What Makes a Great CTO?
Posted by Chuck Geiger and Marty Cagan on June 18, 2008 Tags: CTO, company culture, management, product development, engineering The job of the product manager is to define the products that the product development organization will build. Even with the greatest product ideas, if you can’t build and launch your service, it remains just an idea. So your relationship with the product development organization is all important. I thought I would discuss in this article the leader of the product development organization. I wrote this piece together with my partner Chuck Geiger, as he has run several world-class product organizations. I have often said that if as product manager you have a good working relationship with your product development counterpart, then this is a great job. If you don’t, you’re in for some very tough days. So in the spirit of developing a better appreciation for what makes a great product development organization, we offer this summary. First, let’s be clear which o
