Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. The sooner you adopt these steps, the faster you’ll see growth.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Fewer women graduated with Computer Science degrees and fewer women applied for software jobs. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. What's so bad about that?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

This article is part of our series on Solutions Architect interviews. If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. 💡 Hey there!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, making software accessible is arguably a common struggle around the globe.

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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. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding. How to avoid: Recognize the value: market research is an investment, not an expense.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2018

For the past 6 months, I’ve been thinking a lot about pricing and packaging technology products. Failure to enforce the current process and blaming the sales teams. There’s much research to be found on pricing strategies, especially for SaaS products, so I won’t write about it here. Afraid to change the status quo.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that.

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

Expanding the team is not always the right answer to address scale and impact. Just as you wouldn’t expect to scale without a sales or marketing operations team, you can’t achieve the growth you dream of without a CS Operations team either. They are the driving force of any CS team. Team player. Why CS Ops?

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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. We are ready to help you with any design and research challenges you might have. . UX design and user experience research agency designing impactful digital products. If you need a reliable design partner now, contact us.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. To meet customer expectations for consumer-like software usability. To share data with partners.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Whether you’re working on a consumer app in Singapore, a SaaS product in San Francisco, or a challenger bank in London, we all struggle with the same challenges – and we can learn how to deal with them by coming together as a community. Mind the Platform. Brandon Chu on the challenges of managing platforms.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

As Steve Jobs once said: “ You have to start with customer experience and work your way back toward the technology, not the other way around. ”. What he really should have said was, “You have to start with measuring customer engagement and then work your way back toward the technology.”. But how do you measure it?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Plot summary.

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UX Studio

JULY 4, 2018

Disruptive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality radically change how we behave and interact with our world. As a consequence, they open up interesting new territories in UX research, too. VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article will examine negative personas, what makes them essential for SaaS businesses, and how you can build one. Talk with your sales and customer service teams to better understand your customer profiles. Userpilot helps you collect user data in-app and collect direct feedback from users via microsurveys.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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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? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine you would like to design a new mobile app interface in Berlin. We are ready to help you with any design and research challenges you might have. . 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. Phoenix Design.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Technology, including open source software, became integral in the effort towards social good. 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. Digital transformation moved from being a work-in-progress to the fast track.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

We KNOW that a good UI is based on research, testing and slow, methodical improvements – not looking at a competitor’s site and saying “ooh, that’s pretty, I’ll steal that!”. “Affordable, high-end aesthetics” Jane Portman, UI/UX Consultant, Conference Speaker and Author, UI Breakfast.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. What about systems administration?

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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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. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room. Finally it creates a scorecard looking at a variety of KPIs and prioritising teams’ time according to what most needs attention.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. Our app is now integrated with [Maps App X]”?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

Especially in B2C or B2B2C markets where our tech is part of a long value chain: perhaps our software helps some employee collect data to tune a service that improves delivery of some consumer product… Creating real-world value is a multi-step process involving many players. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. ” Jonathon: You mentioned earlier that good UX humanizes technology. Show up with an idea.

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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. RACI doesn’t work.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

The Vision as a Tool. Shoot bad ideas down early: “ That’s a great idea, but it doesn’t align to the outcomes of this product, so I am not putting it on the backlog at this time”. It’s simply not good enough to just feel or think that something is a good or a bad idea. Use the vision as a tool to avoid non-aligned work.

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