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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.)

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. How do I build alignment?

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Using Outsourcing to Launch and Scale Your Product Faster

Mind the Product

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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TEI 217: 50% of what makes product managers successful that most are missing – with Paresh Shah

Product Innovation Educators

That is where I spend much of my time helping product managers and teams. It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. As companies want to become innovators, one of the primary areas we advise CEOs to look to is product managers.

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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Chaos Report 2015. Finding this match is the ultimate challenge in innovative product development, and it’s nearly impossible to plan this entirely in advance. Technical Feasibility.

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How Do I Become a Product Manager at IBM?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.