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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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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 This post lays out a related challenge: finding a scalable way for product management to support sales organizations rather than individual sales opportunities.  Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’  There’s something more systematic here.

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Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects

Mironov Consulting

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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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? If so, it’s probably a recommendation problem.

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Here are four good reasons to take idea management seriously.