Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. We’ve been crunching the numbers, analyzing the trends, and distilling them into bite-sized insights so that you can have the tools you need to thrive as a product leader.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Having to write progress reports may seem like a nuisance with all the other things you have to do, but they’re essential to ensure smooth project delivery. TL;DR Progress reports provide information about the status of the project: the work completed, work still to be done, and potential challenges.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

In a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Intercom undertaken in April 2021, Drive Conversational Experiences for a Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , we learned that only 37% of support leaders and decision-makers are satisfied with their organization’s current digital channels and solutions. Sound familiar?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

To keep up with these changes, last year we released our first Intercom Customer Support Trends Report. The report highlighted how support teams were adopting conversational support tools to meet rising customer expectations and a flood of inbound queries. Last month, we published the second edition.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Are you looking for crucial technical program management skills to become a successful technical program manager? Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. Well, you’re in the right place.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. David Marquet’s book ‘ Leadership is Language ‘ is a great source of ideas for helping promote the right mindsets.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. According to insight from Refinitiv , 40% of firms expect to increase their investment in AI solutions moving forward.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. A report from McKinsey supports this, predicting that AI brings in as much as $13 trillion in economic activity by the year 2030. That said, landing a job as an AI product manager is not easy.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. As this journey requires cross-functional cooperation, it’s valuable to leverage solutions that promote release orchestration. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

TL;DR Data democratization is the process of simplifying how data is stored and managed to help non-technical employees access it easily and make data-driven decisions. This increases collaboration across the organization and fosters communication with non-technical stakeholders. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 14, 2022

With that in mind, Gainsight has sponsored a report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services , based on surveys with 275 business leaders who have built digital products at their own companies. . Underpinning successful PLG efforts is the extensive use of data-driven PX solutions. Here’s what we found.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Instead of sending status reports to stakeholders or having steering committee meetings, the individuals are now actively involved in progressing the product and they actively contribute to its success.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

APRIL 9, 2019

Innovative technology is the solution. But technology is also a challenge, as too many tools are inefficient and too few tools are incomplete. As an example, TIBCO ® Data Virtualization is pre-integrated with TIBCO’s flagship BI tool, Spotfire ® , but it also works well with Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. We've got your covered.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

This change has been primarily driven by increased access to analytics tools like Userpilot that help businesses achieve product growth. TL;DR A product analyst is a professional who uses data analysis and insights to evaluate and improve the performance of a product or service. What is a product analyst? What do product analysts do?

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Market Leadership: Amplitude stood out to me because it’s disrupting the digital marketplace–dominating the segment focused on digital product makers. I was impressed with the vision our CRO, Matt Heinz, and executive leadership outlined to assemble a world-class sales organization. What motivated you to join Amplitude?

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. As a result, he says, “We need to understand and quantify the risk profile of new solutions using generative AI.”

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Product managers also have essential soft skills such as communication, leadership, empathy, collaboration, understanding customers, and strategic thinking. That said, this position demands proficiency in both technical and social areas within the role. This allows you to gain practice in using essential social skills.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. A cloud architect is technically a subset of a solutions architect roles responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions to an organization's business problems.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn.   Not everything that’s reported as a bug is a bug – or should be fixed.  Customers become a professional services/custom consulting company. Bug or feature?  

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. That report goes to the top-level leadership. Over time, we have gotten more sophisticated tools to identify different topics. ” These tools are much more helpful in analyzing large amounts of text.

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Modus Create

JULY 8, 2022

Feature teams enjoy a healthy mix of freedom and solution-level agreements that produce a meaningful mini-application with a lifecycle of its own. . Applications or websites serviced by large or many teams can use micro frontends as a way to organically distribute areas of responsibility. 9 Common Problems Solved by Micro Frontends.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture. Siloed transformation efforts at the team level can result in suboptimal outcomes and fail to address systemic issues that hinder agility at the organizational level.

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Nulab

JANUARY 29, 2021

Another season has come and gone and that means another release of G2’s leadership reports. We at Nulab — the creators of Backlog and Cacoo — are pleased to announce that we’ve collected a sizable number of mentions in the G2 Winter Reports between these two tools. .

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 features.  Commitments

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. This exposure to different cultures, generations, and belief systems has shaped my understanding of what true cross-functional collaboration looks like. Challenge #2: Leadership versus Decision-Maker ?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

They hold qualified women back from climbing career ladders and reaching a senior product leadership position. Yet, they’re still stubbornly absent from the leadership teams in far too many organizations. The Numbers Don’t Lie in Senior Product Leadership Positions. Paycheck Problems for Senior Product Leadership Roles.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Deliver exceptional customer support using AI and self-service resources. Anticipate future customer needs and work proactively to find solutions. Cultivate a customer-centric culture from leadership down. Userpilot is a product growth platform with feedback, analytics, and engagement features. Brand24 dashboard.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 19, 2021

Technical debt accrues when we consciously make short-term decisions that we suspect are not correct for the long term. Technical debt incurs many kinds of costs. I likened it to a balloon mortgage where it often comes due, all at once. ” The customers might well look for another solution to their problems.

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Gainsight

JULY 21, 2022

Although some admins can support a data-driven customer success strategy on their own, many more are burdened with analysis and custom report requests. Data democratization removes the middle person responsible for building reports and dashboards and allows end users to get the data and analytics they need on demand.

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