Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.    (And the 9000 things we won’t do.)  ” What To Do?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

The service lets customers manage their finances with their mobile phone. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. Be Faithful to Agile Principles. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again. Take Stock Regularly.

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Ask Benny

MAY 1, 2018

The list is usually endless, but the major ones are: Product strategyCompetitive analysisCustomer development and discoveryPricingUnderstanding customer needsPrioritizing developmentIdeation - defining specificationsExecutionUser experienceDocumentationLegalCostProduct evangelism. That was the big issue that was stopping my team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m currently a senior double majoring in Finance and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Growing up in rural Maryland and being the only child to two Asian immigrants meant that I had no idea what finance entailed. Joining the Modus Create Team.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. The team might work differently. What do you do?

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The list is usually endless, but the major ones are: Product strategy Competitive analysis Customer development and discovery Pricing Understanding customer needs Prioritizing development Ideation - defining specifications Execution User experience Documentation Legal Cost Product evangelism. You also need to say “no” a lot.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this is not a bad thing?—?being from customers and sales staff to teams of marketing, finance and engineering. To be a successful Product Manager, you’ll need to be the conduit between the business and technology teams by becoming the subject matter expert on the customer, the technology and the market.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. The manager’s role changes from control to serve the teams, so the teams can achieve their flow with technical excellence. Product owners manage a given team’s backlog. (If

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2017

David Binetti is a six-time entrepreneur, having served on the founding team of companies ranging from consumer (QFN, later Intuit’s Quicken.com), to industrial (Arch Rock, acquired by Cisco), to government (USA.gov, acquired by the Federal Government), to political (Votizen, acquired by Brigade) — with three stints as Founder/CEO.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2018

With no resources, no developers, no release cycle, no roadmap? The fact that a product is in sustain mode and has few or no developers assigned to it or no release cycle doesn’t mean that it is not a product. Did I need to add epics and user stories to a backlog if I had no resources to develop features from it?

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We call one application a modern application when it is built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, DevOps, DevSecOps, serverless operational models, and agile development processes that allow businesses to reduce risk and accelerate time to market. Not a bad deal, don’t you think? for every dollar spent.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

Ideally, with a great onboarding flow, when someone asks one of your customers what their favorite part of managing their finances is, they hold up their phone and say “the app I use.” Some ways to do that include: Using validations to prevent users from entering bad data. Don’t let your users make a mistake if you can help it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? What are the important things that flow from the product management group to development? Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. The company has 14 partners, and at any point in time, each one curates a separate project with its separate team. and Facebook.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Product Culture

APRIL 4, 2015

A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish and continuously update. It inspires buy-in from executives, inspires confidence from customers and salespeople, and inspires development teams to produce the groundbreaking products that drive significant growth.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

They are torn across seeking investors, continuing bootstrap and expanding the team. An early stage impact startup with zero resources, that developed a prototype product for 3 rd world countries, has been approached by a large global NGO to start a long and demanding process of collaboration. Not sure where to start. Start with Why.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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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. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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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  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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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. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? Now Things get Messy. Can users use it?

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. The following is a framework that I use (loosely based on the Scaled Agile Framework ) to help navigate the strategy maze and to stay focused on influencing the appropriate stakeholders.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

We’re just terrible at writing them; and, still, the development group wants more detail—and more and more and more. And developers have to make sense of the requirements. Developers then complain, “Don’t tell me how to do my job,” because the requirement now explains how the feature should be implemented. And they’re right.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. So the dumbest one: I show a development team on your left, including a product person. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to structure Product Management.

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Gainsight

JULY 20, 2022

What do Suicide Squad , Sex and the City , and Bad Boys II all have in common? Without real data from users, product teams are often flying blind as they try to deliver value to their users. How usage data helps Product teams. For the rapid, exploratory process of product development, product usage analysis is a suitable tool.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. That wasn’t my, I don’t know, I just got a degree in finance because I felt like I could I was good at it.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. These teams like to write about how they do design and hate to do music video–style showreels.

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