Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Ideally, this outcome is a two-way negotiation between an executive at the company, often a chief product officer, a chief design officer, a CTO, and the cross-functional product team. We can actually test our designs. We’re going to test, does this solution address the target opportunity?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. The CIO or CTO may not be the budget holder, but they may control the purchasing decision. The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Specifically, and most importantly, they should ask, To what extent will implementing this item test or support the unique value proposition? With the above fresh in your mind, appreciate the value in user testing to remove obvious barriers and pain points but also to take onboard potential future features.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

But building a piece of software that is good enough to test on users is a huge job. It is hard to find a way to test your key assumptions without building the whole product but it is a key job for a product manager. I’ve just finished a project that involved scoping an MVP for a technologically complex new product.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

For example, webcams with built-in facial detection sometimes don’t detect people with darker skin , because they were only tested on people with lighter skin. The letter got resounding support, including a rousing endorsement from our co-founder and CTO, Ciaran Lee. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” They tend to interview more and run more assumption tests. Both are true. said in the past week. For the 26.1%

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 2, 2024

As a result, I’ve had to rethink our user testing approach from the ground up. When testing AI products, I focus on the following: Longitudinal validation: Are we testing for a long enough period to understand how engagement changes once the novelty wears off? I sketched this out in the chart below.

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Modus Create

APRIL 10, 2024

Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators , where our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the seventh episode, we bring you Larry Fitzpatrick , Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. We’re now doing test-driven development and more traditional product management. No, I was hired as the lead designer.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. They also began to run small tests to learn how customers would respond in different situations.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 15, 2019

The CEO champions the business vision and its people, the CTO questions value and pushes innovation, the CMO is focused on sales and has the customer front of mind, and the CFO scrutinises operating costs and ROI. A/B test, test landing pages and pricing, conduct interviews. Start With a Customer-first Approach.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Yariv Azatchi is the chief technology officer at Promo and is the man connecting between the products and data in the company. I am the CTO, which means I’m sitting at the intersection between technology, product, and data. I also check the AB tests we have running to see how new features are behaving.

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Centercode

MAY 29, 2019

Software testing teams often find themselves sacrificing quality for speed when it comes to getting updates out on time. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve explored how professionals are using customer testing to scale their resources and manpower within continuous delivery. How Feature Flagging Modernizes Beta Testing.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project? Stay up to date on industry trends: The cryptocurrency industry is rapidly evolving, and it is important for the CTO to stay up to date on the latest technologies, trends, and best practices.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

5) A/B test product features. (6) A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) The six steps are: (1) Let product management take the lead. (2) 2) Conduct one-on-one interviews. (3) 3) Start with customer needs. (4) Read about each at [link].

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

Testing programs to meet user needs using programming languages such as C++, Java, and Python. Given that Directors of Cloud Infrastructure are on the executive team, they will report directly to the CEO or CTO. Chief Technology Officer Truth be told, this position does not require much introduction.

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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? Understand how to manage a full product lifecycle including code reviews, version control, creating coding standards, CI/CD, and testing. Principal Software Engineer Responsibilities Build and maintain well-tested software applications.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively. This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

We chose these particular standard technologies, or boring technologies, because over time these are the technologies that are the safest and fastest for us to use. They’re really battle tested, well trained, well understood and well supported. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! Great stuff!” As a manager, being able to instantly summarize a conversation between my team and the customer is amazing. We don’t think it can today – or at least not “out of the box”!

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TechEmpower - Product Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How do they handle testing? cto , product , saas What are the employees and contractors' skills? Project Management: Get a clear understanding of the company's process. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process? Either way, we can help!"]

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 31, 2023

Get Users (= Acquisition, Referral) Drive Usage (= Activation, Retention) Make Money (= Monetize) Startup Challenges Management: Setting priorities, defining key metrics, reporting progress Product: Build the right features, getting product out quickly, testing for conversion/adoption Marketing: Accessing "web 2.0"

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TechEmpower - Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ensuring Accuracy: How to Test Results Upon deploying AI-driven search tools, validating their accuracy is paramount. Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Zalora CTO Silvia Thom has been based in Singapore since 2013 and previously worked on consumer products in Europe and Japan. This idea of continuous research, for example – we’re just now getting comfortable with being able to readily do customer interviews or usability testing or whatever that might be.”

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

Testimonial: /?test??m??ni?l/ l/ a formal written statement about the qualities of a product or service. Product people usually spend a substantial period of time in a problem-solution space, learning about customers, about their pain points, and seeking opportunities to add value. And the community on the platform is awesome.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 23, 2024

Wali Khan, a healthcare technology leader with over two decades of experience enabling business capabilities through the development of innovative software products and solutions talks about the role of AI in current and future projects, what it takes to be a successful CTO in the healthcare sector and more.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 14, 2024

” She tests for this when hiring by including some flaws in her case studies to see if the candidates notice and/or how they respond when this is pointed out. The best data analysts have soft skills, on top of table-stakes technical ability.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups. We run an annual proposal submission process that culminates in a review with our CTO. There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Blinded by its own vision, the company’s executives ignored the negative feedback the company got in the testing phase. Building Products Customers Need Proven Methods To Build Products Customers Need Working Backward Approach Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO of Amazon.com, wrote an article about Amazon’s working backward approach in 2006.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Test yourself: as a product leader, are you dealing with these things, or are you simply following the direction of senior management and try to build a product that would make the most out of this direction? considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Delivery of code that has clearly not been tested. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Knowing how to spot these signs can help you keep your business on track. Missed deadlines. Last minute scope-cutting to avoid missing deadlines. Marking bugs as fixed that aren’t fixed. Racking up massive overtime.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Startups looking to advertise on TikTok should begin by establishing an organic presence, testing content, and then gradually transitioning to targeted ads. Hiring the wrong individuals not only fails to expedite processes but actually slows down overall progress.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO. Consider starting doing so by testing things that other organizations have successfully used in the past; see the checklist’s questions above. The management insists on every critical change to be approved by them in advance.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

The Basecamp team does a fantastic job of thinking from first principles, questioning the status quo, and coming up with novel practices that they've carefully battle-tested on their own team over the last 15 years of developing Basecamp. Everyone has already had a chance to deep-dive into each shaped project by pre-reading the pitches.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Test Your Assumptions Before Writing Code An important part of growing a startup is understanding the market. A way to do that is to test assumptions. There is often a trade-off between speed and assumption testing. If it’s an assumption, it does not matter, until you can prove it works by testing it on users.”

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