Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Working as a product trio can be a major transformation. Making the shift to product trios involves changing everything from the coworkers you collaborate with most closely and your communication style to the mindset you bring to work every day. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well.

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. When I wrote Build Better Products in 2016, it honestly came out of a ton of consulting. Laura: Exactly.

Weak Development Team

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

Reporting Tools

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team.

CTO Coach

Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult. Learn more here.

User Testing

Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what.

Research Software

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. More here.)

Roadmap