Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 7, 2019

Technology today has started to unfold around us to change our lives for good, and it’s vital for UX Designers to keep up-to-date with the latest digital trends in the industry. Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them? Fintech, Healthtech, Edtech – what sort of tech is used within them?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Excited about this finding, I started to apply for product manager jobs.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 12, 2019

Another challenge comes with the unique loyalty customers feel towards their financial institutions and banks. Inefficient customer service is one of the main reasons why customers leave their banks or financial tools. We wrote about their security features back in 2017 when this technology was emerging.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) Technical expertise. You need to work on a product.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 12, 2021

76% of all bank interactions are online nowadays, create remarkable digital customer experience are not just buzzwords. And George Labs is the digital banking business unit of Erste Group. The energy of the team is fueled by curiosity: how to make a banking app welcoming? Customer feedback during beta vs. production.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The idea of bringing ProductTank to Pune was to build a platform where people could share knowledge and grow together in the community of Product Managers. When I see aspiring Product Managers transitioning to product roles, it motivates me further. We do wish to have more female Product Managers on board.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What are the key differences in how they adopt products? Which of them are most useful for product managers of early products? The adopter categories divide consumers into groups depending on their readiness to use new products or innovations. Have you ever heard of the technology adoption curve ?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

The internet is rife with advice on how to become a Product Manager – often written by people who have never worked as a Product Manager themselves. Contents: Why is breaking into the Product Management career path difficult? Tips for becoming a Project Manager John Fontenot’s Path to Product.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. What was amazing about this opportunity is that I got to see lots of technical roles in that short time. And thus began my career in product management. But that's as specific as my passion was at the time.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Investors are incentivised to put their money anywhere other than a bank. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too. There are more technology jobs than ever before.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

  (And we’ll be speaking the language of money , not technical processes.) †† Here’s a scenario: You’re a product manager at an Enterprise software company and get a blizzard of incoming requests and demands and tickets and suggestions and ideas.  hours to install. 

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

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. I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. Bonus points for clarity.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

I might do a review of the product itself, to understand what’s happening. Such challenges arise because the management structure has failed to keep pace with the speed at which tech has moved. Joe contrasts this with high street banks, where staff typically have little autonomy.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Georgetown is generally considered a target school for investment banking, which means that most students have an interest in working on Wall Street, and Wall Street wants them. Apparently, working 100 hours a week creating discounted cash flows, formatting slide decks, and turning comments from your managing director pays extremely well.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

Why Should Product Management Take the Lead on Idea Management? Product management’s central role within the organization makes it a logical owner of idea management. Product managers already ingest, parse, and make sense of feedback from numerous channels , so it’s a natural fit.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The top projects worth mentioning are OTP bank mobile application testing, Microsoft Sharepoint benchmarking tool development, and mobile application creation for Starbucks Russia. UX studio is a young European product design company with an established thought leadership in the design communities. Its client portfolio is diverse too.

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The Review by First Round

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Our second episode is with Ayo Omojola, VP of Product at Carbon Health. Previously, he was the founding product manager on the banking team for Cash App at Square, where he co-created the Cash Card and helped build out Square’s technical banking infrastructure.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 12, 2020

You might decide that some meetings and group activity can be handled differently, such as commenting individually on docs instead of scheduling collective reviews. Can your company drop-ship tech or supplies? If you can, make extra time to review their work and coach them through tough assignments. Sound Byte.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

You'll be asked behaviorals in one way or another during every tech interview. Tell me about a time you faced technical and people challenges simultaneously. How do you sell an idea to senior management? What would you do if you were introduced to new technology and never used it before?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . UX studio is an established design agency helping companies worldwide design impactful digital experiences.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As one of the best digital design agencies, Basic offers an ample number of services, from strategy and brand experience to content and technology solutions. These design services include journey mapping, web design, content strategy , full-stack development, including CMS implementation, and technical consultation for complex projects.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Whether you’re working on a consumer app in Singapore, a SaaS product in San Francisco, or a challenger bank in London, we all struggle with the same challenges – and we can learn how to deal with them by coming together as a community. Brandon Chu on the challenges of managing platforms. Who are we solving it for?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs. For many organizations the solution is product management.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most challenging things about being a good Product Manager is the fact that we are often charged with the responsibility of making things happen without having any direct authority to “make” them happen. It’s not enough to just establish relationships. Understand your social capital. Give & take is the key. Conclusion.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Nick wondered if the description has developed and changed due to the varied backgrounds and career paths that many CPOs have, including Chris’s. He started in investment banking and later found himself in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). From finance and investment banking to product?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft. It’s a product unto itself. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. It can be incredibly insightful for early-stage companies to establish their positioning and product-market fit.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2018

Let’s look at some jobs that, like boredom during a commute, have stuck around for years, through hundreds of technological advances. People wanted to leave nice reviews, and tips for other travellers…. Making things people want involves understanding a longstanding human or business need and then using technology to: Remove steps.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. Hardware, software and mobile technologies have become cheaper and easier to deploy, enabling small and mid-size companies to have access to similar if not better technologies than the big boys. But this competitive advantage is small.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How is the increase in mobile use changing the landscape of the product management role, and what are the differences between traditional product management and mobile product management? In the world of mobile product management, interfaces are particularly prone to changes and redesign.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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