Technical Debt in Product Development

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  • April 27, 2018
Ziad Ismail

Convoy, Chief Product Officer

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Ziad Ishmail leads the product team at Convoy, using cutting-edge data science and product design to optimize freight delivery. Over the course of the product development process, your decisions create technical debt that factors into the profitability of a product initiative. As Ziad outlines, product teams must be mindful of technical debt to prioritize projects and involve cross-functional teams to mitigate its effects.

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Ziad Ismail
Convoy, Chief Product Officer

Ziad Ismail is the Chief Product Officer of Convoy, responsible for data science, design, growth and product teams. Before joining Convoy, Ziad was the Chief Product Officer of Marchex, Chief Executive Officer of CitiKey, and served in other product leadership roles at Microsoft. Prior to that, he spent two winters at the Arctic Circle in the Swedish military. Ziad earned an MSc in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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