PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Partner with sales, business, and strategy leadership to set and attain targets that affect Uber’s bottom-line.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.  We need to reset our expectation that GTM will be fascinated by the minutiae of discovery, specs, tech debt, agile processes, internal code names (“Project Thor”), geographic failover, or performance metrics.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Exercise your value-based integrity as a model for the people you lead and serve. The post Modern Management Made Easy Principles—Again appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. (So people can trust you, their colleagues, and the organization as a whole.). Seek outcomes by optimizing for a greater goal. .

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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. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Mini-research means following agile and pragmatic research principles when time is limited and resources are scarce. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.   BTW, that must be paired with leadership-level cultural changes to reward thinking before action, and executive applause when we spend a little time/money to sidestep a major disaster.  We Enough preamble.  Here’s

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

So you can think of yourself as almost, like, a McKinsey or a BCG consultant that’s coming in and playing the role of the business strategist, trying to see around corners and anticipate what the market might want. So and it’s something that we needed leadership buy-in to do. ” Right? Their goals are different.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

The over-focus on Agile rituals such as Standups, Sprint Planning and Retros has meant that we have forgotten the commercial aspects of our role. Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. The core of our Product Manager roles is how value is exchanged. Shy away from taking initiative?

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

The last time I ran this tiny exercise, we collectively identified a few different kinds of stories, each needing its own treatment: [1] Highly technical, not much product management value. I’m deeply skeptical of best practices and consultant/trainer-provided frameworks and one-starting-point-fits-all.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. I need it therefore it must be easy and possible so why can’t you just… because we’re agile right. Watch the video below.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Elizabeth Grantham – Founder and Product Owner at TheOptimal.me – subscription exercise plans for mature women. I am now in the Product Team at Publicis Sapient and absolutely loving the Consultancy world. Publicis Sapient, for example, has a great Women’s Leadership Network (WLN). What is your background?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Start-ups have to be agile to survive. At that time, there were no systems in place to exercise the newly developed skills in day-to-day work. Barry O’Reilly, a principal at software design consultancy Thoughtworks, says: “Culture comes from the top. But just saying it, doesn’t make it so. Trumpeting “be bold!”

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

Overall it’s been a great communication tool, community building exercise, and it has helped us to bring transparency to the company. Other than executive leadership, no other part of the company is as focused on big-picture strategy like the product team. Agile Roadmap. Solicit feedback. ProductPlan Status. Contact Us.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" At the leadership level, I see a fundamental disconnect between the folks defining/building software products and the folks marketing/selling them: The "maker" side of the house defines prioritization as committing to fewer things in order to finish the most important ones. [B] "That's not how agile works."

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment. I break this down into: The distinction between overall engineering productivity and account-level responsiveness. Strategies for handling inevitable interrupts. Engineering Teams Focus On Overall Productivity.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And ultimately, what happens with the product that you’re maintaining that’s been around for a number of years is that you’re only improving it on the margins, you have to kind of launch a whole new version to really get in and like really exercise your skills. And we weren’t in that cycle with Basecamp at the time.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hope also does some leadership coaching with her own company, Fearless Product. ” There’s this tenet from the Agile Manifesto that’s really important, which is that each team owns the way they work and they’re constantly iterating on it to make it better. This is an extension again of that Agile mindset.

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