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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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. They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Our Q2 FY22 letter to shareholders

Atlassian

All Atlassian’s ITSM competitors are monolithic solutions that start at half a million dollars and need an army of consultants to get started. Agile development. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. We needed something that would scale with us today.

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How to Set a Budget for Your Custom Software Project

Atomic Spin PM

This will give you a useful point of comparison when talking to outside developers. Developing with an Agile approach , and managing your budget through scope control. To clean up the dataset, I removed design-only engagements, maintenance work, and projects that were strictly consulting.