Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. B2B is lumpier than B2C.). Roadmaps are shared.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma.

Customer Experience 189

Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs User Testing Customer Feedback 189

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. I once heard an anecdote about a very young child being told a story about a very old man.

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Enterprise Startups Customer Experience Product Management 95

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. As a Digital Team in a Large Enterprise.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. Since leaving college, I knew I wanted to work in technology, in a sales or go-to-market position.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. To grow our customer base and market share?

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Weak Development Team Customer Experience Technical Review Customer Feedback 129

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 good CEO, a good product manager does the exact opposite.

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Data Visualization Weak Development Team Technical Review Software Review 105

Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I could go on about the very different narratives of leadership that are told nowadays—carrying themes like narcissism, greed, materialism, workaholism, sociopathy, mental illness, and others—but those have been well documented elsewhere.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.  Of course, your organization may look/behave very differently. 

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Reporting Tools Software Review Technical Review Weak Development Team 105

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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Software Developers Software Development Reporting Tools Software Review 96

The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. No one liked the product.

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User Testing Weak Development Team Product Research Customer Experience 167

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone.

User Testing 177

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Strategy 177

Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. The first 100 days after becoming a product leader while managing business disruption are especially important to your long-term success. Strengths/Weaknesses). A product leader hired to handle disruption is a leader in the face of adversity.

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Banking Feedback Software Weak Development Team Customer Feedback 148

The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. What are OKRs? This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large you are probably not challenging yourselves enough.

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Weak Development Team Roadmap KPI Strategy 78

The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.

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Feedback Software Analytic Tools Technical Advisors Strategy 148

Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

A mental model started to emerge as I was trying to represent the product manager role in a similar way to the Maslow hierarchy of needs for human beings. Its main merit is to represent product management role as something that is easy to explain visually. The team tend to operate in weekly / bi-weekly cadence.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. This approach just doesn’t work.

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Weak Development Team Analytic Tools Customer Experience Data Visualization 60

Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. Frequent design changes. Shortage of resources.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

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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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Given that product strategy provides product teams with so much guidance, why does it seem like your product strategy is more reactive, and is that ok? Guides your product decisions.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more). Agile Leadership Summit.

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Research Software Onboarding KPIs Technical Review Agile 86

BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Though you may not have realized it, a Product Manager was most likely involved in the creation of your favorite product. To find out more, we spoke to a number of Senior PMs for some insight on how to get a job as Product Manager. Product management as a whole is the exact opposite. Commit to Continuous Learning.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Product School was founded in 2014 and now maintains 20 campuses around the world where they offer certifications in Product Management. From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP). Leading a diverse team. But your time is valuable too. So how do you decide?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? And it has got me thinking….

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

I feel limited in my growth as there is not upward opportunity as a Senior Product Manager. How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Even though it is a large enterprise, you can apply these tips within any size of company.

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User Testing Feedback Software Technical Review Product Research 59

Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. Let’s get to it.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue.

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