Mind the Product

JANUARY 12, 2017

As the crucial nexus in the product development framework, their plate is all too often full with business demands, technical requirements, and marketing concerns. 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. Develop Your Technical Skills (or Fake it Till you Make it).

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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. This may include reviewing quantitative metrics, conducting customer surveys, and more. Chief Product Officers are to Product what Chief Technology Officers are to technology in their organizations.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. It gave me two photos of a smartly-dressed young, white man in a corporate office setting. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Recently, I did a little experiment. Because he is. Again…Why?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

Two years in, I’ve learned a ton , and the podcast is consistently a top 10 technology podcast globally , with a 5.0 average star rating across nearly 4,000 reviews. First episode vs. last episode To reinforce this lesson, here are the first episodes from some of your favorite tech podcasts. Clearly not A+ on day one.

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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 reviewing a feature. 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.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, the CTO gave us information on the technical limitations. Last but not least, before going to India, we let a couple of our designers at UX Studio review the platform and share their thoughts with us. These people provided us with their understanding of the market and the medium to long term vision of the company.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. You also need to name KPIs for product people. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. Product managers for the digital world. Author: Chandra Gnanasambandam , Martin Harrysson.

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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. However, their narratives often remain eclipsed in the grander narrative.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It will take a lot of your time to review and assess every company’s website manually. 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. Capitol Tech Solutions. Wasted time means lost opportunities.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. For the record, I anonymized the name of our design system and the UI kit. Given that most of our projects and product initiatives operate in fast-paced environments, minimizing dependencies, reviews, and blockers is a shared goal within our digital organization.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. I first got started in SEO, I think at around 16 years old.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for for four consecutive years.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Review Article: The Intersection Between Digital Transformation and a Barbershop Quartet by Dave Cliffe. A good mix of attendees from B2B and B2C software technology companies. SaaStr Annual.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

One anecdote I heard recently: an agile expert convinced a company to pay him $2K per head to train every single employee in their technology organization in Scrum. The tech organization had over 50 people, but only a third of those were actually developers. Total cost, well over $100K. Not all agile is bad agile.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

There were some things that I’d been doing in my role or at past jobs that as I was introduced to it, I was like, “Oh, this is like that thing I was doing, but it’s got a name and more of a process to it than what I was already doing.” ” Super helpful. Teresa: That’s pretty common.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally. And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. And it’s technically incredibly complicated.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

This brings us to an important question that every product manager and the associated tech teams ask themselves every time they dip their feet in the river of building digital products. Although machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are buzzwords in today’s tech industry and some very solid products have been built using ML.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. We didn’t really know what to call this talk so we gave it this name. They were not review quarterlies. Now he’s the CTO. So do you still give yourself particularly if you’re a technical guy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

Accordingly, it is not an exaggeration to argue that open-source is the foundation of so much technology we use every day. We apply technology to do our jobs, learn, and engage with the world. And its influence continues to expand, democratizing technology today and fostering innovation in the future.

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