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.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 18, 2018

year Journey Building Spongecell’s Self-Service Dynamic Creative Optimization Product Why Transition to a Subscription Model? One of the larger themes that you’ll hear in ad tech circles today focuses around transparency. Managed service is a business model where a company uses internal resources (e.g.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you've searched for this comparison, you're probably looking for a tool that will help you gain actionable insights to drive your product growth. Whether looking for an alternative to your existing tool or setting up product analytics at your organization, we're here to help. Heap vs Pendo? Book the demo!

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

A product without customer onboarding software is a lot like attending a dinner party where you don’t know anyone and haven’t been welcomed in. That’s why KBCM reports that nearly 20% of SaaS companies have an average contract length of less than one year. What is SaaS customer onboarding software? Table of Contents. Userpilot.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. An aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, Adam learned early the best way to earn trust was proving you deserve it. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Can the signing of an ISA with the bootcamp be considered a wise investment in your professional development?

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Usersnap

JUNE 17, 2019

72% of customers blame poor customer service as the reason for having to explain their issue multiple times. But, as a customer service agent or the feedback receiver, you know customers are sometimes just as guilty. How do you shorten the tedious back-and-forth cycle in clarifying technical issues?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To and one engineer in Iceland.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. And what a year it has been!

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Forrester reports that insight-driven businesses are growing at an average of 30% each year and are predicted to take $1.8 We spoke to two leaders at growing digital companies about how integrating data-informed practices into their operations, including mature product analytics with a platform like Mixpanel, can lead to success.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Three huge economic sectors employ the majority of data scientists or analysts: finance, insurance and professional services. Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They get to know all of this by using data as a strategic asset—because good product teams are made up of good product analysts. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Asking developers to pull data isn’t an efficient use of their time.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. trillion to global GDP, “making it the biggest commercial opportunity in today’s fast changing economy”, according to a recent report by PwC. Could we make the user experience safer?

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. It has been reported that a Java application is very flaky in terms of memory issues. 3: Work with your AppDev team on chaos engineering and game days to simulate edge cases.

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BrainStation Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion. They help figure out what products should get made, ensure that they do get made, and report back on how users are responding to those products. Learn product management skills to boost your career – from home!

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2021

It’s what helps teams build great product experiences. How to implement a successful product intelligence solution. Product intelligence is integrated software that allows teams to use customer data to continuously make smart changes to products. Another example is project management software and other SaaS products.

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Birst BI

MAY 29, 2018

These adoption rates include all the users of the BI system – administrators who manage the system, analysts who build reports, and business users who consume reports for better decision making. This underutilization ignores employees outside the BI system who could be using valuable data to make better decisions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. Having said that, all teams need to be flexible every once in a while?—?all all team members in the company are in the same boat at the end of the day?—?but

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BrainStation Product Management

JULY 20, 2018

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion, and beyond. They help figure out what products should get made, ensure that they do get made, and report back on how users are responding to those products. Erikkson, 2011. What is Product Management?

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2021

Then, I’ll go a bit deeper and look into 10 user persona examples for 3 SaaS tools, to showcase how products with several different use cases can have dramatically different personas. User persona’s pain points (blockers): Is using other solutions too time-consuming? What is a user persona? You’re looking for details.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In response, he has given them processes to follow and skilled people to carry them out, which leads to market-responsive products and services. Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. They literally broke the scale.

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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. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. Developing a strategy. Also, roughly when the team will have a working version ready for the market. This includes developers, the sales and marketing teams, and any executives or investors who will need to sign off on the plan.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

However, a PM career looks different than other roles in tech. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. How to Become a Product Manager: The Ultimate Career Path Guide Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. That’s how I ended up moving from that job into an analytics job at a tech company in San Francisco. That was my first job in tech.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Development teams usually create a list of guidelines known as coding conventions. Embrace coding conventions. Use a code linter.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

In a nutshell, product design encompasses the process of creating a product, from understanding the problem to creating a solution. Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. Which mean your customers know what bad design looks like. Now, we can use it to describe both hardware and software design.

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