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.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

Have you been intrigued by the position of Technical Program Manager? But this doesn't mean you can't prepare for and ace your upcoming technical program manager interview. The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Currently, the company splits its TPMs into two groups. Feeling overwhelmed?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. First, the developers create a wheel. a skateboard.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Focus Only on Team Level Agile Transformation initiatives sometimes focus exclusively on individual teams, neglecting the broader organizational context.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. You’re burning cash and daylight, building up a legacy of technical debt and features that aren’t moving you in the right direction. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. TL;DR Survey bias occurs when feedback deviates due to the influence of a surveyor or respondent leading to inaccurate feedback collection. Different types of survey bias Survey responses may become biased due to various reasons.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it. I have grouped the examples into three types of design portfolio introductions based on length. I design systems. Joining Uber Feb 19.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. At best, if you are properly equipped, being a PM is like being on an epic quest with a group of adventurers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. There are no guarantees.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Others celebrated birthdays and had weddings via Facebook and Zoom. which are places of public accommodation.” [2]:

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. While Userpilot is developing funnel analysis functionality, you can achieve the same results by tagging and tracking Goals. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2024

Our review presents a variety of analytics platforms, from privacy-focused to feature-rich, ensuring you’ll find the right tool that respects user data, integrates easily, and scales with your SaaS business. The platform’s no-code capabilities make it accessible for teams without extensive technical expertise.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the base level, it often comes down to credit (an individual did XZY) vs collaboration (a group did XYZ). As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. This means that everyone is all in on every investment.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary. out of 5 stars.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

What it is: Trello is a project management tool that’s intended to keep groups organized, but it also works well for personal to-do list tasks. If you’re a fan of the kanban system , this will become your go-to method of organization. Task Management Tools for Product Managers. Good Ole’ Google Docs .

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback. Top brands orchestrate journeys seamlessly thanks to technology.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Last week, after many months of development, I was happy to launch Haystack into the world finally. Since it’s creation, it has become stable for (mainly software) products to launch to a tech-centric audience. It takes into account comments, reviews and how long/active people are that upvoted. 2 weeks before launch?—?Those

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. We also use that time to work on an incubator project in small teams comprised of offering managers, developers, designers, and researchers. Technical experience is not required. Tell us about yourself.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Breakthrough, disruptive or radical innovation are all more dramatic and often involve challenging the existing business model or introducing completely new technology. As a result, it helps you develop only the features that they need and avoid falling into the feature fallacy trap and creating the consumption gap.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A spate of bad reviews can be a serious obstacle to growth, retention and customer acquisition. You should care about negative feedback, because your customers – actual and potential – care about it: 89% of people look for new suppliers after just one bad experience ( Oracle ). Or is this is a bad fit user?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Despite her mother’s experience and prestige as a tenured faculty member at a major medical center, she felt the mental health systems weren’t putting the family at the center of their care, dismissing a lot of her insights and concerns. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Onboarding systems are no exception, especially when you’re trying to replicate on-site conditions in an online setting. Putting people first.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Winning new business is critical for any savvy product manager: a new client onboarding checklist template can help you systemize your path to a successful customer onboarding process. As you’d expect, a poor signup flow can dramatically impact the whole client onboarding experience. Miro’s punchy messaging does a great job.

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