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.    Now.   “ How hard could it be? 

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Product success is not something you can achieve on your own as a product manager or Scrum product owner. Instead, you rely on the contributions and the support of the key stakeholders , the development team members, and possibly other product people who help you manage a large product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Let me walk through the entire workshop in the phases with its results.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. all pointing to a simple fact.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ready to learn the most common product manager interview questions and answers to land the job? The role of product management is inherently multidisciplinary, with PMs sitting at the center of many related activities. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs." So, let's get to it!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ready to learn the most common product manager interview questions and answers to land the job? The role of product management is inherently multidisciplinary, with PMs sitting at the center of many related activities. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs." So, let's get to it!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product management is one of the fastest-growing jobs in tech today, and that growth doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. Product managers are responsible for organizing and guiding the development and shipping of products at every stage of their lifecycle. So, let's get to it!

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product manager courses are everywhere. Product management is one of the most diverse disciplines and requires an extremely broad set of skills. Additionally, the product manager role drastically changes with your seniority. Beginner product manager. Mid-career product manager.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Innovation Is Just Good Product Management By ADRIENNE TAN Innovation has become a buzzword in countless organisations. CEOs want it, strategists write about it, marketers talk about it, and product managers strive to deliver it. This approach is a costly exercise and can be likened to ‘gambling’.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Regular roadmap reviews. Expand your horizons.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Developing a Product Strategy.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

We also recommend checking out our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Report as we break down more engagement and experience-focused stats by category such as retention, loyalty, ratings and reviews, shifted sentiment, in-app survey responses, and more. Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Reprinted with permission from the Product Management and Strategic Marketing Blog. The top challenge most product companies face is finding the best market for their product. Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. Just remember to focus.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And any solution can be labeled as a “strategy” once its scope includes understanding of competitors and the tactics to beat them. So if you are a PM aspiring to think more “strategically,” try this simple exercise of asking “why” to everything you do. Now we are getting to strategy! Good Strategy / Bad Strategy? —?good

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Imagine there are ten different types of users who will interact with your product, each with unique goals and ways of using the interface. This approach not only enhances the usability of the product but also aligns its development with the real-world requirements of its users, making it more likely to succeed in the market.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Un)fortunately, Product Management is not really an entry-level job. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions. Even really young candidates have stuff to talk about.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. Two options, to force yourself to choose.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. For example, a product can be transactional or non-transactional. Usually the product manager is the product owner.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2020

But arrange them into ‘outcomes vs outputs’ and hand them over to the product management community, and suddenly everyone is talking about them! If you’re someone who builds a product or products, have to make high level strategic product decisions…this is something you need to be thinking about.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. And, using what go-to market strategy. At what price?

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

Finding Your Product’s Critical Event(s) By now you have most likely heard the phrase “build it, they will come”. This was introduced in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but gained popularity in tech in the early days of the dotcom boom when the players were limited and early adopters eager to experience all the web had to offer.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. What Does the Scrum Guide Say about the Sprint Review?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Review design. Depending on how you communicate your product’s vision, this might include competitive and market analysis reports, revenue projections, detailed personas, user journey maps or story maps. What does 1 year down the road look like for our product? Review sprint work in retro. Write spec. Create ticket.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Making a choice does not always have to be hard How Product Managers and Leaders Can Reduce Complexity The principles of j?d? Frederick Taylor is by no means the best source of wisdom for modern product or innovation managers. Across these three dimensions, however, product strategy is by far the hardest to master.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. The diversity of backgrounds in product manager applicants increases the level of difficulty in making a good hire. The combination of both of those elements makes an effective product manager a hard role to fill.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the execution for a product involves doing whatever it takes to ensure your product ships.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. Yes, you’ve read it right!

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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