Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Key Skill For Success In Product Management SUCCESS TAKES TIME Product Management career entry and long-term success can be challenging. Building endurance across each role was the key skill that helped me to develop my career in PM. ENDURANCE FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS Endurance matters when you hit resistance.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Failing slowly is of course worse than pulling the plug early on a badly performing product. Failure is just the inevitable ingredient to create successful businesses and products. And yet, clearly articulated actions for what happens when the measure of success is not met anymore are rarely part of product planning.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The “Accidental” Product Manager?—?what what skills are required to be a great PM PM Meowalot Product Managers can come from various paths?—?from from Engineering to UX to Marketing to Project Management, Sales, Business Analysts, Entrepreneurs, Customer Service, and sometimes Marketing.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Engineers are bad at this. Nobody’s doing it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

An obvious next career step could be moving over to product management to focus solely on the products themselves. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)? Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. Whether you became a product manager or someone asked you to wear one more hat, leading can be stressful. One key to successful product management is to keep learning. The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to structure Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. The relative strengths and weaknesses can be summarized as follows. Analysis depth vs. breadth. Implementation. Implementation.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 13, 2022

How to tap into the valuable resources your legal counsel can provide – for product managers. Today we are talking about product leaders using legal resources. When and why should product VPs, CPOs, and other senior product roles involve legal resources? We help companies with financing.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. This approach works well for operational data, but it’s a bad approach for emotional data.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m currently a senior double majoring in Finance and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Growing up in rural Maryland and being the only child to two Asian immigrants meant that I had no idea what finance entailed. Joining the Modus Create Team.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. So in the words of the founders Mathilde Leo and Sebastian Powell , We often asked ourselves how other companies go about designing and building great products. How do product managers, designers and engineers make it all happen?

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 5, 2021

The best product teams have strong cultures based on discovery and delivery. These teams value and practice experimentation, risk mitigation, compelling product vision/strategy, and collaboration. Many chapters of the book can serve as team-assessment checklists. Key concepts for modern product teams.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. Our history dates back to 2013, when David Pasztor, a TED talk speaker and a UX design ambassador, founded UX studio with a bold goal — to become a product design partner for companies worldwide. . Momentum Design Lab.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

From understanding the analytics landscape to mapping capabilities with KPIs and integrating new tools with your current stack, we know that choosing a product analytics solution can be overwhelming—not to mention, time-consuming. Here’s a summary of exactly what teams and objectives are best served by each: Marketing analytics (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Big companies have the resources to access the best minds, leading thinking and proprietary data in ways that a startup often can’t. Plus there is so much startup knowledge that is freely available and accessible now. You need to work out how to overcome the forces that are most likely to derail your new product. Usually not.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 9, 2021

Strong product teams use a variety of product discovery techniques to identify and address risk. The best teams tackle the biggest risks first. What is Product Discovery. A key theme in Inspired is that strong product teams practices separate discovery and delivery activities. ” Startup Canvas.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. In fact, of all the management tools, OKRs are the easiest to misuse, overuse and abuse?—?many This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus. Reduce avg.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

From a stakeholder’s perspective, why should they defer a critical strategy decision to a product manager who doesn’t share their same goals and objectives? This is why product management exists?—?to Is the team delivering value every sprint? Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Combined with what we learned from writing Product Leadership the patterns are becoming increasingly obvious: Product teams around the world are all encountering the same handful of problems. Request: Obviously every company or product team will have context-specific factors that make their situation a little different.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I made my way to operations, and then into product.” Sima Banijamali – Sr. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. These humble pros do their job day in day out, designing products and teaching others how.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Citrix Ready team recently recorded a podcast with eG Innovations for their Tech Fusion podcast series. I now work at eG Innovations on the product team looking at both how we formulate the product and how we communicate about the product and explain the features to users and potential customers. In the past.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 10, 2021

The Citrix Ready team recently recorded a podcast with eG Innovations for their Tech Fusion podcast series. I now work at eG Innovations on the product team looking at both how we formulate the product and how we communicate about the product and explain the features to users and potential customers. In the past.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In this talk Product guru Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions. I’ve been a product guy for a long time, for most of my career. Maybe I’m a Renaissance man.

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