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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves. The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective.

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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

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. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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The Chocolate Cake Problem

Mironov Consulting

 That they have the attention spans of squirrels, ignoring or forgetting existing commitments and agreed-upon customer targets and roadmaps.  That  That each week they leave a fresh gift (💩) for the tech side to clean up – displacing whatever was planned.  But What Does This Look Like In Practice?

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Security at Intercom: How our InfoSec team protects our customers’ data and trust

Intercom, Inc.

That’s why we embedded Intercom’s InfoSec team within the R&D org and why it reports directly to the CTO, meaning that we are closer to this risk while retaining company-wide visibility and impact. . The tech industry is constantly searching for its unicorn senior 10x developer and InfoSec is no different. “To

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How a multinational insurance company is managing design at scale through a design system

UX Planet

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. As I reviewed the list of applications, platforms and portals, our design standards had extended throughout the entire insurance lifecycle, encompassing quoting, policy access/change, and claims for both licensed brokers and direct consumers.

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What Your Executives Want to See When You’re Presenting Your Roadmap

ProductPlan

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. I understand how much thought (and possibly anxiety) goes into these roadmap presentations. Mistakes I’ve Seen When Presenting Executive Roadmaps.