Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI is poised to bring about a significant transformation in the enterprise sector. The AI Journey So Far The encouraging news is that most enterprises have already embarked on their artificial intelligence journey over the past decade years. Remember that we are still in the nascent stages of generative AI technology.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. As agile becomes the go-to philosophy for software development, it’s influencing other areas of business, including non-IT teams. What is Agile Leadership?

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 3, 2017

From the simple: an app on your smartphone to approve purchase requisitions, to the complex: integration of the CRM, the Marketing systems, and the ERP system to provide deep insight into the function and flow of business, and much more were realized every day. Business model shift.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2020

As tech continues its path toward democratization, with better offerings available to more people, an odd contradiction has revealed itself: on the enterprise side of things, most software simply isn’t very good. I’m not trying to become an enterprise software company.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" As more enterprises turn digital, this will become a stronger need for them.

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eG Innovations

JUNE 21, 2022

To support this initiative, we offer flexible licensing options that meet the needs of clients regardless of the solution they choose to employ. However, poor ISV (Independent Software Vendors) licensing options are often a blocker to adopting circularity. Circular IT and Zero Waste Strategies are vital goals for eG Innovations.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

After studying at Yale University, Eric began his career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. By focusing on real customer feedback and adapting continuously, companies can develop sustainable businesses more effectively, whether they’re new ventures or established enterprises. How did Eric Ries begin his career?

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

Innovative technology is the solution. But technology is also a challenge, as too many tools are inefficient and too few tools are incomplete. As an example, TIBCO ® Data Virtualization is pre-integrated with TIBCO’s flagship BI tool, Spotfire ® , but it also works well with Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

As Modus Create CEO Pat Sheridan succinctly puts it in his article on the top digital transformation trends , “As enterprise leaders, we need to figure out how AI augments and supports overall digital initiatives before blindly investing.” to “What should we consider?” There’s no doubt that a comprehensive AI strategy is critical.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

PX and PLG have long been areas of focus for SaaS startups, but enterprises are only just beginning to understand their potential to cut costs and drive growth. According to the report, 86% of respondents have already implemented a digital product experience, or are in the process of doing so. Here’s what we found.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. This is not to be confused with the traditional “agile software development,” according to the authors.

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Today’s guest blog is from Ainsley Brooks, Business Development Director at eG Innovations distributor partner UX Distribution Ltd who cover both the UK and Ireland, providing the IT reseller community easy access to a larger number of vendors and a single source for a broad range of solutions.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

While he’s worked in a range of roles and companies, he describes his focus as building enterprise applications for some of the largest companies. “We We believe that innovation stems from truly understanding the problems that we are trying to solve instead of just implementing a solution,” says Mike.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Businesses and governments are scrambling to understand the implications of this technology, now at the fingertips of everyday consumers. In such exciting times, it might be tempting to assume that shiny new technologies will dominate digital transformation trends in 2024.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 21, 2022

Product teams refer back to their product roadmap to understand how a product or solution will develop over time. In many cases, product roadmapping software is offered as a SaaS (software-as-a-service) product. Your tool needs to provide your team members with graphic templates to see your progress.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn.   Not everything that’s reported as a bug is a bug – or should be fixed.  Customers become a professional services/custom consulting company. Bug or feature?  

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management. Or non-software companies — where IT is squeezed as a cost center instead being the company’s main profit center. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. To meet customer expectations for consumer-like software usability. To share data with partners.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

SaaS growth is the change in product usage and payment transactions from a SaaS solution as a rate over time. Since the product itself plays a much more critical role in revenue compared to customer service, sales, and branding. Here are the five essential steps for any SaaS company seeking market leadership.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Kennedy is a CS OG, and she’s passionate about the intersection between people, technology, and the ability to solve problems through communication and product development. A major takeaway of our recent Evolution of Customer Success Report is that the strategic value of customer success is higher than ever.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 28, 2020

With digital transformation and customer experience at the forefront of most enterprise brand strategies in 2020 , product-focused roles are changing drastically. While we could chat top product management tools and technologies all day, we believe organizational changes will have the largest impact on this industry in 2020.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

Most of our tools and processes around product/feature prioritization are heads-down analytical: RICE, opportunity trees, Kano, weighted 16-column spreadsheets, WSJF, Eisenhower, whatever.  Our At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true. Then Engineering has to support them.  Most

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Describing one “special enterprise deal, which needs just this tiny thing”. Let’s dig in….

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Businesses are looking for a particular background in analytics or technology, which is understandable. Perhaps there are more desired attributes, such as previous experience with CRM systems. Systems and Data. The first requirement in most CS Ops positions is to establish a systemized way to capture your customer’s data.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Market Leadership: Amplitude stood out to me because it’s disrupting the digital marketplace–dominating the segment focused on digital product makers. I was excited to see the wide array of enterprise-class customers like IBM, Intuit, and many more of the world’s best-known brands. What motivated you to join Amplitude?

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

We’re excited to announce a new team member who will continue to grow the exceptional service Modus Create provides our clients. Mike’s extensive expertise in sales leadership and digital transformation will further bolster our client service organization. Mike Dobbs has joined the growth team as Vice President of Sales.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1  But Engineering usually tracks this, and the Finance team reports it to our CFO and Board every quarter.  Thus  (See Teresa Torres’s bestselling product book.) features.  Commitments

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.

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Userpilot

MAY 28, 2024

Teresa has coached hundreds of teams across various industries, from early-stage startups to large global enterprises. Teresa Torres holds a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. A/B testing in Userpilot.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. 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.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Product managers also have essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, empathy, collaboration, understanding customers, and strategic thinking. Based on an iterative approach, Agile methodology is one of the most common processes for enterprise software development. But to attain success, they need a clear purpose.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In this article I want to introduce you to the 6 best platforms for attending these courses. Every platform offers a variety of product management courses. Coursera for Business: Coursera for Business is the professional learning platform from Coursera. You can decide between two different plans (Team and Enterprise).

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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. You’ve generated interest in your software. Value Proposition.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

That was an eye opener, as most of my life, I focused on jumping to solutions, but spent little or no time in defining them in the right way. After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention.

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