Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

To capture the portfolio and product strategy, I prefer to work with the Portfolio Vision Board and Product Vision Board. Follow the links above to find out more about the three tools, and watch the video below to understand how you can connect product strategy, product roadmap, and product backlog.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! It articulates how the full vision will be delivered. Avoid the temptation to write software.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Promo is a leading video creation platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Yariv Azatchi is the chief technology officer at Promo and is the man connecting between the products and data in the company. Our company enables businesses of all sizes to promote their vision without limits through video content.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Bianca Starling is a Senior Product Manager at Voxy, a global language teaching platform that uses AI and machine learning technologies to provide adaptive, real-life learning experiences to learners.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

She noticed that big video screens in city centres were just playing what was on TV, so she had an editorial team create some custom content and then measured the audience reach and engagement. She teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. He began his product work at Broadcast Interactive Media, where he launched a video publishing platform for broadcast news sites.

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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. Start With a Customer-first Approach. Typically C-suite stakeholders have a unique function or goal.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cultivate a long-term vision: Develop a strategic plan with clear long-term goals, as demonstrated by Butterfield’s master plan for Slack. Maintain a focus on your vision while remaining adaptable to changes.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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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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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Pro extracting structured output from video prompts parallels my own experience using GPT-4 Vision to extract structure from heirloom recipe images (often handwritten and horribly mangled): … I’m pretty astonished by this. The ability to analyze video like this feels SO powerful.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With so many opinions being shared, there is no limit to the possibilities in data, and leveraging the power of natural language processing , computational linguistics , and other technologies are only the beginning of what Canvs does for their customers. especially when it comes to understanding the impact of video and social media content.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2020

In the case of Showmax, I was the Chief Product Officer, so it was possible to build it into the organization, working with the CTO. In the case of Showmax, since it was a streaming video company, we were largely focused on our total number of paying subscribers.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this talk from BoS Europe 2019, John talks about how he set about educating himself by learning from others and why he decided that his business had to have a global vision from the outset. Video, Sketchnote, & Slides below. The company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in May 2018. Sketchnote.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 23, 2024

Where to find Ami Vora: • LinkedIn: [link] • Substack: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Ami’s background ( 02:00 ) The myth of perfection in success ( 07:55 ) Emotionally connecting with the job ( 09:55 ) Embracing curiosity in moments of challenge ( 13:16 ) Thinking in feedback loops ( 17:17 ) The “dinosaur brain” (..)

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat. That’s because a well-designed video game solves for all these problems.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? You can reconfigure the company vision scope and size. Now he’s the CTO. Save Your Place for BoS USA. Upcoming Events. Don't Miss a Thing - Get BoS Updates.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Tom Adeyoola (Founder, Metail) – Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Upcoming Events. BoS USA 2019.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? But facts I’ve discovered that many companies just ask a design team to execute on the vision. Upcoming Events. Don't Miss a Thing - Get BoS Updates. Transcript.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. I had a 13-year career at Microsoft, where I started as an intern working on video games, if you can believe it. Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There were, as always, some early adopters, and some people lived in places that didn’t have a video store, but in truth there wasn’t much of a reason to do this via the postal service when you could just stop by the local Blockbuster store. A flat monthly fee and all the videos they could consume sounded pretty great.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In addition to this, our conversation also covers his time at Altassian and contrasts this with his G2 role, his thoughts on Google updates and how they impact his industry and his vision for the future of SEO. So all of that led me to get started at the age around 16 when I was playing a lot of video games.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals. Video, Slides, & Transcript below. You need the Point of View pitch. Upcoming Events.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO. The data backs it up.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So David and I set the direction, and the strategy and the vision and sort of where we’re headed. In this talk, recorded online at BoS Conf Online USA, Jason talks about the conception, design and launch of Hey email. Transcript. No one assigns them tasks or tickets, we don’t do that. The teams decide how to build the thing.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Video, Slides and Transcript below. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? The five things in the V2MOM: Your vision which is really the call to action. We had one of our execs in our New York office. Upcoming Events. Thank you for the therapy!

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Simplify security • Cloudinary —The foundational technology for all images and video on the internet — Farhan Thawar is the head of engineering at Shopify, where he oversees more than 1,000 engineers and a platform that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 25, 2025

Evangelizing the idea at hackathons, vision pitches, and product reviews bought our team a small amount of headcount to “explore” the space. Instead: 📌 Build a single vision artifact up front—so everyone understands the broader impact you’re aiming for. Invest in evergreen, visual artifacts.

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