Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. So improving.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! The Feel-Good Story That Sealed the Deal.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? One way to answer this question is to avoid unhelpful but common leadership styles. As its name suggests, this leadership style mediates between different parties and tries to broker a deal. Recognise Your Leadership Bias.

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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 A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

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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. Market Competence ????? understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ??

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. More Information : Market Segmentation Tips and Strategize , pp. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. You should therefore strive to keep your product backlog as concise as possible whenever your product faces uncertainty and change—be it market, business, or technology related.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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Ronke PM

MAY 6, 2023

Table of Contents What is thoughtful leadership? Why thoughtful leadership is important in product management Final thoughts Each day brings new opportunities to impact someone else’s life story. This possibility invigorates a spark every morning and motivates me to become an architect of thoughtful leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. – Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. ” is rivaled only by “What is a roadmap?” Lafley and Roger L.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Product Leadership Forum is a chance for senior product professionals to discuss the challenges they face in a safe environment. By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. How to Level Up Your Product Teams to Product Leaders.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others. It’s not just about bringing together a diverse team.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical Skills As an AI product manager, not having a strong command of the technical aspects of product development is out of the question. It also requires you to have a sound foundation in the technologies that developers use to build AI products. This includes any relevant programming languages that they use in app development.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Table of Contents Product and design partnership What does design-driven leadership mean? Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

He is a strategic practitioner, having spent 20 years leading product, marketing, and business functions for large international corporations. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? I’m a big proponent of developing strategy with a team, but there does need to be one person accountable for it.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2018

New product development is a risky business for companies – the failure rate for product launches hovers around 40%. A quick look at Product Hunt demonstrates there is a flourishing market for new products, all of them competing for our time and money. Why use a Gate System?

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2023

Unlock The Power of Product-Led Teams By MARTIN NORTH With organisations debating and adopting competing strategies such as Sales-Led, Marketing-Led, or Customer-Led, learning about the benefits of being Product-Led might seem like an unnecessary distraction. How many different ways of being “led” do we need?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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