Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Stating a list of wholesome qualities is easy, of course. 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. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It was kind of the luck of the draw.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Be sure to check out our PM courses to get ahead of your competitors and stay on top of product management. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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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.  Of course, your organization may look/behave very differently. 

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 4 Keep it Simple.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

I applied, of course, for one of the 50 seats they allocated and was so excited to hear that I was accepted. for good and bad. They are not even Amazon and Google which were born as tech product companies and are now large corporates (that have major product centers in Israel as well).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. Of course, customer goals are important, but your roadmap must also incorporate goals from the company. You need both.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and Scrum is not designed for bean counters, although some metrics help understand a Scrum Team’s health.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. This is a classic leadership trap that many leaders (not just CEOs) often fall into.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. On-site On-site interviews also vary, but they follow a predictable structure.

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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. I’m exaggerating, of course.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

However, a PM career looks different than other roles in tech. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. How to Become a Product Manager: The Ultimate Career Path Guide Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This career path is great for those who are technically inclined, but who also love people, processes, and project management. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. Of course, a list of questions isn't necessarily helpful on its own. All of this is exciting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See 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.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Here is a detailed template for developing your business strategy. All of these factors impact your ICP.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then have a section on product leadership, which is important for all product managers, but especially for senior folks looking to advance in their career. I've found the best way for a product manager to learn to develop a vision is to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling product visions as inspiration for your own.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. Over the course of her long tech career she has worked at Yahoo! So what about high-performing teams? High-Performing Teams.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Value Proposition.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Here's a list of questions we've seen most frequently asked at tech companies. Watch our answer here.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. Product Management is a leadership role which is difficult to ‘start small’. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? What job titles do you use?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

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. Typically you’ll interview for 3-5 hours total with a lunch break midway through.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Check out our complete Data Science Interview Prep Course.  Data Science Interview Course Worried about data science interview questions? Practice common data science questions in this course. Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). Of course, the 2020-2021 conference circuit looks very different from a typical cycle — many events have been postponed or gone completely virtual during the pandemic.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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