Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Though they may not be the ones pressing the “purchase” button, they’re the ones whose names are on the checks. The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). While the IT team might be the hands that deploy your product, the CTO is the one who ultimately needs convincing.

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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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Centercode

JANUARY 26, 2023

My name is Luke Freiler. I am a co-founder of Centercode, and as of 2009 I have taken on the role of CEO after spending 8 years serving as CTO and leading the design of the Centercode beta test platform.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. Then came the decision to launch Crafty CTO and suddenly I had a burning need for art, starting with a logo. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint.

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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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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. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas We provide value by targeting our review towards key components across your application stack.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. We don’t know what product leaders do, and disagree about what’s most important in a new one.

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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. What’s in a name? Nidhi Kamat: Hi, my name’s Nidhi Kamat. I’m Liam Geraghty.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Dual Role of the Product Leader When you look at the product leader’s role (code name: CPO) compared to their peers (namely CMO, CTO, CRO, CFO), the product leader’s role stands out. When you get that everything is your business, don’t forget to include in that, well, the business side of the company.

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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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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

take on a large competitor by literally naming them and then positioning them into a corner – using their own positioning against them. make sure your customers understand who your REAL competition is.

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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. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart. That’s why I called it “typical.” Maybe you have a Database Director, too.

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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. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Write their names down and than ask yourself, who couldn’t sleep well when this project fails? Review the list of all people from the project team, and when you classify each one, it is the next step to focus on the group classified as stakeholders and key stakeholders.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Job Responsibilities and Duties A step above Senior Product Managers at some companies are the Product Leaders (although they may not necessarily go by that name). Image Credit: Transistor by Alexandra Manokhina Job Responsibilities and Duties Not every company with product management teams will have a Chief Product Officer.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. Establish naming conventions and make your team stick to them. Make one person responsible, at the end of the day, for data integrity and cleanliness. Actionable Experimentation.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve noticed this over and over in conversations with attendees, Q&A sessions with speakers, and as a user of several products made by the community (I’m looking at you, YouCanBook.Me , Zapier , Doist , and Balsamiq , to name but a few). Don't miss out - sign up now: Mark – thank you Paddy, for everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 14, 2023

Most promising idea: a name collision in a shared scratchpad area (e.g. I saw a case or two where the content seemed to be authored by a name similar to the name / author of the document that I uploaded. A real Python person might have a clue but all I can do is speculate. an S3 bucket). Why do I think that?

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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. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. A good CEO is close to their teams.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Drift’s co-founder and CTO Elias Torres stated in our e-book How To Turn Customer Feedback Into Product Value : “Only our users are able to come up with improvements that can truly get their jobs done.” . In the recent 5 years, the iPhone plus series brought back big phones to relieve our eyeballs from the increased screen time.

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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!). creating a community of practice for their organisation. getting a promotion.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

You should be the first to want to link your name to a product, and the first one to want to show it to people. You will be in a much better position to explain to your CTO why you absolutely need those four weeks of backend refactoring. If you feel the product does not fit your personal vision, make it fit. Work on Your Eloquence.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, the CTO gave us information on the technical limitations. Another good example of a problem, that is specific to the local context is that some cities are so big that many people don’t even know the different districts by name. Local problems and solutions.

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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. Also, we kept in mind how we could help and guide first-time users with booking while also inspiring them. The UX team.

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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. The manager may point at Sallyanne while saying her name, or, for a different effect, bite their lip after the word “please”.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 7, 2023

In fact, this blog got its name thanks to Midjourney, which delivers the “Illustrated” part. I love Midjourney , use it almost every day to generate the illustrations that are an important component of this blog. I happily pay $10/mo for these benefits.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 5, 2023

”" iOS 17 Stickers is a terrible name, but I think this will be a great feature–like iOS’s “photo subject select / cut” on steroids. New Mac Pro: I was very amused when, as Apple talked about this beast having 7 PCIe slots and mentioned what you’d use them for, they skipped one little item … GPUs.

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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. Then we realized that, hey, like this small thing, which is just the name of the company, which if you talk to a Fortune company, probably say, it doesn’t really matter. Food for thought for anyone on the Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death….

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. And in meetings and conversations where those opportunities are being discussed, a sponsor makes sure your name pops up, and they’re maybe pushing those opportunities your way.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

You also need to name KPIs for product people. 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. . #14 Product people KPIs aren’t about the product. Author: Chris Butler. 15 Enter the Matrix—Lean Prioritization. .”

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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. I recently had a Mastodon exchange with John Gruber of Daring Fireball (and Markdown ) fame. The new server will be open to those with paid Medium accounts.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

”—namely are they allowed SSH access to this server? There’s authentication—“who are you and how do I know you’re telling the truth about that?”—and ”—and authorization—“what’s this user allowed to do?”—namely

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

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Product Culture

MARCH 6, 2024

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