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Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent

Mironov Consulting

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So This would seem obvious, but every week I discover another engineering/product organization building generic software in-house that’s not strategic to their core business.  

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Adapting to Product Risks

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Syed Abdullah (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bryan Postelnek]. I have worked on several products that were built with passion and vigor. At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are deployed to many airports in the U.S.

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Becoming a Product Leader: Leading Product Success in the First 100 Days

Product Management Unpacked

I first saw this method enacted when I was a young product leader at a publicly-held enterprise software company. In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Strengths/Weaknesses). Who should you start with?

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The Roadmap Battle Royale

The Product Coalition

The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. You own it, but many other teams are gunning to influence it daily.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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5 Ways Your Company May Be Misusing OKRs

The Product Coalition

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. In fact, of all the management tools, OKRs are the easiest to misuse, overuse and abuse?—?many This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. For example: O: Become a leader in the enterprise KR: Launch v2.2

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Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit

The Product Coalition

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.