Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Weak Development Team Research Software Reporting Tools Development 134

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? These are generalities and we all know how bad generalities are at describing the skills of any one person. The more collaborative your team, the more everyone can gain both kinds of expertise.

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Weak Development Team Certifications Agile Customer Experience 80

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Engineering Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing 150

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? Deployments to production happened just hours before client demos. The team was not in the practice of estimating stories.

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Weak Development Team Software Review Technical Review Onboarding KPIs 149

Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales  There’s something more systematic here.

Information 98

Information Weak Development Team Reporting Tools Technical Review 98

The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. AI in education benefits students obtaining the course materials and listening to the subject demo anytime from anywhere.

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Artificial Inteligence Education Reporting Tools Feedback Software 194

Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Any help that involves the technical team. Whether it’s through developer’s docs, tweaking the code, or providing integration assistance. Some tips to provide proper end-user support include: Using AI marketing tools to reduce the team’s workload. Book a Userpilot demo today ! Product tutorials.

Data Visualization 86

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools 86

The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The bounce rate is the percentage of users who visit a page on your product (for example, your home page) and then leave it before taking any primary action, such as registration or starting a free demo. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging.

User Testing 112

User Testing Product Research Product Marketing Testing 112

Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

Without a portfolio strategist, the injury you’re most likely to sustain is an overabundance of disjointed one-off development projects to satisfy the next big sales opportunity or unhappy customer. The Body Part: Product Development. Don’t injure your team before they even take the field.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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Reporting Tools Software Review Technical Review Weak Development Team 133

Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Are all teams involved or is it just a select few with specialist expertise? Organizations with successful research democratization initiatives also benefit from improved collaboration between teams. Research teams may also be reluctant to train others not to compromise research results or out of fear of losing their positions.

Data Visualization 87

Data Visualization Research Software User Testing Product Research 87

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

In How to Predict When the Team Will Complete a Specific Backlog Item, Part 1 , I said there was no way to accurately predict an estimate for a specific backlog item more than a month away. By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. Here's the bad news. I needed to demo more often.

Data Visualization 76

Data Visualization Customer Experience Weak Development Team Roadmap 76

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work ”)  No one cares how big the team is, how long it took to build, or how smart our engineers and designers are.

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Reporting Tools Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software 80

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Demos are shown. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared.

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User Testing Customer Experience Weak Development Team Enterprise 137

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 23, 2024

Kyle has spent the past 14 years working with and advising top startups as a consultant at Simon-Kucher turned VC operating partner at OpenView. Audit the funnel looking for low-hanging fruit “When I came into Linktree, I worked with the team to audit the funnel, looking for low-hanging fruit. Develop a provocative point of view.

User Testing 87

User Testing Data Visualization Customer Feedback Customer Experience 87

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Book the demo!

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Technical Review User Testing Product Management Product Manager 82

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Teams have another lever. Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. Then, the team (or whomever) creates an architecture. Once the team has an idea about the architecture, the team starts working on the highest priority feature or feature set.

User Testing 111

User Testing Product Research Agile Feedback Loop 111

Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

Look for the people that are mentoring an intern, running a meeting, or organizing an initiative for the team. Product leaders should think about how to support and develop all product managers, without assuming they want to become people managers. If the manager is the best at everything then they don’t have a very strong team.

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Leadership Weak Development Team Consulting Technical Review 94

Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Product Research Reporting Tools Customer Feedback 40

Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

Research Software 40

Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools User Testing 40

The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

A prospect might be concerned that your company might go out of business, or that there won’t be enough skilled consultants to handle their implementation needs, just to give two examples. After all, a known bad (the current situation) is sometimes better than an unknown bad (a new application that doesn’t work).

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Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing Demo 95

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

Reporting Tools 118

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization Engineering 118

Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

There are five stages of the product life cycle: development, introduction, growth , maturity, and decline. Product life cycle marketing (PLC marketing) aligns the marketing efforts of a product with its stage of development. Book a demo to learn more! The development stage is the first stage in the product life cycle.

User Testing 90

User Testing Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software 90

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Do you lead with “Get Started,” “Request Demo” or “Sign Up”? The “ Jobs to be Done ” framework is a useful resource to help frame the context from their side of the fence.

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Feedback Software Research Software Startups Product Research 178

Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Seeing things in practice.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. How to build an onboarding team.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team. Segmentation features aren't very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer. The poor UI design may actually slow your team down. Professional.

Analytic Tools 86

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools Onboarding KPIs 86

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

Data Visualization 137

Data Visualization UX Analytic Tools Reporting Tools 137

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. Not only does each team have all the skills and capabilities it needs, but the product line has all the skills and capabilities it needs to manage the culture. It depends on how many feature sets and product teams the manager serves. What do you do?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Talk with your sales and customer service teams to better understand your customer profiles. Book a demo to learn more. So, negative buyer personas are more significant to the sales and marketing teams, whereas negative personas are more significant to product teams. Ask customer service teams for data insights.

Feedback Software 79

Feedback Software User Testing Research Software Data Visualization 79

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

User Testing 52

User Testing Onboarding KPIs User Friction Weak Development Team 52

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

A 9-18-month enterprise sales cycle with dozens of touch points (online, offline, demos, colleague referrals, golf outings) makes attribution of any one change very difficult. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” Digging in: 1.

Enterprise 105

Enterprise User Testing Data Visualization Product Research 105

Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Often, product management teams are trying to do too much. When I talk with executive teams, it’s clear what keeps them up at night. Selling more is a sales issue, and building is a development issue, and planning is somebody else’s problem. Walking back commitments the sales team made. I’m busy enough already.

Research Software 54

Research Software Product Research User Testing Reporting Tools 54

Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Remote & Cross-functional Product teams. While remote work has made the lives of cross-functional product teams a bit more challenging according to Aditi Gupta, the trend is here to stay with fewer conflicts between departments and faster turnarounds. In 2020, several new features and UI improvements kept our developers busy.

Analytic Tools 122

Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization Product Research 122

Userpilot

MAY 14, 2021

They make a good impression on your customer, and the insights gathered, if filed correctly, can be useful for your product and marketing teams. Don’t ask customers a question that they’ll have to consult a team member about before answering. What steps over your career have ultimately led you to our product? What did you like?

Onboarding KPIs 52

Onboarding KPIs Feedback Software Product Research Data Visualization 52

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Back when I decided to start a training and consulting company, I thought to myself, what is my perspective on product management? Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I Ah, the perennial question.

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Product Research User Testing Research Software Customer Experience 97