Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

What makes Business of Software Conference speakers so smart? I’m also reading Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice and Frieda Kapor-Klein’s Giving Notice (a book about why it’s hard to keep a diverse workforce due to unintentional bias). Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Start early. Caught your interest? The LinkedIn Incident.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. I diligently prioritized and managed the epics and stories, moving them into the next two or three sprints in the sprint backlog. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development. Let’s review the three key types of outsourcing arrangements and what the differences among them mean to you as a customer.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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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. Capitol Tech Solutions (CTS) is a digital design, software development, and marketing agency headquartered in Midtown, Sacramento. Jives Media maintains an excellent rating of 5 out of 5, having over 93 happy clients reviews, according to Clutch.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The majority of the attendees are from business and enterprise software/SaaS, consumer and web. 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. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

Chief Technology Officer of PX, Gainsight. Mickey’s Take “While most companies realize the need to adopt PLG strategies, they are not always in the best position to do so due to heavy product investment tied to provisioning and onboarding complexity. Mickey Alon. Key Findings.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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. And it’s really thinking about the quality of the code in that area.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. In December, we hosted our inaugural event in Chicago to celebrate the opening of our regional office there. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. In December, we hosted our inaugural event in Chicago to celebrate the opening of our regional office there. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. In December, we hosted our inaugural event in Chicago to celebrate the opening of our regional office there. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

yellow_postit) Apple is a complete laggard in this space due to years of restrictions on research. Despite massive support for, and applications of, machine learning throughout their software+hardware ecosystem, Apple was blindsided by the generative AI explosion and is playing catch-up. Apple Time moves far slower than AI Time.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

Being on call out of office hours is inherently disruptive to your life. Uptime is influenced by many factors such as the software architecture and the quality of day to day operations. Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Who was deciding on that output? We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course. Ellen: Basically, nobody else wanted to be project manager.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Marty Hagewood, a software development manager at EMC Insurance Companies, experienced this first-hand. Large companies’ needs are becoming more complex due to emerging regulations around privacy and security. Software development tools power a broad array of operations on the journey from concept to code to customer.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

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 so every product is three products, you multiply five times three got 15 code bases to deal with and it’s like quickly, you can’t do it as a small company. And it was a mess. That worked well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Or is it like, “Hey, if this is a consistent pattern, then we need to make sure no one ever repeats it, and we’ll have a principle about the positive behavior we want.” Our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers love, value use, etc. Like… Paul Adams: Ship good software.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this cathartic talk from Business of Software Europe 2018, Tim talks about some of the lessons learned he learned during some very, very tricky days for DataSift. Tim Barker (CEO, DataSift) – “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times”: Every CEO Ever… from Business of Software Conference.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

” Autonomy (project) or code monkey (tasks), which do you think your dev teams will prefer? Scope shapes Shape Up warns us that not all scopes have the nice layer-cake shape with a layer of UI over a thin supporting layer of back-end code. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. See you soon!”

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