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

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

In IT outsourcing, software service providers often introduce the role of Proxy Product Owner (PPO) to compensate for the lack of product leadership. It only seems natural to want to help the client to move forward with product development and keep the engineering busy implementing the defined requirements.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Shortly before the official launch party, one nervous engineer decided it might be worth doing a few integration and acceptance tests on the ship. Of course such things are common on any failure to launch a product as well.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Leadership and upper management will likely set the direction of the company and the products you're building. Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board.

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. This needs to happen at every level. Chiefly: What makes a release successful?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Test your assumptions, always. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

A leadership story of Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

You are constantly considering potential and real problems, testing out solutions and evaluating those solutions for effectiveness. In a nutshell, yes, you can transition from being a UX designer to product management if you are prepared, have the right mindset and are willing to develop the right skills for the job.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple. Unsubscribe anytime. Transcript.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

have they stood the test of time? Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). With a Scrum team, you may be more focused on the execution of solutions.

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Amplitude

MAY 25, 2017

Product Analytics is one of the most high leverage roles in a company that’s investing in software development. However, most companies simply don’t have enough data literacy on their team to interpret the data available to them. Expertise in setting up high leverage tools for their team. How would you investigate why?

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2019

Misconceptions of the role of product management Many engineers that I’ve met have been skeptical of the real value that product managers bring to a team. It’s our job to make sure that we’re pitching projects that are enticing to our engineering team. The way to get teams to really care about whatever work is most important to users.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Finally, a lot of teams – especially in larger organizations -- are misaligned on priorities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

The best performing product managers are candidates who are inquisitive, methodical, and mindful of their own limitations or weaknesses. They're skilled at formulating solutions to complex product problems and establishing precise and measurable development goals. Reduced development time by 15%. 2019 - Sep.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships helps you develop the “soft skills” that will get your product delivered. The easiest way is to read a new book each week.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Nearly all Facebook interns have the chance to ship code or help develop actual projects at the company within days of their programs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful. TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Often, product management teams are trying to do too much. When I talk with executive teams, it’s clear what keeps them up at night. Selling more is a sales issue, and building is a development issue, and planning is somebody else’s problem. Walking back commitments the sales team made. I’m busy enough already.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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