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. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. Engineering managers are tech experts and great leaders. So let's get to it!

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are senior executives in the C-suite (buyer personas) that have VPs and directors reporting to them, the department heads. Then the department heads have managers and staff reporting to them (user personas). And finally, we’ll look and B2B buyer personas and the role they play in product development. Role-Based Personas.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. And what a year it has been!

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.) Experienced salespeople will come back with….

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Modus Create

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not an understatement to say that the success of a new digital product launch is largely determined during the product development process. But for many products in the marketplace today, it is no longer enough to incorporate AI into the product development process. AI can help your employees be more competitive and efficient.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? What Is a Chief Product Officer? . of a Chief Product Officer.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. They’ll interpret the data results and surface them to the product team to make the next call.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . Unfortunately, technical debt can do that to your team. Technical debt refers to the cost you accumulate by favoring easy and quick solutions over best practices in engineering.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals. One software product manager at a small company placed the blame on management. It’s relatively new to have easy access to reams of real-time data and the tools to crunch it quickly.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. A 2018 report by CBInsights zeroed in on the top 20 reasons for startup failure­. No market need for the product or service.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

What I did need to do was to find out what their product development definition was and launch a new product. The product was a very sophisticated collection of 5 pieces of hardware and 15 pieces of off-the-shelf software that all had to be custom configured in order to create a super secure system. We all got along very well.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. Mikey is here to help you help your employees succeed with processes, tools, advice, and war stories from his experience as an entrepreneur. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Peldi Guilizzoni (CEO/Founder, Balsamiq) – 10 Years Of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned from Business of Software Conference. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap report – women represent just 36.9% 78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. Melissa Kwan : “I quit my job in SAP and wanted to start a company that uses technology.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. ” Traditional agile, let’s say Scrum for example, looks a bit different: “OK dev team! This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. And shipping!)

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having gender- and cultural-equitable teams, where a multitude of voices and perspectives collaborate to further our innovative work.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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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. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. As a result, he says, “We need to understand and quantify the risk profile of new solutions using generative AI.”

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Brought to you by: • DX —A platform for measuring and improving developer productivity • Persona —A global leader in digital identity verification • Vanta —Automate compliance. If you’re not doing this yet, try implementing it in your team’s workflow. e-commerce. e-commerce.

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