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. And they’re right.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market development targets new markets with existing products, while product development – existing markets with new products. If so, we’ve got you covered.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Visual Methods.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. And you definitely felt that. And I got it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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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. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. You may not understand someone else’s definition or report. With a bit of human-centric thinking, teams can build shared understanding of why, what and how to measure their work. Generating data is easy.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. FullStory is used by enterprises and large organizations but the platform has a few shortcomings: Mobile integrations. What is FullStory used for?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. What Outsourcing Really is: Types and Opportunities When we say “outsourcing”, what we often mean is different levels of involvement, commitment, technical expertise, and responsibility.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Almost all apps experienced significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. You will definitely be able to engage remotely with my really tiny dog who has a very loud voice. Transcript. I just heard Lola make noise.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2021

What about software solutions they have to review based only on a single web page? The Map My Growth team surveyed 98 professionals currently looking for a B2B SaaS solution and used their feedback to compile a list of best practices to better communicate the ease of use. No technical support required. How much does it matter?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. Plot summary.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Poor onboarding may actually drive users away from activation and adoption. While their features for in-app guides and user analytics are similar in many ways, WalkMe focuses on employee onboarding for enterprise-level businesses, while Pendo helps create walkthroughs for customer onboarding as well. But the opposite is also true.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team. Segmentation features aren't very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer. The poor UI design may actually slow your team down. Professional.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

As I shared in the prior newsletter , being a product person means that by definition you're living in a world where no one knows the right answer yet because if somebody did, they would've already built it. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Customer success teams don’t have time to waste. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 New tools must show their value fast. 2 – The best customer success software will be no-code.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

Like many, I’ve read the articles and seen the videos of the ten or so genius tech founders we all hear about repeatedly. In that time, I’ve been lucky to work for some of the great technology companies in iteratively better and better roles. Even with a long history in enterprise product roles, finding the next role was not easy.

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eG Innovations

JULY 19, 2022

There are hundreds of monitoring tools available in the market for enterprises and MSPs to choose from. Grafana is developed by Grafana Labs with a free version of Grafana available on GitHub under a GNU AGPLv3 license. Demonstrating due diligence with respect to security with Nagios can also be challenging.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2022

Whatfix is a digital adoption platform for both employee and user onboarding, aimed at larger enterprise companies. Whatfix is a digital adoption platform for employee and user onboarding, aimed at larger enterprise companies. for employee onboarding use case for enterprises: Walkme. Whatfix Reviews. Let's dive in!

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. It’s certainly a vivid definition and one that I was staring at through tears in the summer of 2017.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2021

It helps product and product marketing teams piece together and analyze the cross-channel data to improve their touchpoints. Definition of Customer Journey Analytics Why You Need It: The Benefits of Customer Journey Analytics Where to Start Using Customer Journey Analytics? Definition of Customer Journey Analytics.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

It certainly helps that Google, Amazon, Dropbox and other tech super-companies attribute so much of their success to them. They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. For example: O: Become a leader in the enterprise KR: Launch v2.2 Measurable?—?all

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2023

This article will compare the features, strengths, weaknesses, reviews, and pricing of each tool, enabling you to confidently decide which one is the best fit for your business needs. Using a tool for interactive user guides is crucial since it reduces reliance on developers and enables you to trigger user guides contextually.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2023

With so many alternatives on review sites, it’s a bit tricky to really choose one. But it’s very complicated to use, requires a lot of technical setups and is also punishingly expensive! Which tool is better – Pendo or Whatfix – for interactive user guides? The pros of Whatfix are i.a.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

With so many different customer feedback tools on review sites, it’s a bit tricky to really choose one. TL;DR Collecting customer feedback is an important task for any product team. Product adoption tools with in-built survey functionality are common choices for collecting user feedback for SaaS product teams.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2023

We know that review sites aren’t always super-helpful. It provides a no-code solution that allows non-technical teams to design and implement in-app experiences without any coding skills. It enables product teams to track product usage and user behavior to guide product development and optimize the user experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 1, 2023

Using tools, non-technical people such as product managers or customer success managers can collect and analyze user feedback at scale, without having to rely on developers. With that being said, Whatfix isn’t a perfect tool: it does a poor job when it comes to analytics and customization. But it all comes at a price.

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