NextBigWhat

JANUARY 6, 2022

In this deep community cast, Zerodha’s CTO, Kailash shares it all in conversation with Ashish Sinha. How has Zerodha evolved over time, from the v0 of the tech product to today? While the world is going gaga over number of engineers, Zerodha builds and scales with.well just a handful of engineers. How do you think cos.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After a long product career and founding multiple companies, Christian now spends his time working closely with product leaders at companies big and small to implement and improve their discipline of product management. People perceive product management negatively if they haven’t worked with great product managers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Unlike some other roles, like product manager , software engineers can have various job titles and responsibilities, each of which may influence the specific direction of that person. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. Since then, he’s led product management and engineering teams as the company has gone public and scaled to over 5000 employees. Since then, he’s led product management and engineering teams as the company has gone public and scaled to over 5000 employees.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! to run its Product organisation. When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 14, 2020

The Product Manager career path is different from the traditional paths in jobs like coding, sales, etc. Unsurprisingly, there is no standard definition across industries or companies for the career growth of Product Managers. Not every company has the position of a Chief Product Officer (CPO).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In this #mtpcon Digital APAC session, Silvia Thom, CTO at Zalora, reveals her journey from product manager to CTO. She describes challenges she faced, the opportunities she uncovered and offers advice for product managers hoping to undergo a similar move.

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Bain Public

MARCH 6, 2023

The reality is that moral injury can be applied to many professions and industries, especially in product management. Dealing with the Hurdles as a Product Manager Product managers know the ins and outs of product, including the users, the problems, and what needs to be done to fix pain points.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2023

Being a product manager is truly wonderful and diverse job. Here are several questions you should ask yourself before considering a Product Management career. Only you carry the vision and belief of what your product can become. Product Managers are not managers in the sense that they don’t manage people.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. The post How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar appeared first on NextBigWhat. Key takeaways Figure out how to earn money every time a […].

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. A Product Manager? Graphic design?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). So let’s dive in.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. Key takeaways Figure out how to earn money every time a […] More The post How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change. One of the ways we can help is by providing clarity. Part of his vision was “being agile”.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2022

There shouldn’t be a limit to what types of transactions can be done on your phone,” Tom House, CTO at Noble. . “Mobile has been a huge enabler of these heightened expectations, largely replacing the customer service agent of the past. Data included: Ratings and reviews. Interaction and response rates. Popular phrases.

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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.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2017

A friend, who’s recently become a product manager, asked me that recently. She’d inherited a technical product where the engineers already had a view of the direction and deliverables required. As a product manager, what should her role on the team be? How Much Should I Understand? How could she best add value?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

That is why we are so excited to announce we are doubling the size of the Product teams at Intercom over the next 18 months. Our teams across Intercom think and work holistically, so when we talk about Product, we mean engineering, design, product management, research and analytics.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The oldest engineering manager may may be more influential than the newly appointed CTO. If things don’t work and you had ‘told them so’, document the same without blaming anyone with an intention to help the group learn. 7) Identify the key decision makers and ways to work with them.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Feedback Loop

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Karthik Suresh is the CTO and co-founder of Ignition.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). DBAs tasking with managing related databases. Go ahead and make an exhaustive list, then include everyone who is important for the project’s success. An appropriate stakeholder list for BI projects will likely include…. IT Administrators. Business Process Analysts.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” He was on edge. We had been experimenting towards a very concrete goal for two months, and had made a lot of progress. We […].

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. The Product Kata explains how to do that. YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

The context switching between coding and project+team management can be demanding, and finding individuals who can traverse these two plains is difficult. Having product vision paired with development expertise is a rare combo, and product managers should make it their job to work as closely as possible with these individuals.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Parag Vaish, Head of Digital Product Management, Tesla. Michael Gough, VP Product Design, Uber. Katharine Bailey, SVP-Head of Product, Wall Street Journal. Robin Daniels, Global Head of Product, LinkedIn. Jason Jedlinski, Head of Consumer Product, USA Today Network. and 60 more to be announced!

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 14, 2024

Where to find David DeSanto: • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] • Threads: [link] Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: [link] • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) David’s background ( 04:20 ) Maintaining an epic beard ( 05:29 ) Why GitLab publicly shares team meetings ( 09:49 ) The (..)

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