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  CRMs need to manage identically named people and handle multi-tiered organizations owned by other multi-tiered organizations.  The " issues.  CRMs

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

Sure, the naming is different, but core issues are the same — injection, cryptographic failures, broken access controls, security misconfiguration, etc. The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security?

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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. 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. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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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. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the required skill level is not clear, it’s often also not clear what and how to test when interviewing a potential hire. My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. Can it meet the requirements? Is it a “good” structure?

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

” The tester said, “If the developers didn't put so many problems in, we'd be done by now.” ” The developer said, “If you didn't pressure me so much, I could have done a better job.” That's because product development is a system of work. Years ago, I wrote The Influential Test Manager.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Test your assumptions, always. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2018

RACI matrix is dead because it doesn’t help in modern product development and doesn’t reflect the realities of how software is built nowadays. If you rely on a RACI matrix, this probably indicates some serious issues within organisation of your software product team. Well, the team does the work. Let me break it down.

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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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Which levers does your team need to manage risk in your project? And, teams can combine any of these options in their own iterative and incremental lifecycle. An agile approach requires a change in culture at the team level, at the portfolio level, and in management. Notice what occurs: Some people prepare the work for a team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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. Besides, we help startups create their digital experiences, like Xeropan, a language learning app, or Zignaly, a crypto trading platform, just to name a few. . Goodpatch .

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Ethics: The discipline of dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation Miriam-Webster Dictionary. The medical profession was the first on record with “formula comitis archiatrorum” – a statement that required physicians to widen and deepen their knowledge through consulting with other physicians.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2019

How to generate more innovation every day As I consider starting my own business doing what I would call “software innovation management consulting” I can’t help but notice that I’m far from alone. So why so much activity in the innovation management consulting space? There are a bunch of ways teams deal with this point in time.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Andrew and his co-founder and team have created a way for their customers to design engagement rings, experience their design in their home with a mock-up ring, tweak what they want, and then receive their one-of-a-kind custom ring. We do a 30-minute video design consultation and then send them a technical sketch of the ring.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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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. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. You might be testing a new feature with a subset of your users, as Facebook frequently does in their experiments. Or “We saw that you look at a lot of [Metro stations] when you use [Our App Name Here]. Continuous integration in deployment can involve feature flagging.

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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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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Google hiring managers give an extensive overview of their hiring practices in their document aptly named " How We Hire ," packed with tons of actionable advice. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

If you are “doing prioritization”, that simply means you have too much you are trying to tackle, you are wasting time trimming down those ideas, and you are probably doing this in a series of internal discussions, i.e., you are not leveraging user testing to make evidence-based decisions to drive toward more innovative solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We talk to Katja Muradyan , an Exponent alumnus, on her journey to breaking into product management from a consulting background and her experiences building various products in Europe. I’m Katja and I’m currently working as a PM on the Wear OS team at Google. That does not make you a bad candidate. Have you heard of these?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

You should be basing your customer engagement on that activity to gain insights and develop strategies to increase that engagement. Word of mouth in customer development calls. Investing efforts in the customer success team to make sure we have a base of highly engaged customers. Book a free consultation today.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. We were a very successful company for a very short time in the late ’90s, and after we shut down, I was a solo consultant for better part of a decade, and I did some more writing. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

They are torn across seeking investors, continuing bootstrap and expanding the team. An early stage impact startup with zero resources, that developed a prototype product for 3 rd world countries, has been approached by a large global NGO to start a long and demanding process of collaboration. Not sure where to start. Start with Why.

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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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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Our user experience professionals have already analyzed the expertise of dozens of design agencies in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, to name a few. He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. We use multiple tools to keep in touch with our clients.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?” Image by EBG Consulting The Five Principles There are five principles that can help you to define your product: 1.

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