Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Interestingly, smaller companies cited AI as a greater focus area than their larger counterparts with 10,000+ employees, which were more heavily focused on initiatives like cloud migration, user experience, and modernizing their customer-facing products. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Marty Cagan, in his book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” , mentions the use of customer surveys as a tool for understanding customer needs and preferences. It covers various survey types , practical implementation strategies, crafting trigger questions, and selecting effective feedback channels.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 17, 2018

The role of product manager is somewhat synonymous 1 with the agile concept of “product owner” where you are the representative of the “customer” to the development team. The implication is that this is a role that channels the customers’ needs, desires, demands into the process.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. To start with, it’s easier to cater to the needs of a small group of users.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

The companies that are surviving in this industry have to get large. Reading this article, you will learn how Chris Bomgaars, a CEO and Founder of EveryPig, found his solution to tackle this industrial problem. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

To grow our customer base and market share? I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product.

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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. the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They are based on blockchain technology, a decentralized ledger that records transactions across a network of computers. Cryptocurrencies have gained popularity due to their potential to offer greater privacy, security, and decentralization compared to traditional fiat currencies.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving

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Usersnap

MARCH 6, 2019

Customer feedback is important. But customers have short attention spans. So, how do you overcome this hurdle and get this extremely valuable customer feedback? There are many options for you to choose in collecting customer feedback. Why is customer feedback valuable? Automated Email.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

One approach regularly discussed is the importance of crafting personalized customer experiences. One of the best ways to drive better customer experience than using sentiment analysis tools. Tools like this can also help if you struggle to find how to respond to positive reviews effectively.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best for content performance insights. Best teams on a budget who need the basics. FullStory dubs itself a “Digital Experience Intelligence (DXI) platform” using web and mobile analytics to understand user behavior. Session Insights. So if you’re a mobile app team, consider using a mobile-first analytics platform.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For years, managers have been trying to find ways to make software product development faster and easier. As an industry, we've tried tons of things. AI to take the place of humans in product development. And I don't want to return to the bad old days—I much prefer where we are now.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

To avoid these inaccurate insights, we will dive into the nitty-gritty of different biases and the ways you can avoid them. Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. Survey bias occurs when feedback deviates based on influences from the surveyor and/or respondent.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. Never before has the customer been empowered with so many choices and information about those choices. How can we be more profitable?

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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Making of Product Managers by Lena Sesardic gives you eight actionable insights from 20 stories of real product managers who broke into product management from different fields.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Engineers will hear different insights during your customer interviews. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 18, 2018

One of the larger themes that you’ll hear in ad tech circles today focuses around transparency. With the abundance of ad tech players regularly added to a brands’ media plan, understanding exactly where your ad budget is going is nearly impossible. One of the biggest challenges we had to overcome was from our internal teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. In some mature industries, it is increasingly difficult to find opportunities for new products. Build something really fast and demo it to the customer to get instant feedback.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

Customer engagement plays a critical role in your company’s growth and depends on your customer experience. As Steve Jobs once said: “ You have to start with customer experience and work your way back toward the technology, not the other way around. ”. What is Customer Engagement? But how do you measure it?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Breakthrough, disruptive or radical innovation are all more dramatic and often involve challenging the existing business model or introducing completely new technology. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. This makes the product loved by our users ( check G2 reviews ).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both both from a technical and business perspective. New ideas are exciting. It answers the questions: Does my idea solve a real problem?

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Centercode

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s even harder when you’re sharing the results from your Customer Validation (CV) tests, which return lots of valuable product information and customer insights. I’m sorry, too much feedback? For example, you know your engineering team will be looking for issues to fix, and ideas to implement.

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Indicative

JUNE 1, 2020

Competition for attention spans in the gaming industry is fierce. One of the driving forces is the speed of growth in the sector, especially due to COVID-19’s shelter-in-place measures. With marketing spend decreasing across the board due to COVID-related budget cuts, every dollar you invest needs to yield a clear revenue outcome.

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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. After a quick entrée from the foodservice industry, we’ll explore the overnight Product Manager trend which can result in a negative transition into product management. Customer feedback ?—?what

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Artificial intelligence is considered the fourth industrial revolution. And, like all industrial revolutions, it will have a great impact not only on our economy, but all other aspects of our lives. Could we make the user experience safer? Integrity classifiers allow to flag harmful or malicious user-generated content.

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