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Cardagraph Product Updates 9/11/23

We have exciting updates coming this week and I wanted to make sure you know what to expect. ‍What's New (or currently rolling out).

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Striking a Balance: The Struggle between Engineering and Product Teams in Software Companies

When engineering can confidently communicate their capacity and its utilization, it brings transparency to their efforts, empowering them to stand by their work. Simultaneously, product teams armed with accurate capacity insights can craft timelines that are not based on wishful thinking but on empirical evidence.

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Cardagraph Announces Additional Speakers for DELIVERED: A One-Day Event for Product Managers and Leaders

Newly announced DELIVERED speakers include:Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer, BambooHR; Alan Gee, VP of Product, Mountain America Credit Union; Rachel Beckstead, Sr. Director of Product Management, Pura; Brad Romney, Co-Founder, Verdi; John Richards, Founder and Managing Partner, Startup Ignition Ventures; Tyler Richards, Co-Founder, General Partner, Startup Ignition Ventures; Jennifer Moore, Head of Product, Clozd‍.

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Cardagraph Announces the Launch of DELIVERED: A One-Day Event for Product Managers and Leaders

Lehi, UT, February 1, 2023 — Cardagraph, a leading provider of product delivery solutions, is excited to announce the launch of DELIVERED, a new event for the software product manager and product leader community. The event will take place on April 14, 2023, at the Awaken Center in South Jordan, Utah.

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Cardagraph Promotes Co-Founder Spencer Jack To New CRO Position

As a co-founder, Spencer has built Cardagraph from the ground up with co-founder and CEO Bentley Wilson. Jack has created a strong sales process and has naturally focused on revenue growth in his previous role. CRO is the next natural progression for him and Cardagraph. 

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Product Myth #3: It’s Not Worth Estimating The Work, It’s Always Wrong Anyway.

Product development has historically been much more of an art than a science. In turn, the way the product vertical operates often feels more like putting out fires than running a successful team. Because of its artistic nature, the vertical as a whole has done a large, collective shoulder shrug in determining how to solve many of the problems that face it:‍

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Predicting Timing + Why It's Important

Through meeting with hundreds of product leaders and talking with our current and potential customers, I have confirmed that we are solving the biggest unsolved problem that product leaders are faced with every single day.

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Cardagraph Brings in Veteran CTO, Bart Palmer, PhD. to Further Advance Product Forecasting Technology

Salt Lake City, Utah, [August 3, 2022]—Cardagraph, the technology company that is dramatically improving software development estimating and delivery using its unique approach and platform, is announcing it has brought on Bart Palmer, PhD. as Chief Technology Officer to advance the technology arm at the company. 

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Product Myth #2 — Timelines Hurt Engineering Teams.

Product development has historically been much more of an art than a science. In turn, the way the product vertical operates often feels more like putting out fires than running a successful team. Because of its artistic nature, the vertical as a whole has done a large, collective shoulder shrug in determining how to solve many of the problems that face it

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Turo, Podium, And More Select Cardagraph to Better Plan and Predict Their Product Delivery

Turo, Podium, And More Select Cardagraph to Better Plan and Predict Their Product Delivery —C-suite and product leaders of top companies take action to improve their product execution trends and deliver commitments on time using Cardagraph

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Product Myth #1 — Speed > Predictability

Product Myth #1: Speed > PredictabilityFaster does not always mean better. It’s pretty obvious that if code is written quickly but includes a lot of bugs, it is not inherently better than code that’s written slower with higher quality. Either way, the more important point in this equation lies in who’s relying on the timelines that are set. 

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How To Manage Your Product And Engineering Teams In An Economic Downturn

We have been teaching our customers ways that they can save money for the company — no matter the title or seniority within the product/engineering teams. 

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My Experience: Why Product Affects Marketing, Sales, and Finance. 

Yes, the power of Cardagraph is in the major problems that we solve and how we solve them. But the real power behind this all is the shared experiences we have with each and every product and technical leader out there. We didn’t just stumble upon this idea — we have experienced the pain tremendously. We KNEW there had to be a fix to the mismanagement of product delivery timelines. 

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Cardagraph CEO, Bentley Wilson — How The Internet Saved My Life

Today, I’m 28. I’m the CEO of a company that has raised capital from some the greatest angel investors and human beings that I have been blessed to meet. I’ve also been blessed to work with some incredibly smart people, who I now call friends. That being said this company has been one of the most difficult things I have ever done and gone through. When we first started the company in 2019 we set out to solve the greatest challenge in SaaS: the gap of understanding between developers and the business.

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Which Project Management Tool Is Right For Me?

Product management tools are a dime a dozen, all claiming to be the one that will change your life. How are you supposed to know which one is right for you and your team?

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Predictability: Making Product Development a Masterpiece

Make sure your product development process is as predictable as a piece from a well-known composer. Use the projects and sprints you’ve run in the past as context to make informed decisions about when projects will be completed. Uncover the root problem of issues that pop up by diving deep into the workload, capacity, and velocity of individual teams and people. 

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Which meeting schedule should YOUR team be using?

How often do you need to have them? How do you make sure they’re productive? What metrics should you talk about? The list can go on and on. 

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Top 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2021

Businesses are looking to next-generation databases, data management tools and big data analytics software to help them leverage huge volumes to gain a competitive edge.

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Three Continuous Improvement Principles For Service Companies

How to supercharge your profitability using the manufacturing industry’s secret weapon.

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The Problem With Business Efficiency Analytics

Cardagraph was built on a problem. I experienced this problem first-hand as an executive at a very high growth company.

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The 9 Operational Decisions Managers Have To Make Correctly

Simply put, executives are constantly tasked with solving extremely complex problems within their organizations.

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The 10 Coolest Business Analytics Tools Of 2021 (So Far)

The ability to analyze ever-growing volumes of data – data that’s increasingly spread across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud systems – is critical for businesses to remain competitive today. Here are 10 business analytics tools that caught our attention in 2021 to help meet those challenges.

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Tell Me About Your Logo

What's up with the toucan? I’m here to answer your question. I’m here to answer your question. I know you’re sitting there wondering “why is there a toucan in your logo?”.

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Performance Visibility: The Answer to Operational Problems

What if operations leaders could spend more time addressing, predicting and preventing issues vs. simply reacting to them?

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My Left Thumb and the NBA: Limiting Factors and Diagnosing Organizational Inefficiencies

Like many young boys, I was convinced that I was destined for the NBA. No matter the weather or the temperature you’d find me out in my driveway shooting hoops and envisioning championship-winning buzzer-beaters.

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Monitoring Performance: The Problem With ROI Simplification

In almost all aspects of our lives, we simplify things to make them more understandable.

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Introducing the VDP

What happens when an executive team is asked to manage thousands of employees and stakeholders in an ever changing work environment?

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How to Bake a Cake

How Margins and Profitability Drastically Affect the Value You Deliver

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Cardagraph Raises Funding Led By Jeff Burningham and Partners

On June 16, 2021, process analytics software provider Cardagraph announced it has raised a pre-seed round from prolific investor, Jeff Burningham, Founder of Peak Capital Partners and Peak Ventures.

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Cardagraph Launches Business Productivity Analytics Software; Receives Angel Investment From Notable Utah Investors

Cardagraph, makers of business productivity analytics software, announced today the public beta launch of its SaaS platform, after two years of development and beta testing.

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Automated Reporting for Operators

As an OpEx your job is to keep the ship running smoothly and improve at a high clip. Ideally, you are anticipating issues and addressing surprise challenges with skill, agility, and (above all) speed.

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