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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. have irreconcilable definitions of MVP.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So  And the next.  But

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Creating a Product Launch Training Program

ProductPlan

But unlike the ghosts of baseball players, your customers aren’t going to show up just because your product exists. Marketing needs to know the value of the new product. The first internal group to train is marketing. They’re on the hook to generate qualified leads for the new product. Provide accurate pricing estimates.

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Creating a Product Launch Training Program

ProductPlan

But unlike the ghosts of baseball players, your customers aren’t going to show up just because your product exists. Marketing needs to know the value of the new product. The first internal group to train is marketing. They’re on the hook to generate qualified leads for the new product. Provide accurate pricing estimates.

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Guide to Choosing the Best Customer Education Platform for SaaS

Userpilot

Customer education is the process of teaching customers how to efficiently use your product to attain their specific goals. Benefits of customer training software: Improved customer experience and customer satisfaction, better onboarding , reduced time to value , increased customer engagement , etc. Faster product adoption.

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Correlation vs. Causation in Customer Success

Gainsight

As in the drug industry, CS teams could run an A/B test. They could perfectly separate out a set of accounts upon which to test an intervention (e.g., For example, you couldn’t have the test group be the customers who wanted to engage with a CSM (since those might be more likely to stay anyways).