Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. ” But we need good results, not just less work for me. .”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. I’m exaggerating, of course.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation. So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. What does the product mean to you?” Problem solved, or so I thought.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone.

User Testing 177

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. In this article, we’ll uncover the common branding mistakes that have haunted both enterprises and small ventures. Budget constraints: Small businesses often operate on shoestring budgets.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So  After all, we're smarter than other teams.    Once we start, we incrementally discover the next issue or dependency or complexity. and then the next.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  We could conceivably do this by raising prices; opening new geographic markets; expanding the current product line; building and launching a new e-commerce business alongside our enterprise CRM business; getting the ticket concession for Taylor Swift’s next tour; or inventing cold fusion to save the planet. ” What To Do?

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Enterprises and employees have had to adjust to new realities, both professionally and personally. To get a sense of where these opportunities may lie, we asked our executive team to share five predictions on trends that will impact businesses in 2021. Open source projects will move into the enterprise.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of specials and “small requirements.”    The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Far away.    Hard to see. 

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. This means that product managers are thrust into developing a product or service concept they had no part in creating. A product manager is the leader and glue for the development team, from concept to launch.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators. Should the organization work with an outside consulting company (e.g. low-cost design centers in India, Vietnam, Ukraine).

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products such as Monument Valley, and pursuing venture-based ”ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products.”

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. As a design agency that works with NYC companies , we have developed an effective remote collaboration process that helps us stay in touch with our partners despite time zone differences. Is there anything we can help you with?

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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.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. During this stage, consultants discover what technologies are in play, how processes are implemented, and who is responsible for owning each of the platforms.

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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. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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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.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting. Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list.

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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.

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BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

From the production of Red Dead Redemption 2 to the Adidas Yeezys, Product Managers (PMs) are an increasingly important component to the product development process, acting as the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements. ”. Know Your Industry and Develop a Diverse Skill Set.

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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. There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. Why do prospects have objections?

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

Research Software 52

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

At UX studio, we work with rising startups and established enterprises worldwide. As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Message us through our contact form to book a free consultation with our experts.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Written Methods.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes. Measuring more than profit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

The goal of strategy is to ensure that your enterprise can anticipate trends intelligently and to reduce complexity to drive focus to better ride the dynamic waves of change, which are mainly driven by rivalry and customer behavior and perceptions. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 9, 2019

To quantify the shift in the digital era, Gainsight commissioned Forrester Consulting to take a closer look at what they’ve dubbed “the age of the customer” and how today’s digital business climate has elevated customer success to a mission-critical growth function. What are the actual figures around these trends?

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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. or doing nothing, is usually the main competitor faced by enterprise sales-people.). Iterate the product based on feedback. What alternatives exist in terms of solving their need?

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. Documenting, storing and sharing user research badly, often means new teams have to start from the beginning every time.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. This is more likely to work for a mobile app for consumers than for a desktop application for enterprise. In other words, consider new features to be a bad idea until your organization has researched the need for them and validated that the users will need them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. For example: O: Become a leader in the enterprise KR: Launch v2.2 Teams of 4 people try to commit to 6 OKR clusters each with 4–5 key results. Ambitious?—?pushing

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