Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. No one starts out with strong Product Judgment. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Janna starts by looking at some of the roles she’s had and the lenses they required; as a product manager she would ask, “what problem are you trying to solve?”, ” Janna still finds she asks, and is asked about, the same thing whether she’s consulting, training, mentoring, or as a CEO. Ditch the Roadmap.

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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.    “ How hard could it be? 

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. 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? THE CAUSE.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps. On the other hand, outcome-driven roadmaps are very different.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are For me, this is similar to the core product prioritization problem: an infinite set of demands that each individual requestor considers to be extremely important/urgent. But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. That’s not a roadmap; that’s a release plan. ?.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Why is such a seemingly non-essential topic critical to your product’s success? 5 Things About Product Security You Should Be Aware Of.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap.

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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.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Do you lead a new product management team? Make it easy to start a business, protect our persons and property from harm, provide ways to get products from point a to point b (ie., What is the role of senior leadership, particularly the head of product management? And how do new products get to the market?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product management is one of the least-defined roles in the professional world. But you can identify many of the skills and habits you’ll need to be effective in this career by learning from other successful product managers (PM). As a product manager, your job is to solve problems for your users.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Roadmaps are shared. B2B is lumpier than B2C.).

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. That was my first real product management role.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. 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.) Here’s why…. What To Do?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Your first 90 days as a product manager can feel overwhelming. But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? But what should you do in your first 30, 60, or 90 days as a product manager to set you up for success? Talk to Users & Customers ??

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. PM roles vary a lot.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

But what are the skills every product manager must know? Beyond some core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets: The primary competencies of Product Management. Some roles require an MBA or relevant business/consulting experience. PM roles vary a lot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. So your product serves the existing customers (who keep wanting more stuff), but perhaps new customers are not coming as smoothly. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

On the show, Paul will be talking about discipline in product and good habits that are needed with completing roadmaps. Reaching a product goal and accelerating a company’s success is not possible unless everyone from all teams, including engineers, marketers, sales, support, etc. About the Episode. Episode Information.

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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. How does this affect the world of Product Management?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. So, as process-oriented professionals, we product managers look to the structure and predictability of a scientific approach for certainty. The desired outcomes and how to guide the team towards them.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Design Disputes.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Within these organizations exist hundreds, perhaps thousands of dedicated product managers. But the product manager is often mistaken for the "project manager." One fosters an "IT mindset," while the other fosters a "Product mindset." Because product managers work at the intersection of many roles?—?marketing,

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In our 2021 State of Product Management report , 97% of senior leaders said being strategic is the most important thing for their organization’s success. Time Management. Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? Net Promoter Score is the result of a one-question survey asking the users how likely they’d be to recommend your product on a scale from 1 to 10. Table of Contents.

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