your clients and leadership.

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We’re doubling our product teams in San Francisco, Dublin & London

Intercom, Inc.

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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New Ways Of Working | Dame Stephanie Shirley CH | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Free Q&A with Alex Osterwalder Psychology for UX Masterclass. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Transcript coming soon… Upcoming Events. JTBD Masterclass with Bob Moesta Find Your Metrics That Matter Masterclass. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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When You Lead Daily Standups, What Are Your Best Techniques?

The Product Coalition

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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BoS Hangout Replay | Alex Osterwalder & Tendayi Viki | Reviewing Business Models

Business of Software Conference

Free Q&A with Alex Osterwalder Psychology for UX Masterclass. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Hangout Q&A. Upcoming Events. JTBD Masterclass with Bob Moesta Find Your Metrics That Matter Masterclass. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. While this is an important aspect of the product (although product and UX are different roles), it is far from reflecting the product leader’s full responsibility. It makes perfect sense.