The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. The History of Office Design In light of David’s post, we wanted to surface a few events that led to our current ways of working.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. She expresses love for her office space by applying a comfortable “disco” and “pink-themed” home decor to her cubicle.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft, for example, depends on manufacturers (Dell/HP) and retailers (Best buy) to sell its software. How do you, for example, address a support call at 2 AM in the night because the market requires a mission-critical response? Marketing is one example. Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. Goldratt, a business consultant known for his theory of constraints, and Jeff Cox. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. make sure your customers understand who your REAL competition is.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

However, we do know something about the design of its fire alarm system… As the New York Times explained: “The fire warning system at Notre-Dame took dozens of experts six years to put together, and in the end involved thousands of pages of diagrams, maps, spreadsheets and contracts.” It was also badly designed.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Who must be consulted? For example, consider RFPs. Adding an embedded video to the CTO’s sales presentation that explains technical decisions and future directions. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who is informed? Scheduling webinars about technical directions.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Who must be consulted? For example, consider RFPs. Adding an embedded video to the CTO’s sales presentation that explains technical decisions and future directions. Confusion about roles and responsibilities exists in most organizations. Who is responsible? Who is informed? Scheduling webinars about technical directions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. A significant part of the developer community meanwhile seems to despise Scrum , for example. Stakeholders bypass Product Owners by talking directly to developers or the CTO.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

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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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2020

The last thing we wanted was for patients to go to an urgent care facility, where they might contract COVID-19, only because they couldn’t reach their primary care physician virtually,” said Sherry Slick, CTO and COO of OurHealth. This is one fantastic example of how that played out,” said Sherry. Full-Circle Care.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Stage 1: Bring In The Consultants Partnering with the right consultant during the ideation phase of your startup has several crucial benefits. Plus, consultants know how to help you get that first round of funding, which you’re going to need in order to launch your product.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

For example, if you believe strongly psychological safety you will attribute company success to psychological safety. For example, if I’m doing lots of one-on-one coaching sessions then I would view this as research and ask myself how can I scale this delivery? But that’s often one factor of many in a successful company.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. To give you an example, this is the Inside Intercom podcast, right? My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. The complexity of what we were trying to accomplish became more evident as each day passed. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Think: Apple’s iMac, T-Mobile’s un-contract, or Blackberry’s latest shift to software. One of the event’s panelists was Jeff Judge, the CTO of ParkWhiz , a company that’s solving problems related to traffic and congestion in urban areas. “I Some of the most impressive innovations are driven by fears of existential threats.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For example, suppose the client didn't understand something critical about your technical choices related to security. But for the long term, let's get marketing to solve this for all sales teams—with an ebook or a video explanation by our CTO for the reasons behind your choices. . Where is product management?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 23, 2019

Can you provide three examples of how you navigated the contracting and engagement process with a company of my size? If my company is large, I’m interested in how my potential partner has worked through contracting in the past. I want to hear stories of my potential partner helping companies like mine find success.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. I you know I think this this is certainly the case in this example for me I knew these guys. I’ve had quite a varied career.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For example, the co-founders of Soylent , a complete nutrition drinkable meal replacement, met in the San Francisco Bay Area and started inventing the product there; BEYOND MEAT , a plant-based meat substitute, and Trader Joe’s , a grocery store that sells organic food, were founded in the Los Angeles area.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Sound Byte.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. And so jeetu crowd is a great example. So let me give you an example of this.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

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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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

One example: the script currently runs in CLI mode with arguments, but it’s not implemented in the latest-best-Python way, and I’d definitely want to correct that. As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. Typer from Tiangolo looks like a promising solution, by the way).

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

For example, a designer could take on some project management responsibilities without anyone worrying about how slightly different billing rates might impact the weekly cost. The questions in this series are helpful for focusing conversations with sales consultants from potential partners.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Meeting notes app-maker Hugo is a great example of the impact the Atlassian ecosystem has for our partners. All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. Take test management, for example. A fond farewell.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

And if more and more of us are doing the job we’re doing – and the more we speak with each other – how rewarding it is, how hard it is – then we’re gonna be building a more inclusive environment because the technology we’re building is more inclusive. We’re leading by example. Laura : “Having examples.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Some sprints, for example, might require the team to take on short-term technical debt to deliver features needed to stay on par with other product offerings in a highly competitive market. EBG Consulting. She is founder and principal of EBG Consulting , which helps organizations adapt how they collaborate to improve business outcomes.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“It became clear to us from the beginning that we had to find ways to give each team a space to organize their flags and prevent teams from stepping on each other’s toes when it comes to managing feature flags. ” – Patricio Echague , Co-founder & CTO, Split Software. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

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.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. She's currently a Senior TPM at WeWork and has previously held Senior TPM positions at Facebook(Instagram) and provided consulting to MIO Partners. What kind of person is best suited for a technical program management position?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I am the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group, where we help find really good freelance jobs for high-end consultants at very large companies. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Laura: Exactly.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For example, Zeplin and Figma are used to hand in pixel-perfect designs. As an expert design agency, we offer digital product design, user experience research, UX consulting and training, customized solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. UX consulting and training to help you develop a user-centric mindset.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Organizations are increasingly facing data localization compliance regulation and customer contracts that can include clauses such as “may not move data to other countries without prior agreement”. For example, if Citrix monitoring is the need for your customer, just deliver this.

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