UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. Context: the most important tool to empower your team.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing? Taking a bifurcated approach to product development and innovation is more vital than ever.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Features include networked note taking, voice transcriptions and integrations with calendar tools like Google Calendar and Outlook. Lyfts engineering teams explain how they do it.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. To meet customer expectations for consumer-like software usability. To share data with partners.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why….

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing? Taking a bifurcated approach to product development and innovation is more vital than ever.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built. It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. This gives each platform a unique twist and makes each replatforming project unlike any other.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. And what a year it has been!

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills. Big data analytics is a growing global market expected to reach $550 billion by 2028.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Product strategy helps with feeling overwhelmed because it Helps your product team see how your product contributes to your company’s goals. Given that product strategy provides product teams with so much guidance, why does it seem like your product strategy is more reactive, and is that ok? Guides your product decisions.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. We have to develop an appetite for generating fresh ideas. Embrace diversity and give voice to every team member. It is the only thing”.

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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. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. Dealing With Culture.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.) Experienced salespeople will come back with….

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

It’s the tool I get asked about the most. 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. Reduce avg.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

HackerNoon reports PMs outpaced average job growth in the US by 5X in recent years!) From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. You’ll also need: UX design experience. Leading a diverse team.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. These books will help you develop the skills that lie under the surface to help you become a more well-rounded product manager and leader.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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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. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The British dystopian series, Black Mirror envisions our worst nightmares about technology. Relations between technology and design. Undoubtedly, as data-driven systems become a bigger part of our lives, we also notice more when they fail. Technology is based. They made names and photos front and center on the platform.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

The Basics Put simply, a roadmap is a living document that shows how you plan to develop your product. For what it’s worth, we conducted some research into this topic and we found that 33% of SaaS companies we surveyed reported that the whole company used the roadmap. It also reassures them that you’re actually developing the product.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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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.  Work

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UX Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Avoiding the 7 most common mistakes founders make when building a design team and culture in their startups. Intro If you’re reading this article, you’re probably at a point where forming a competent design team for your business is essential. Firstly, congratulations! You’re about to make one of the best investments for your business.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”    That spills over into your group, since your team leans in a lot to help. 

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The role of a Scrum Master is primarily one of servant leadership?—?or or “true leadership”?—?and A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. and coaching. It is not a mere management role.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I have spent more than 15 years with UX design agencies. This puts me in a position to tell endless stories of the heroic work top UX agencies do day after day to fight for a better digital world. Today I’m going to give you an overview of the top UX design agencies. Let’s jump right in and look at the top UX agencies list.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. Each function (Engineering, Product, and Design) has their own reporting structure and organization. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Developing product vision.

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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. Here’s my gross simplification.

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