Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. The blog needed a new name, but I also working on naming the new entity, and realized it might be possible to find a name that would work well for both. And did I mention that I learned HTML and CSS along the way?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas This data is typically arranged in rows and columns, akin to what you'd find in databases, spreadsheets, or CSV files. Our team is excited to be working at the forefront of this revolution.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace. Sketchnote.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. To head these off, we start by reviewing your team’s overall methodologies, and then drill down to details like source control workflow, ticket management, and code review processes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments. What does a Product Manager do?

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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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. In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager. What’s in a name?

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. but more on this later…).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Why This Happens Product management is a unique role in so many ways. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. When do they feel that they can no longer do it themselves?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. A tool to support product managers is stakeholder identification and how this results in a stakeholder map.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. The middle managers—the directors—often reflect layers in the architecture. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart.

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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. There are seven key areas where I see that product managers can benefit from acting techniques. 7 Areas Where Acting Techniques can Help.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Across two information-filled days, we’ll host over 20 sessions with the biggest names in product to guide you on the road to product-led growth. You’ll hear from the best leaders in Product Management. If you have been fortunate enough to attend any of our Pulse events, you know you can expect a world-class experience.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

As product management continues to evolve, many new practices have been put in place to optimize product teams. Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. New tools for product management teams appear frequently, each promising to improve the process in some way.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And no one knows this better than Zanade Mann, founder and Managing Director of the Black Women’s Business Collective. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Tracking feature requests from customers is a blessing, and also a nightmare for Product Managers. But how to do that so that it’s frictionless for the users and manageable for you? Below you can see how our product managers work with feature requests. Step 3: Manage feature requests like a breeze. I’m only kidding.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). a manager or boss) tells us to shoot for. getting a promotion.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

Product managers and their more recent Agile brethren, product owners, hold one of the most demanding positions in an organisation. Product management in this context can feel like chaos, the type of which can either be controlled or skidding along thin ice. Learn the ins and Especially the Outs First. Don’t be Afraid to Listen.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

With this revamp, senior management hoped to achieve a radical improvement in their user experience, as opposed to the incremental refinements they had been working on in recent times. In order to get the full picture, we talked to different members of the management board, for example, the CEO, the Head of Marketing, and the Head of Product.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Yet for many cloud CEOs, the only part of their business that they are the most blind about is the aspect that’s most existential to being a software company—namely the product. ” 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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. 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. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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UX Studio

APRIL 29, 2019

We worked closely with the CTO, the Head of Product, and an in-house designer. Vehicle category order and naming also didn’t make themselves obvious at first sight. We also asked them to name each group. We hope we could serve you with an interesting read and you managed to pick up some UX-related learnings. The UX team.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Better Idea: AWS Systems Manager Session Manager Our development partner suggested a better solution, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager , which enables tunneled sessions into the AWS environment and leverages AWS IAM to manage access. ”—namely are they allowed SSH access to this server?

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Gruber had just written a short piece about Medium launching their own Mastodon server – with the fun, short domain name of me.dm. Some commercial platforms, like Blogspot/Blogger, have managed to have that kind of longevity. I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers. Why he doesn’t worry too much about what might happen in the future.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

A success story of an enterprise design system establishment, rollout and implementation at a multinational insurance company Managing design at scale, achieving a level of design consistency and quality. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Reference: Design Systems 101 by Nielsen Norman Group.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Drawing upon a rich vein of experiences — from leadership roles in engineering to insightful albeit brief stints as a founder and CTO and steering roles focusing on morphing concepts into market-ready products — my tenure in this vibrant ecosystem has been incredible.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up Subscribe to One Thing Weekly Name * First Name Last Name Email * Our Privacy Policy * You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at bruce@productculture.com.

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

Your CTO has a goal to improve uptime. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up Subscribe to One Thing Weekly Name * First Name Last Name Email * Our Privacy Policy * You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at bruce@productculture.com.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 20, 2019

I went from being stumped to coming up with ten names of people I wanted to thank. Your office manager who sets out healthy snacks for you. The postal worker who always remembers your name. Introduction: Greeting (Hi/Dear/Hello [Name]). From there, you’ll likely remember others who deserve your thanks.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

For my podcast, you might think: how many nerds would listen to a podcast about product management? So I focused on making it the best podcast out there on product management for those people. AI + product management? My podcasting lessons so far 1. But I knew there would be at least 100. And the audience grew with me.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Our user experience professionals have already analyzed the expertise of dozens of design agencies in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, to name a few. In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. What’s In a Name? At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead. Let’s unpack. How many/how long?”

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Specifically, we’ll employ the help of the recently published 2023 State of Product Management Report. Traditionally, product managers have reported to either engineering or marketing leaders. So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

It is a multi-sided platform, connecting product managers and product people who want to exchange their used books. The books in this marketplace are business-related, especially in the field of product management and software development. Describe your potential customers with their name, age, and profession. But there is more.

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