Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 But Engineering usually tracks this, and the Finance team reports it to our CFO and Board every quarter.  Thus   BTW, that must be paired with leadership-level cultural changes to reward thinking before action, and executive applause when we spend a little time/money to sidestep a major disaster.  We

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

There are some well-known names as well as new faces on the list, from all over the world – together with their LinkedIn profiles and medium blogs, so you can follow their journeys and insightful posts yourself. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level. Strategy and leadership skills are nice-to-have but not mandatory.

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The Product Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

💰Financial Game Plan Starting out can be slow, so have a plan to keep your finances in check. 🧐Find Your Special Sauce Discovery, Leadership, Transformation – find your product coaching flavor. 💬Build Trust with Quick Responses Become a name clients can trust. Where does your passion fit?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Vice-President of Product is a part of the senior leadership team and they are responsible for the overall product strategy and vision across the entire business. Industry-specific experience – depending on the industry (like healthcare, finance, retail, etc.), On average, they make $331k a year. Core product manager skills.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. But it is quicker to achieve and often sufficient.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

I have since moved to the Core Technologies team , a group of specialists with expertise in the core technologies that Intercom uses – MySQL, Ruby, Rails, and Elasticsearch, to name a few. The leadership team spends time thinking about processes , making sure they listen to the talented folks they have hired, and setting them up for success.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Product management is not just that, it’s a key business function (also known as company function) the same way engineering, finance, sales and human resources are, to name a few. That includes marketing, customer support, operations, senior management, sales, HR, finance, etc.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2019

We have to take care of our product, our team, perhaps our finances. And the symptoms of emotional debt aren’t healthy either; sarcasm, anxiety, trouble sleeping and focusing, and fatigue, to name just a few. Being a product manager can be like riding a bike, except the bike is on fire – you’re on fire, everything is on fire.

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

New York, NY – (January 15) – Alpha (www.alphahq.com), the leading market intelligence platform provider, announced today that it has named Rob Holland as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Holland has also held leadership positions in product management at The Nielsen Company. “We

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

New York, NY – (January 15) – Alpha (www.alphahq.com), the leading market intelligence platform provider, announced today that it has named Rob Holland as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Holland has also held leadership positions in product management at The Nielsen Company. “We

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DISQO

JANUARY 15, 2020

New York, NY – (January 15) – Alpha (www.alphahq.com), the leading market intelligence platform provider, announced today that it has named Rob Holland as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Holland has also held leadership positions in product management at The Nielsen Company. “We

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Finance allocates your cost, but finance also models the impact of what you do.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Finance allocates your cost, but finance also models the impact of what you do.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2023

Stepping out of leadership challenges for a moment, here’s a practical topic that some product managers struggle with: is the next thing we’re working on a feature or a whole product ?  IMO,  Common naming model, shared upgrade policies, simple pricing units, similarly structured ROI stories, etc.

Customer Experience 65

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them. The opportunities should be the same.”

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 7, 2021

She has worked with each client at Bain Public, like Metro Media, Watch Moji, and Blaise Transit to name a few, which gives her diverse experience with different types of startups. Abigail views product management through a business and research lens. She believes roadmapping success can be elevated only after people start using the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. When people detect a bottleneck in the system, the operational cadence of the company starts slowing down. You can’t just leave that up to us.”

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2021

I strongly believe that human skills like those listed above are meta skills that are just as essential to product management and leadership as more traditional skills like strategy development, data analytics, roadmap development, etc. But why even ask the question in the first place? 5 things that I bet you didn’t know about Empathy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Go-to-market groups rarely know the names of makers, and often don’t know what they really do. Thank them by name in executive meetings. Having trouble getting Finance to sign off on a new code check-in tool? Merchandize the good work of our teams. And our teams desperately want to feel needed and appreciated.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support. Andrew’s name kept popping up when we asked guests who in growth do you think we have the most to learn from? “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 13, 2019

Traditionally, there are teams/departments that inadvertently stifle innovation (marketing, brand, legal to name just a few). Building a successful, repeatable, innovation process requires senior leadership buy-in (ideally they will drive it). By engaging such teams from the outset will significantly increase the likelihood of success.

Customer Experience 140

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 1, 2017

This is where medium-to-large companies have product managers sprinkled around, but without a single point of leadership or concentration. Product names are unrelated, each has a unique pricing unit (per seat subscription, transaction fee, one-time fee) or licensing terms, and overlapping features slow down sales.

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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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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” There is a senior functional manager, where the function is Engineering or IT or some name like that. Yes, the people are literally underneath their names on the org chart. Neither do Finance or HR, or other “Admin” functions. That’s why I called it “typical.”

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Other names and phrases for unshipping: killing, reverting, deprecating, sunsetting, rolling back, removing, winding down, retiring, and obsolescence. Our biases, and several other reasons, encourage us to keep things.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2016

His first is Mantra Leadership and his second and most recent is Mantra Design. The reason I use them is that they allow for effective leadership communication. As they grow and get bigger, the innovative people begin to move out and more finance people come in. He has also written two books. Dana on LinkedIn. Innovation Quote.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

In their report , Mixpanel uses the data from users to analyze product performance in reach, activation , engagement, and retention across four industries (Finance, Media, eCommerce, and SaaS). It hosts product experts from some big-name companies like Amazon or Uber. Mixpanel Product Benchmark Report. 2021 NPS Benchmarks (Satmetrix).

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. 11:22 Mark: And were you considering equity finance at the same time? 19:57 Mark: And what can you say about that, in terms of kind of finances of the business when you were raising? And you can do it at a much better interest rate.

Feedback Software 59

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We write down a sticky with the name of that work on the right-hand side of the wall or board. ” Managers (functional managers, project managers, Scrum Masters, you name it) can’t be responsible for the team’s results. I wonder if the first thing is to understand the essential complexity of our current system.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

If my product needed a better value proposition, I worked with customers to invent it and finance to determine how much new value we could capture. You need everyone on board: your leadership , your team , teams that won’t be directly helping you to build things… absolutely everyone. People started using the product name as verb.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

Financing (including raising money, budget planning, admin etc.). Now you are ready to move on to finance and try to raise money for this little baby you have in your hands. But if you do survive and make it to the first significant financing, you immediately start the second iteration. You are still in your first cycle.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. These often come from visible, credible consumer tech companies with household names and high transaction volumes. If we think of KPIs as generic and universal, then it makes sense to copy them from directly from successful companies.

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Gainsight

MARCH 20, 2019

When I think about health scores, it’s hard not to picture the analogy that’s built into the name: health. When the the amount of data is not statistically significant, then buy-in from the larger org and leadership is critical for it to add value. And if people dont easily understand it, they will not buy in.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

Claire Suellentrop: So no shame in saying when I made that Twitter handle Twitter wouldn’t fit my first name and last name all into one handle. It’s finance and budgeting software. So my husband and I have been using YNAB to manage our personal finances for maybe three to four years. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Product Beautiful

JUNE 8, 2014

Our next stop was Finance. We scheduled a meeting with someone that Finance identified as the “Genie of Sales Compensation.” 1 Name changed to protect the innocent. At this point, we needed to get educated (quickly) on how Sales at this company was motivated. Weigh in below in the comments section.

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