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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. I immediately donned the rose-colored glasses they handed out, and gobbled up the information that was presented. That’s when it got bad.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2018

The last of the four topics particularly caught my eye: “how do you increase the commercial acumen of product managers?”. The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. Our problem in the Agile community could be captured in “great ideas in terrible packaging, and annoyingly presented”. Or those stupid project managers, they don’t get it! Management doesn’t care about engineering!

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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. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2021

Product teams, when an influential stakeholder starts a sentence with “I have an idea, we should <new thing>”, or “I need your team to build <new thing>”, this one is for you… Photo by Vale Zmeykov on Unsplash What are <new thing> product requests? It might be a great idea, or it could be a terrible one.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Without the right approach and tools, software developers are left crossing their fingers, hoping their rollouts won’t end with a crash. Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. The technique is called a canary release.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He knows that, given the opportunity to present his case the likelihood of approval increases. Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. Time is money, and I have yet to meet a product manager who asks for another meeting. Lack of interest.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Engineers will begin the Coding process after some initial discussions with the product team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” Managing Stakeholders. The Project Manager’s Triangle. The Project Manager’s Triangle. Other key Ingredients.

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nulab

AUGUST 6, 2021

Software development is a similar story. You might be working on one app or website, but as new features come in and customer requirements change, dev teams often find themselves working on a shifting product. This is where software architecture diagrams can be a big help. 5 different types. Azure architecture diagram.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Before even considering a project for building in an upcoming cycle, the Basecamp team always shapes the work.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. 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.

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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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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. Manager screen In this interview, you'll speak with the hiring manager about your technical skills and domain knowledge. How did you learn it?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. 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 ).

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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. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

For example, someone purchasing a lead management product may be in sales. For example, our salesperson may use your software to track and organize leads. As a result, one of its primary customer personas is a Product Manager from a B2B SaaS company. User personas should tell you who the user is. What is their main goal?

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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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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And by doing this, it becomes easy to ignore (or, just as bad, hide) problems in your code that inevitably appear over time. And we’ll provide a constructive alternative for dealing with your team’s technical debt. Some product managers think of technical debt as flaws in their products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. It may be a one-page website or a Powerpoint presentation?—?test Where do you start?

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Deadlines can easily become impossibly heavy burdens that demoralize otherwise great teams. Also, in order to produce this output, you have a team/budget. Can we do this?

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All these questions boil down to the same thing: “ How long will that chunk of software development take? ”. As product managers it often isn’t our responsibility to provide an answer, but we’re frequently asked the question by our superiors or dependent teams nonetheless. Bad weather. Wrong turns. Design choices.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Your roadmap is both – but one is more important than the other – and product managers need to be able to view the roadmap both ways. As a product manager, it is imperative that you can view it both ways. What the Team Will Be Building. Your team is building features because they are trying to build solutions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every year, hiring managers receive millions of applications for various roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. Planning 2.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In software development, it's also not the most valuable player , which has the same initialism, but it's used on completely different areas. Going directly from the idea to implementation with minimum effort on design usually proves to be a very bad idea, regardless of the project nature. But how does one starts to build a MVP?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? 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.

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