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When is the Right Time to Hire a Fractional CTO?

Valerian Tech

It can be beneficial to hire a fractional CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in a variety of situations. When you don't have an in-house technology leader: If you don't have a CTO or a similar technology leader on your team, a fractional CTO can fill that role.

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Is Product Management Under Fire?

The Product Coalition

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities.

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Words matter: Removing exclusionary terminology from our codebase

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. For example, “allow list” could be a better choice than “trusted list” in some situations.

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Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S. Each pod is assigned a clear job-to-be-done, such as improving sales engagement or forecasting accuracy, and takes full ownership of the product development process. This iterative approach helps you gather knowledge without aiming for perfection right away.

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10 Experts On The Right Steps To Product Iteration

Arkenea

Get in touch with us here for a free consultation on your project. 9 Take constant and incremental step towards the vision Simon Cast , CTO & co-founder at ProdPad If you have a product vision, I hope it’s big. Want to get your app development project off the ground?

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Open innovation 2.0–and other innovation insights for product managers May 20, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) R&D is not correlated to innovation. 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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Product Management in AsiaPac

Mind the Product

At Mind the Product, for example, we’ve seen a 26% year-on-year increase in numbers of people interested in coming to our ProductTanks. A quick LinkedIn search ahead of APAC week , for example, showed there were nearly 19,0000 open roles across AsiaPac for product managers or heads of product. But the region is playing catch-up fast.