Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. It’s a performance study comparing factors of product teams that excel versus those that struggle.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. What to do? [1]

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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. Product managers are often called in late in the selling cycle to address specific customer demands/requests or to position our product against competitors. Why Does It Matter? Our word is our bond.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. Here are my best tips.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this BoS Talk April shows you how important positioning is to your product and how you can be doing yourself a great injustice just by positioning incorrectly. April Dunford (Founder/CEO, Ambient Strategy) – Positioning for Growth: How To Make Complex Products Obviously Awesome from Business of Software Conference.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

We formulated a dedicated team consisting of three researchers and three designers. While some team members immersed themselves in articles and courses, others extensively tested AI tools within the given timeframe. Read on to get a sneak peek at our research team’s conclusions. Don’t think that AI is smarter than you.

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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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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

We’ve relearned over the last few years that products can have unintended side effects, and that bad actors can misuse good products. As product professionals, we’re often not taking time to anticipate bad outcomes. A conceptual checklist might include: How might bad actors exploit our tool / platform / product / service?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 23, 2024

PMs and VPs), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!). 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.

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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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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Major Takeaways: You can’t help others if you’re not in a position to help yourself. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step.

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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. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. For example?—?you’ve

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide. Apart from helping clients with product design, we also develop digital products in-house.

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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?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. 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.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. And I usually start with a good idea train. Watch the video below.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

Product managers are generally considered to be valuable members of the product team who work on the product development definition and we can have a direct impact on the bottom line of the product project that we are involved in. Was I a bad person? The New Product Manager Job. For a year and a half.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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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.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To solve this, companies today are turning to customer success training, guided by the logic that well-versed customers who take full advantage of your product will also be more successful. In short, customer training leads to customer retention. In short, customer training leads to customer retention.

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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. As an expert design agency, we offer product design, and user experience research services, UX consulting, and customized solutions to address our clients’ challenges.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Melanie Franklin is a change management consultant and trainer. Rubin is a Certified Scrum Trainer who’s trained over 18,000 people on agile and scrum. By Melanie Franklin.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

User expectations and pressure on companies have increased: they must be present in multiple channels, generate personalized content and positive user experiences in each of these channels. This also includes launching a process of continuous testing and training: most companies launch 3 to 5 A/B tests and multivariant tests every month.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. It depends on how many feature sets and product teams the manager serves.

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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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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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