Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. What does a product leader actually do?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 4, 2023

When observing the thoughtful, productive, and transformative individuals we surround ourselves with, we can see they have a village or a personal board of directors that influenced their lives. They serve as mentors, allies, and sometimes sponsors, regardless of their work industry.

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Bain Public

APRIL 19, 2022

Achieving product-driven leadership requires an organizational focus on cultural change. Product processes and company culture are therefore interconnected and rely on each other to succeed. Becoming product-driven is a journey, one which unfolds over time. The Challenges of Product Culture.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 3] Growing Cross-Functional Collaboration. [4]

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2021

Like many companies, we practically learned overnight how to manage our business differently with the onset of the pandemic. We released several key product enhancements. Product organizations utilized these enhancements to help simplify the shipment of products. In the past year alone, the business doubled in size.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For product managers leading the execution of a product, working with an inattentive, context-switching development team is a struggle. This is why developing strong influencing skills is crucial for product managers. And getting a product to launch quickly in this competitive market is more important than ever.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

His students called these the two core truths of all existence i.e. emptiness and impermanence. 2500 years later, despite the aid of countless wise men and women explaining these apparently simple concepts, millions of us are still trying to make sense of them. We all know the driving license analogy. That’s when we could claim to be Agile.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

Many engineering managers first transition into their roles as former individual contributors. Many unique struggles emerge for these new managers not used to the particular responsibilities involved with managing people. But that is why we wrote this article!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When developing products, customer insight is vital to understanding the critical question: where are we going? Insights can help us better to understand our product and how it fits into the everyday lives of users — users who live in an age of abundance, where every product competes for a minute of attention. Alter the Egos.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

A mental model started to emerge as I was trying to represent the product manager role in a similar way to the Maslow hierarchy of needs for human beings. Its main merit is to represent product management role as something that is easy to explain visually. They all interact with your product.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

But delivering those services requires hundreds if not thousands of products. Regardless of their scale and scope, they’re all products with production schedules, marketing plans, sales teams, logistics specialists, and—in most cases—product managers. Who’s the customer for healthcare product managers?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2019

The surprising ways middle managers can drive innovation and product management. To learn about this, our guest is the Managing Director of the Cisco Innovation Centers, Alex Goryachev. He has a good cross-functional background for doing so, serving in senior roles in product development, marketing, finance, and sales.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Saeed Khan and I will be leading a pair of one-day workshops in Toronto and Kitchener/Waterloo — providing insights, frameworks and tools to help attendees create high-performing product management teams. Is your product team set up for success? Are you clear on how to lead a product team? Register here.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

A 2023 study by Asana found that 88% of product managers feel stressed often or all the time. You may be quicker to dismiss microstress than more macro forms of stress because you think you can just manage it in the moment. The thing is, your brain isn’t managing it, because your normal stress response didn’t fire.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In this article, we will discuss emoji as a global design, its role in communication, information transmission, and the meaning of emoji across cultures. Emoji is managed by Unicode in the U.S. Emoji, like character encodings, are managed by Unicode as a common language. Emoji originated in Japan. meaning graphic letters.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Product management roles offer opportunities for autonomy, creativity, and innovation. But how happy are product managers with product management today? We surveyed more than 2,500 product managers for our 2020 product management report. Product management is no exception.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 7, 2018

I speak/write incessantly about the importance of product managers talking directly with their users and buyers (collectively “customers”), not mediated through Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, User Experience, or stray notes posted to Salesforce. But this post isn’t about criticizing individual product managers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 26, 2020

Typically, promotions are doled out somewhat regularly and predictably for many roles. Yet this often isn’t the case for product managers. Why are product managers denied promotions? Product Manager Mistakes and Missteps Sabotaging Your Promotion. Include senior management in prioritization exercises.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Every product manager eventually gets an urgent customer reference request from a sales rep looking to help them win that key deal. An experienced product manager will know when to support the request and when—if absolutely necessary—to politely decline it. Issuing an RFP to the remaining vendors.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to attend a roundtable discussion for product leaders in London. But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. CEO vs Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. Who Are Product Leaders? We might call someone a Product Leader because… …it’s their job title.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles.

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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. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Identifying the right approach in product management can seem obscure, a bit like looking for sparks of fireworks through the fog. In product management there is always the opportunity to innovate, to do things differently, and to add a bit of your own special super power to turn chaos into order. Now let’s dive in.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2020

As a product leader, what qualities do you need to cultivate to be able to ensure your team performs to the best of its abilities? Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about teams – what is a team, team formation and development, cross-functional teams , and leading teams. So we need to trust them, and sometimes that is hard.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Since #mtpcon Singapore 2019 Mind the Product has been on a mission to support the continuing growth of the AsiaPac tech community. Throughout this week our content will be shining a light on product communities in the region, highlighting new voices, sharing untold product stories and learnings.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” There’s a lot that product managers dislike about their product management jobs. A quick silver-lining moment….

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in Product. Women in SaaS.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Despite all the political, social and ecological upheavals in 2019, it’s been a busy and successful year for Mind the Product, not to mention the evolving product management community we aim to support. One from the Product Leaders evening in Singapore. Product Podcasting. Hitting New Locations.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Product-oriented engineering teams do more than just write code. They’re more than just a feature factory; they’re co-owners of the product experience. Building and being a product-oriented team isn’t without its challenges. Product Oriented Engineering Teams from Amplitude. Don’t Get Siloed Off From Product and Design.

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