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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Let’s Abandon Customers and Users

Mironov Consulting

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. Bonus points for clarity.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

That’s how I ended up moving from that job into an analytics job at a tech company in San Francisco. That was my first job in tech. However, we’ve had a great team. The product manager is not going to look at a screen and be like, “Aha, this is exactly what we need.”

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Implement This Customer Engagement Strategy and Your Users Will Not Get Enough of Your Product

Userpilot

As Steve Jobs once said: “ You have to start with customer experience and work your way back toward the technology, not the other way around. ”. What he really should have said was, “You have to start with measuring customer engagement and then work your way back toward the technology.”. Word of mouth in customer development calls.

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From The Soccer Pitch to The Product Roadmap: The Power Of Teamwork In Creating Outcomes

The Product Coalition

Creating Product Outcomes: What I’ve Learned From The Soccer Pitch “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Soccer is more than just a game for me. It’s become a lens through which I’ve come to view much of my life, including my work in product management.

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The Chocolate Cake Problem

Mironov Consulting

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  Almost every (non-engineer) CEO I talk with tells me that their development team needs to be much more productive – or is lazy – and their product managers are unresponsive or don’t understand the business.  I