Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. It is built on the idea that goals are more important than features, and it consists of five elements: date, name, goal, features, and metrics, as the picture below shows. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. Get rid of non-value-added work.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. It is important to note that planning for and executing an experiment is just the first half of the exercise.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Rebooting teams. Roadmaps are stories.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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BrainMates

APRIL 8, 2020

It was the last day the whole Brainmates Team was in the office together before shifting to remote working for who-knows-how-long. Our Essentials of Product Management course is highly interactive and creative with many free-form exercises and collaborative activities. Interactive exercise boards – Miro.com.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Agile in Name Only There was a cook who, whenever roasting lamb, cut the leg tip after having watched his mother do it, thinking it made a difference. Agile and The Intuition Gap Iteration via smaller steps allows workers to exercise better intuitive judgment about their work. Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

His name is Steve Glaveski and we discuss his system for getting more accomplished in less time. The 4-Hour Work Week focuses on making the leap from employee to entrepreneur, but my system is for individuals working either for themselves or as part of a team, and for leaders of organizations looking to build Time Rich cultures.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. When a group of people adopts a strategy, it transforms the product strategy from just a piece of paper to something that drives team success. Consistent strategic results are essential because as teams scale, wasting time and resources gets easier.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

Google places a significant emphasis on technical skills for its engineering teams. The candidate may have struggled with developing their solution, requiring some guidance from the interviewer. The candidate displayed a poor use of language paradigms. 1 Point: The candidate's problem-solving skills were poor.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. Additional information is never a bad thing at this point. guess what?

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Userzoom

JULY 3, 2019

We heard earlier, didn’t we about this nirvana in one company where the legal team is integrated in with the UX people. Legal teams are our entrenched enemies that say that we have to have cookie notifications, and checkboxes, and all that kinda crap we don’t like. But if you give it a name, it sounds cool.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

There are two types of unit testing: Manual : As the name implies, unit tests are run manually to verify the correctness of your code. Any developer can quickly look at your tests and know the purpose of your functions. Name your tests appropriately. They enable you to catch bugs early in the development process.

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

Let’s face it, user personas have gotten a bad rap over the years. As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. Personas provide a common language across multiple teams.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

Do you empower small, agile teams? Now the other interesting thing about Eddie Lampert story is there were other players in the areas served by a company like Sears namely Home Depot, Lowe’s Sears was a big provider to home hobbyists. And I’m not saying that’s good or bad. Upcoming Events.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

After thousands of conversations with product teams evaluating Mixpanel, we sifted through the data to identify the questions that we see come up again and again. Here’s a summary of exactly what teams and objectives are best served by each: Marketing analytics (e.g. Product analytics (e.g. Source: Semetis.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Often, these organizations were once created to train farm boys into assembly-line workers within a standardized industrial process churning out standardized products in the name of output optimization. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

What’s in a name? Whereas, in another company, the role is expanded to be the expert collaborator that binds the whole product team together. For example; in a smaller company, a Java Developer will have pretty much the same core activities as they do in a larger company. it’s much trickier in the world of products.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up. Executives frequently don’t have much insight into the day-to-day operations of various teams.

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Amplitude

MAY 30, 2018

He landed his first official product role at Peloton , the company behind the smart indoor exercise bike that’s taking the fitness world by storm. Name: David Packles Current role: Senior PM, Peloton Location: New York City. Name: David Packles Current role: Senior PM, Peloton Location: New York City. “As

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. And that’s not a bad thing. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. Let’s go find a bunch of speakers that we like, people whose names we might recognize.” I’ve had personally some bad experiences, where I didn’t really get much support. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop the idea.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Strategy begins by identifying the structure of the challenge, not by naming performance goals. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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