The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

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. Absolutely not.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. Photo credit: Y Oslo Teresa Torres: Good morning.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 2, 2025

companies selling software valued between $1,000 to $100,000 via Webex, narrowing their potential customer base to just 5,000 people. 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. Gong, for example, initially targeted U.S.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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ProductCraft

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On this week’s episode of Product Love, I sat down with Cai GoGwilt, the CTO of Ironclad. Ironclad is digital contract management software that lets companies design and deploy any type or complexity contract on their own. In this episode, we talked a lot about core values and evangelizing the product.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. Overall, generative AI is a transformative asset in the software engineering lifecycle, from conception to deployment.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Look to India, where an elite ecosystem of developers delivers world-class results at a fraction of domestic costs. The Indisputable Case: Why India is the Premier Destination for Software Development Outsourcing The global outsourcing landscape offers numerous options for businesses seeking to optimize their software development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. As we mentioned, engineering management is different from that of software engineering.

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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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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

DevOps is a software development methodology that can help legacy businesses streamline their digital transformation efforts. In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. He’s worked as a game developer at Simon and Schuster , as a producer at Nickelodeon , and had a variety of product roles at companies like Pendo and Zendesk , all interspersed with periods of consulting.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One  And there’s no ongoing maintenance without a separate service contract.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You see back in 2015, I was contracting for Telstra (AT&T for Australia), and I was dedicated to their smart home product offering. It was the honeymoon period of IoT, and as a product manager with a software background, it exposed me to an incredible world of hardware, firmware and industrial design principles that have stuck with.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Feature flags provide so much for software organizations: they allow teams to separate code deployment from feature release, test in production, run experiments, and more. This idea is called the expand-contract pattern. Feature flags provide software development teams with the necessary tools to have successful feature releases.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? Do you have any existing hosting relationships?

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Economic Growth The technology sector is a significant contributor to economic growth. Companies like Valerian Technology, with a focus on technology consulting and software architect services, play a pivotal role in this ecosystem, driving both innovation and economic prosperity.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When we welcome new subscribers to the Business of Software newsletter, we point them towards our catalogue of talks from previous conferences. Q | How to move from being a consulting to product business. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. Unsubscribe anytime.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation? Are you ready?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

About Blaise Transit Blaise is an AI-based software platform that allows transit operators to run on-demand bus services using their existing vehicles. We’ve helped provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level.

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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. And the damage is tainting the reputation of a great way to build software in complex environments. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.)

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts. 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.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

He hosts Proddys, an annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding software products, and The Product Podcast. Hiring expensive consultants or setting up innovation labs doesn’t fly anymore. These aren’t software companies, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t digital companies. There’s more. What do they have in common?

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

Moreover, staff-scheduling software and real-time communication tools streamline workforce management and enhance staff productivity. By embracing technology solutions, companies in the hospitality industry can facilitate seamless interdepartmental coordination, reducing manual errors and improving overall operational efficiency.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. 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.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

What makes Business of Software Conference speakers so smart? In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. Like most smart people, they read a lot. This year’s book list is here.

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