Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led development.   The result is frustrated product/engineering teams, uninspiring products, low profitability, slow growth and difficulty getting follow-on investment.

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Modus Create

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s been 30 years since the creation of the agile manifesto. And yet, agile remains misunderstood by the vast majority. . That’s what happened with lean and what’s happening with agile. . Agile Has Gone Mainstream. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects.

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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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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." We still haven't quite gotten down "outcomes over outputs" yet, but it's moving in a better direction. -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? As more enterprises turn digital, this will become a stronger need for them.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. UPMC Enterprises Provides Deep Insight Into Product Management. I realized that I wanted to expand my focus into product management.”.

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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. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. .” Seeing things in practice.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

38% of large enterprises plan to spend over $1 million on digital initiatives in 2022. After being disrupted by nimble, agile players for decades, large enterprises are fighting back with significant investments in digital initiatives. 41% of large enterprises will invest in IT modernization in 2022.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Dave West of Scrum.org Welcome to the Agile Movers & Shakers interview series. Prior to joining Scrum.org, Dave West was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering, and architecture. What brought you to ‘agile?’ “So

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Today’s agile methodology demands speed and agility in all phases of software development – including testing. Risk of QA failure in the agile workspace. Are your QA testers up to speed?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Lastly, to make the most out of this framework, it’s best if your organization has already implemented some variation of the Agile Methodology. Epics and User Stories, on the other hand, should be concrete features or tasks that are useful when explaining and assigning work to designers or engineers. Ions Engine. Enough talking.

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Split

MAY 31, 2022

When teams embrace testing, they’re more innovative, agile and in sync with ever-changing customer needs. Yet even if they understand the value of experimentation, some enterprises hold back because of some common concerns. Experimentation also reduces risk, because teams know how the product will be received before it’s rolled out.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Well, before, product knew what was going on and engineering didn’t.” and one engineer in Iceland. And what can I do about it?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. The role of the Product Owner is mainly characterized by agile frameworks, especially Scrum. This itself might not be surprising!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

In this post, an enterprise (IBM) and a consumer (Google) product manager describe a typical day in their life on the job. In the define stage, you are planning the MVP by sharing your vision with your engineering and product design counterparts. A day in the life of Kevin Wei, an enterprise product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales   Aggregate outcomes.  Total

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Agile development boosts incremental change and continuous improvement in the development and deployment processes.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Engineers love to crank out code. The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Agile has put the focus of the software development process squarely on the sole process of writing and delivering code.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

It goes without saying that to survive in the current market, small businesses and large enterprises may need a helping hand of a reliable software developer. Fireart software engineers are highly skilled in Angular, React, Node, Vue, and other Javascript frameworks. El Passion Min. project size: $5,000+ Hourly rates: $50?—?$99

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  We could conceivably do this by raising prices; opening new geographic markets; expanding the current product line; building and launching a new e-commerce business alongside our enterprise CRM business; getting the ticket concession for Taylor Swift’s next tour; or inventing cold fusion to save the planet.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows. Whether its a fully-functional enterprise solution you’re after, or a team to craft custom native Android and iOS apps, Rentech can help.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Unify data and simplify partner integrations with enterprise-class security and reliability. Combining the two platforms enables app providers to move with the speed and agility to meet the needs of their customers, while still maintaining the security and control required for regulatory concerns. Apptentive.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Skills That May Get Lost in Translation: Enterprise Architects. Facilitation.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  Which makes us want to sit them down for yet another 2-hour lecture on limited capacity, agile, the need for validation, technical debt, architecture, or the physics of building software. But we reframed this into the need for empathy and a deeper understanding of what’s actually important to our GTM colleagues.  

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  My focus is on B2B/enterprise companies where sales cycles are long; attributing revenue to individual product improvements is challenging; and a few large deals have visibility up to the Board.    Let’s get a couple of your best thinkers together with a couple of product/engineering leads for some brainstorming. 

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 5, 2019

Forty-nine percent ( 49%) of product managers said this is their biggest challenge, and when responses are added from enterprise software PMs, this figure jumps up to 62%. That means nearly two-thirds of enterprise product leaders are currently worrying about which product features are needed.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Enterprises such as Qualcomm and Cisco lost some portion of their market share, while Amazon and eBay had declines in their company valuations. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time. Quarterly U.S.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is central to the lean / agile methodology Get feedback as soon as possible. That quote might sound odd to a developer of elevators, motorcycle brakes, jet engines, or a hospital communication tool. Most startups I see are disciples of the Lean approach, my own included. What is natural to users?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups. If you’re overseeing 52 developers and 4 product managers, your attention is mostly on engineering issues rather than product issues.

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Revulytics

JULY 19, 2017

As part of a list of summer reading recommendations for marketers recently published by Forbes, Juniper Networks CMO Mike Marcellin named “Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative” as his pick. Let’s take a look at how software usage analytics can help advance these agile goals.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Reviewing product strategy to design a growth engine for established business is a common ask of product leadership, although few businesses achieve it. This post shows you where do you start so you can design powerful and successful growth engines? Flexibility and Agility, how vulnerable are you to a "new game"?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems. I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See Horribly wasteful and frustrating!  At

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

These predictions spanned various areas of business: from marketing, engineering, and recruitment to company culture. This means that to be successful in the digital age, consulting firms need not just analysts but engineers, designers, and other technologists. Enterprises Will Embrace Open Source Projects.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It was also a key transition point for Barry and the start of his shift to product management: he learned about agile and experimentation and that he wanted to focus more on “what to build, not on how to build it”. After this, he moved to London to join Thoughtworks, because he “wanted to work with really great engineering people”.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As we scale, we’re working with larger mid-market and enterprise customers with more complex needs and specifications. Shipping is our heartbeat ” has been the motto of the Intercom R&D org from the very beginning and engineers ship code to our customer-facing production app dozens of times a day. Intercom is no exception.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2021

Engineering Facing and High Abstraction Interface with Engineering?—?Internal Internal &External Stakeholders A PM whose role is engineering facing but also at high abstraction w.r.t. Engineering Facing and low abstraction A product owner The PM’s in this role are generally Product Owners. Story writing(Epics?—?Focusing

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