Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! Then, we have monthly reviews of what we’re shipping and reflect on whether we’re hitting our goals. Communication.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

At every Business of Software Conference we record all the speakers’ presentations so that you can learn from the array of talks on offer to our attendees. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and more – don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts recommending us to the world! Upcoming Events.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. When I first started my consulting practice, I had this goal in mind, but I had no idea how I would reach it. My personal roadmap looks like this: Now.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. We had terminology replacements drafted and people with an appetite to make changes. Share the work.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

Are you looking for customer feedback software for your SaaS business? What is Customer Feedback Software? Why is Having Customer Feedback Software Important? Customer feedback software is an essential tool in the arsenal of SaaS businesses for keeping track of user sentiment. What is customer feedback software?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This software development methodology is still in its infancy when it comes to our understanding of which teams should be embracing it and which should be shunning it. The core concepts of Agile were originally defined by a small group of software developers who had mixed experiences with traditional working processes.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  The context: like this recent post , my coachee and I were talking about every product leader’s frustration that our go-to-market-side partners (GTM) and stakeholders have rampant “roadmap amnesia” and assume their next request is easy and are always trying to push 100 pounds more into our 5-pound R&D process. 

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.  Custom code will work in perpetuity (since no one has ongoing support responsibility).  Doing honest discovery with a dozen similar customers takes weeks.  Enterprise

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.    Probably only 10 lines of code. roadmap updates from Product. 

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One   Engineering-grade testing and code re-use are often discussed but almost never put in place.  And

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2019

Reliable – business critical software can’t have features with bugs that go unresolved for years. Usable – you can’t build features with no cohesive vision that need layers of solution consultants to walk every new customer through them. At Intercom we take inputs into the product roadmap written in the form of a “problem.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

project managers or SMEs guiding roadmaps) A Product Development Health Check can help identify issues in your product development practice, find the underlying causes and give you ideas about how to address them. Things like code reviews, source code control, automated testing and shared code style guides are all important basic practices.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

Handover is a crucial process in the software lifecycle, and it may turn out to be costly and harsh unless you take the appropriate precautionary steps to make it smooth and downtime-free. The following article answer the question how to transfer software development works to another programming team. Then, a solid plan comes in handy?

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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Product Talk

APRIL 11, 2018

” Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. Writing code is a perfectly valid way to learn, if it’s the fastest way to learn. The key with discovery is speed of learning, not speed of writing code. If writing code helps us learn faster, by all means do it. Tweet This.

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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. Just sign here.”)

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Code Spaces had to shutter their doors after they had massive amounts of data wiped out due to a hack, and more often than not , small businesses go under after major cyber attacks. In the go-go environment of Agile , continuous delivery , and SaaS, code is getting cranked out and deployed faster than ever. Patches and updates.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Encouraging referrals and reviews to expand word-of-mouth. Implement the customer success best practices with Userpilot code-free. Survey your users, review your support tickets, and examine your usage data to see what’s causing friction and pushing customers away. Inviting users to leave a review on G2.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

Believe it or not, there used to be a thing called on-premise software that you have to install and upgrade yourself. In this ultimate guide to SaaS product management, we'll walk you through the benefits of SaaS over on-premise software and how you can build a successful product as a SaaS PM. And you had to own all the servers.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Rich Mironov, CEO/Founder, Mironov Consulting. Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. . Enhance your team’s capabilities with connected integrations.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meet Ellen Juhlin , a product coach and consultant and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. Because it was a permanent install, we also became a beta test site for new software updates, so I was filing bug reports and giving feedback and opinions about the software.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. The team also agreed to initiate a weekly meeting to review and clarify requirements and to estimate the user stories. Long standups.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. To make an informed decision before you invest in the software, it's essential to understand the benefits and drawbacks of UserGuiding: Pros. UserGuiding reviews. Let's take a closer look at some of the user reviews that their customers posted online.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  In scope means that they own the decision/action, but might consult others.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.  I try to frame this as either in scope or out of scope for their particular role. 

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is, of course, a subjective observation which comes from interacting with many organisations as a product consultant. Consider the name of a key artefact that product managers own: the roadmap. The roadmap literally explains “we are here” and “next we will be there, and then there”. Connection. .”

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond. He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1  As leadership teams, we’re all guilty of recency bias, roadmap amnesia, failure to measure actual outcomes, magical thinking, and blame-heavy interrogations that discourage admitting failure.  We

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. He was leaning towards option B, but wanted to consult. If they are hard-coded, it’s easy to block them from being deleted. Point 1 for hard coding the event types. What possible changes, if any, will you want to discuss with dev?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Years later, as a consultant at Modus Create, I started noticing how frequently companies of all sizes were facing similar challenges, even in 2020 when agile is supposed to be the norm. Very frequently the timely delivery of quality software misses deadlines or the quality of releases impacts service performance.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company hires a fancy management consulting firm to help them “optimize” operations, one of the first things they’ll do is document how things are currently being done. It’s useful in the product development context many of us live and breathe every day, including product roadmapping. Gap analysis.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Our experts predict there will be a lot more automation of low-level tasks, to compensate for the reduced workforce in tech companies due to the layoffs. The result – we will see emergence of some really cool, disruptive products, sometimes even entirely new genres of software and hardware. Product Resolutions 2023.

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