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Why Product Managers Should not Report to the CTO

Mind the Product

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. Why Shouldn’t a CTO be the Boss? So if they report to the CTO it creates the impression of bias against the business and user. Being a product manager is no longer being a developer by another name. How can CTOs Help?

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Findings Sessions : A review meeting to decode findings, gauge their business implications, and chalk out a roadmap for the future. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Let’s look at the process in more detail.

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Identifying Stakeholders for Product Success

The Product Guy

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. Write their names down and than ask yourself, who couldn’t sleep well when this project fails?

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What is the Product Manager Career Path?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Using this data, APMs can help influence the product development roadmap, if need be. Nevertheless, Senior PMs may bear more of the burden in developing the broader product roadmap. Chief Product Officers are to Product what Chief Technology Officers are to technology in their organizations.

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The Rise of Product Ops: the New Discipline Powering Product Excellence

ProductPlan

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. From roadmapping to prototyping, the modern product manager has more tools at their disposal than ever before. Establish naming conventions and make your team stick to them.

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How I Use Gainsight PX as a SaaS CEO

Gainsight

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. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. A good CEO is close to their teams. In reviewing a feature.

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Track feature requests & read customer feedback on Slack: what we do at Usersnap

Usersnap

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.” . When you start collecting feature requests, you should also tune your roadmap planning process slightly.