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Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent

Mironov Consulting

 And calling out the need for some honest discovery before we embark on major engineering efforts.  Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators.  Once we start, we incrementally discover the next issue or dependency or complexity. and then the next.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

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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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Founders: What Are the Signs It’s Time to Evolve Your Core Customer Benefit?

The Product Coalition

Given that we have finite engineering and product resources, what is the path forward?” Should they/you evolve the features of the core value prop for existing customers or invest in and develop new value props and features for new, adjacent customer segments? Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    But it’s of zero help to Product, Engineering, Marketing, or other organizations that need to make choices about the few critical things we’ll do next year.  ” What To Do?

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall?

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The Hungry Man Parable

Mironov Consulting

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.