Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. The required minimum is bank cards and cash.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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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

APRIL 10, 2020

Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. The agile product team believes that if they keep on pushing small increments then everything will be okay. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. What does it take to manage the unlikely transformation in personal banking in rural parts of Africa? Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Lots of social stuff, banking, travel, local services, fitness, cooking, more than a few games, even apps made by governments. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? I use apps for everything from movies and music to weather and maps.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

Build your trust bank account with small victories: Build alliances and make deposits in your “trust bank account,” where your small victories will contribute to the stability of your relationships. Strengths/Weaknesses). Build your trust bank account with small victories. This is often called a “trust bank account.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Indeed startups are often launching with or driving the development of new technologies. I’ve always encouraged my product teams to focus on building products and experiences that are Valuable, Useable and Feasible (ever since I read the book ‘Inspired’ by Marty Cagan ). That’s where designing for emotion can play a part.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Wasted time on bug reproduction and fixes The software development process is lengthy. If you're in an agile development environment, you must move quickly to build a stellar product. Unfortunately, 20% of software development teams report getting stuck during the debugging or software testing phase.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2023

Beyond Bitcoin, it’s becoming evident that blockchain development applications are as diverse as the stars in the sky. It’s like Batman teaming up with Superman to save the day — each one’s strengths complementing the other’s weaknesses. This tag team ensures that data breaches become a thing of the past. Not anymore.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence. Say the yacht is nearing a sand bank that could possibly ground the keel. However, the higher-up, not knowing what the sailor knows, sees the sand bank and raises the alarm. workers cannot articulate their decision-making process because it involved gut-feel.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Anomaly detection is used to identify suspicious bank transactions or fake accounts. Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Or showing you your bank balance. Also, if a person is sitting there answering people’s calls about their bank balance eight hours a day, they would go out of their mind with boredom. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. To take Paul’s example, a bot that tells you your bank balance.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Reveal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Banking CRM Crypto Education Finance Healthcare Insurance IT Manufacturing Real Estate Retail Supply chain Telecommunications Security Logistics and delivery Marketing Airlines Hospitality Weather forecast Agriculture SaaS Government Sports. Banking : Deliver great benefits to customers and employees alike. See Reveal in Action.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” ” “Our Silver package is the best fit for mid-sized manufacturers using these two CAD/CAM systems…”) Sales teams love when we point them toward the right customers. Digging in: 1.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So   “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. Bonus points for clarity. Sound Byte. Clarity is free.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

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. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

TL;DR Customer onboarding in financial services aims to integrate users into systems and educate them about product features, for example, in the banking sector. For example: Banks use the onboarding process to help users get familiar with their mobile app or what to do if they lose their credit card. Let’s get started.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Bad facsimile credit: Myself Hi reader, Wait a sec, please don’t run away! So yeah, I’ve been working closely with developers for about 5 years now, without the aptitude of being able to (theoretically) join them, even for small/easy tasks. Even if you went through all the right prep work with your team?—?when and so on?—?later,

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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. We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

The importance of good user onboarding Given the variety of different fintech apps available, like banking apps, and trading platforms, convincing people to download yours is a challenge. Some ways to do that include: Using validations to prevent users from entering bad data. Don’t let your users make a mistake if you can help it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

As his Twitter bio reads, he quite likes “the beautiful mess of product development.”. Why does it matter for the business, for investors, for the community, or people on your team? Customer success, support, and sales teams can be great allies in providing good insights or helping make higher-quality decisions.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  When prospects say they need something, sales teams mostly take them at their word.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Key audiences to note during the e-prescription software development are the elderly, chronic disease, and bedridden patients. The cost of custom e-prescription software development is around $20,000 to $700,000 or more. The cost depends on the team, features, functionalities, and the time required to wrap up the development process.

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