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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users.

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Understanding Enterprise Product Companies

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. What’s Enterprise? Business-to-consumer (B2C) targets individuals and families. Another fuzzy line divides SMB (small/medium businesses) from enterprises. Unstated B2C Assumptions. What’s B2B?

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. Yet it’s the first KPI proposed by many exec teams.

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Lying To Customers

Mironov Consulting

That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( B2B is lumpier than B2C.). Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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. When searching for a VP Engineering, they want someone who’s built a lot of software and managed development teams.