Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product features.  Commitments

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. Too often, I see very predictable roadmaps for managers. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps. More on that later in this post.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? When does it make sense to ask for more feedback instead? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? Let's start with the need for very fast product feedback.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging. After all, product managers have different duties and tasks depending on their organization and industry. Let’s dive right in.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

We asked product managers, design leads, and research leads to understand why they opt for agency designers and researchers over in-house staff. In this article, we collected the patterns in their motivations combined with our user research and responses in product design-related Slack groups.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

How can you prevent an overstuffed backlog, roadmap, or all those great ideas from interrupting your team from finishing its work? Instead of backlog or roadmap, start to call these ideas “options.” Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. But what about the future?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To help you with this, we compiled a list of the top mobile in-app feedback tools of 2022. Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Mobile in-app feedback tools & solutions.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

However, the more often we deliver in short feedback loops, the more often we can make strategic decisions. Finishing a story creates a new decision point, for both the product and the corporate strategy. The more often we iterate strategically, the more we exhibit business agility. Here's an example. You can change.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Show them your feedback loops and your cycle time.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

TL; DR: The Cargo Cult Agile Checklist for Download You want to know the state of agility in your organization? It will only take 5 minutes of their time–and then analyze their feedback. If the average number of checkboxes marked is higher than nine, then you are probably practicing cargo cult agile in one form or another.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. The shorter the feedback loop, the faster and more often we can learn. See the post about Double-Loop Learning.)

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback. Those actions show that managers change their actions in the face of new information or feedback.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. I suspect their teams hide their feedback loops. If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation. As for the date?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What Is Your Product? “So, So, what is your product?” That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. In my product coaching work, I have come to realize that many organizations don’t have a clear and consistent answer to this fundamental question. This has serious consequences.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? In this post, I’ll go into the responsibilities for each of the four ‘flavours’ of product manager.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I spend much of my time coaching product leaders : folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product teams. I also step into companies as an interim VP Product Management. So I have strongly held personal opinions about what’s on the minds of other product leaders.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 7, 2022

But without a plan, research, test, and validation you might waste energy and money on developing something that’s not appealing to anyone. Building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is the first and most crucial step of creating a new digital platform. Book a consultation with us and let’s discuss your goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Use statistics to quantify the impact.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self So what exactly is product strategy? Why is it important if I have a solid product management team?” Questions were my business as a consultant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. Enter GIST.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 13, 2022

In Part 1 , I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. But, depending on where your product is in the market, your customers might want or need different information. One thing to remember: you might not need a customer-facing roadmap at all if you release often enough. Let's start there.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  The context: like this recent post , my coachee and I were talking about every product leader’s frustration that our go-to-market-side partners (GTM) and stakeholders have rampant “roadmap amnesia” and assume their next request is easy and are always trying to push 100 pounds more into our 5-pound R&D process.  

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. In reality, they end up with outcomes that fall short of expectations.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. For agile at scale, I don’t believe this is true.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Work with marketing and sales.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

There are many methodologies for feature prioritization in product management. If you are a product manager dealing with this, beware that one size doesn’t fit all. Choosing the right feature for the stage of development your product is in can unlock enhanced market performance. . An Overview of Product Enhancement Requests.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. That allows me the most flexibility in my product development. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. I use that feedback to build more MVPs.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Now.   The PdM equivalent of mansplaining.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager. Let’s dig in!

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