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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. How can CTOs Help? This includes push back from your developers (yet another tool?

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004. What does that mean?

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Road to Product Consensus

The Product Guy

Product teams are a multidisciplinary unit of people, usually none of the members being a direct report to one another (other than the team lead). That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use.

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How to Communicate Product Priorities to Management

The Product Guy

A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. Don’t be the kind of person that only brings problems and no solutions. And then stop right there. Make the right people listen.

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How much do U.S. product managers really make?

Lenny Rachitsky

It shows key statistics, such as lowest and highest salary bands reported and percentiles, including the median salary band (or 50th percentile). 👀 I’ve got a white-glove recruiting service specializing in senior product roles (e.g. Below is a different view of the same data on the distribution of salary for U.S.