Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days. Transition to a new company.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Getting groups of stakeholders to “buy” the roadmap includes answering their unspoken questions. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. 17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. ” #23 What is Good Product Strategy?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. I couldn’t fathom why not, especially since these problems would then be addressed months later, with similar strategies as I proposed but driven by somebody else.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution. Aligning with engineering: Depending on the enterprise tech strategy, the direction we take on the design system asset build may change.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. Don't miss out - sign up now: Transcript.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

A senior product manager does the same thing as a product manager but has a senior title either in recognition of their contributions, the relative importance of their product, or to reflect the fact that they also spend time mentoring more junior product managers. Product Director / Group Product Manager. VP Product / Head of Product.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. A lot of the companies that we were working with said gala got a Gala Group before they joined to Coral and our big owners were LeisureLink. Everybody needs to have a strategy.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” ” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem. Where did the moms go?

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. If they could only set a target for what was really important and start measuring against and try different strategies for accomplishing that?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. And I used to play with friends online in groups.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Description: A three-day event with rich content in several tracks, brain dates with coolest minds in SaaS, mentoring sessions with entrepreneurs from all around the world and the opportunity to score VC funding from billionaires!

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not only that, but Forrester also recognized Atlassian’s strategy for enterprise service management with the highest possible score. Instead, we use our open integrations strategy to bring this capability to customers. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Head = how much of the culture emphasizes analytical ability, strategy, planning, etc. Very bullish on this group. Folks like @williampbarnes @joshmohrer have formed angel groups supporting alumni spinouts (and other startups too!).

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Head = how much of the culture emphasizes analytical ability, strategy, planning, etc. Very bullish on this group. Folks like @williampbarnes @joshmohrer have formed angel groups supporting alumni spinouts (and other startups too!).

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. But once we make that decision as a group, I need you to stop dissenting and I need you to get on board and support the decision. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So this was based on a small group of customers but they felt that this was right. So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). We worked out exactly how the floor would work. Here’s one example at MOO.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

From major players in the field such as Delphix and ADP to Okta, Lumen, and Glint, get ready to hear about Customer Success Operations, CS at Scale, CS Strategy, Human First Customer Success, and Product Experience. Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement.

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