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Podcast: Modern Job Hunt - From PM to Product Director

Mironov Consulting

as well the language of development/design (process, analysis, technology) How director roles are different from individual contributors, and which might be the best fit for different folks How B2B/enterprise companies (and therefore product management) is different from B2C companies.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). become a professional services/custom consulting company.  It’s turtles all the way down.  So

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

My career started at Hewitt Associates which was a human capital and management consulting firm that operated 500 offices in 120 countries. We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team.

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Barry O’Reilly: Learning to Unlearn

Mind the Product

Most of Barry’s consulting work comes from Fortune 500 companies or from heavily funded scaling startups in San Francisco and around the globe. He’s coached executive teams at Capital One, International Airlines Group, HSBC, Google, and Amazon, to name a few. The success of Lean Enterprise gave him the impetus to set up on his own.

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All the Awesome Speakers for #mtpcon SF 2017

Mind the Product

Prior to this Dave ran product at Travelex and Moo.com, and spent 14 years at Microsoft in Seattle and in London product managing a wide variety of products including web browsers, developer tools, enterprise application integration (EAI) software, operating systems, online shopping and travel and web search.

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Understanding Enterprise Product Companies

Mironov Consulting

What’s Enterprise? Another fuzzy line divides SMB (small/medium businesses) from enterprises. Enterprise generally starts around $20k/year, and really gets going at $50k/year. . $50/year B2C, SMB and Enterprise companies not only behave differently, they are structured differently. What’s B2B?

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Let’s Fire a Few of Our Customers

Mironov Consulting

In the enterprise space, sales are lumpy and a couple of deals may represent most of this quarter’s new revenue. They could use our grammar checker to parse real-time conversations with airline pilots in order to identify training or security issues. More is better, and much more is much better. Up and to the right!