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  Project teams that ship v1.0  Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. “Agile” as a way to do much more work in much less time. (NO! AI to take the place of humans in product development. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2020

Your team says they use Scrum in two-week iterations. You create another backlog of “technical debt” to address later. Clare was convinced her team didn't estimate well. Here's how Clare's team worked: Every person started their own story. See Who's Playing Agile Schedule Games? ). What can you do?

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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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.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. But that’s not all.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. And they’re right.

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

With the relentless pace of innovation using Lean software development, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of serverless technologies with a mantra of “NoOps.” Research has shown teams implementing modern DevOps practices are significantly higher performing than those who don’t. 5 times lower change failure rate.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. Consulting your symptoms with Google and finding out that you have one week left to live. What should be the KPIs for the data scientists’ teams? Should we be using agile methods?

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore. Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. It it at the intersection of customer, tech, and business which means that everyone function in an organization is impacted by the product. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you work alongside Bristol-based product strategy and UX consultant Joe Leech then chances are you’ll also work alongside his dog Little Dude. Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I might do a review of the product itself, to understand what’s happening.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run. In tech, things move so fast that a situation can easily move to unexpected corners. Levels of effort Finally, Levels of Effort should be consulted with engineers.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Alternatives like Userpilot or other agile digital adoption platforms come with the necessary elements needed to create a contextual, personalized user experience. That said, it's not that agile digital adoption platform as one might expect. The poor UI design may actually slow your team down. UserGuiding reviews.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many of the resources we have here at Exponent are dedicated to nailing your tech interviews so you can ultimately receive an offer. Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology). In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. He did, however, have a few gems.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . They become more effective when used together.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We have reviewed Berlin design studios’ competency, portfolios, and experience to define the best web design Berlin companies to work with. . As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients.

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DISQO

MARCH 6, 2020

Incumbent companies across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

You are supposed to coherently navigate the development, design, and marketing of a product. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run. Finally, Levels of Effort should be consulted with engineers.

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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. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. One major challenge is that your stakeholders DO NOT WANT the same things.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve done a half-dozen evaluations of product management teams at enterprise software firms. Engineering Teams Focus On Overall Productivity. Agile development teams think about productivity in terms of overall velocity metrics and backlog/roadmap commitment. Sales lives in a different world.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? The other thing they have in common is that they have, you know, chief design officers, they have a big research team, they really care about design. In the meantime, take it away, Alfonso… ?.

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