Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. an angry internal stakeholder shouted.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2020

During my career I have spent time working closely with Service Designers on a variety of projects and products, and I believe there are five key lessons from the Service Designer discipline that can help & enhance Product Management. Consider the steps and actions taken in the product, and the context the user is in.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

But a weird thing happens when “efficiency” becomes part of your brand: It becomes a hallmark not only of finished products, but of the ways in which they are created, too. And the result is almost always an inferior product. And as it turns out, efficiently made software is often not very good software. Absolutely.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. As the person in charge of a product, you are responsible for achieving product success. But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. It was no longer the reign of developers, but a company-wide tool to communicate and be in sync. Tip: Throwing more tools into the problem only makes it worst.

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. In essence, it’s the process of sharing a piece of design and gathering feedback from your colleagues or other peers. Hundreds of such tools are available online and offline. Internal evaluations ?—?These

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. Martin argued that we product people suffer from this more than most as we’re generalists in a world of specialists. Here’s what we heard: Martin Eriksson at #mtpcon London 2018.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. With a bit of human-centric thinking, teams can build shared understanding of why, what and how to measure their work.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. All product managers love a good test. Test Everything.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry. .

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. Strategic decisions include delineating the product vision, value proposition, product differentiators, and product roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” If you’ve been reading my articles in the past you know the system I’m alluding to?—?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

If there’s one critical skill for product managers to nail, it’s customer activation. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll break down underlying customer activation strategies and actionable strategies, specific onboarding tools , and techniques, and tangible examples to learn from. What are you waiting for?

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

TL;DR Open-ended questions are essential in SaaS user research for eliciting detailed insights into user experiences, preferences, and challenges, enabling businesses to tailor their products and services more effectively to user needs. What challenges have you faced in implementing our software?” “How Let’s get started.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Having an established UX design process can save you time, energy, money and can also save you from a bad headache. It is important to look for these skeletons in the very beginning of the UX design process so we can find solutions for them, too. Find out more about our experience and process of kick-off workshops.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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UX Studio

MAY 8, 2018

Good team competency management is key for high-quality work, so, we recently mapped the whole team. Each member of our team eagerly improves their own skill-set all the time. As a company, we aim to make sure everyone gets to develop themselves in the areas most important for them. Client Management.

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 3, 2016

I received an excellent and insightful question from one of my former students in DIT’s product management degree program (enrollment for the next cohort closes in a month). Product managers and owners would manage the backlog items as JIRA tickets. Just Ingest. High Fidelity Connections.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Des: Welcome to the 12th episode of Intercom on Product. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Balance is a key element to navigating a roadmap – between customer-facing and internal, creativity and productivity, between different functions. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Des: Welcome to the 12th episode of Intercom on Product. Paul: Hey Des, glad to be here.

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