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

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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I frequently come across rookie mistakes on real, commercial apps managed by well-run and well-funded organisations with sufficiently big design teams. The mistakes can be anything from oversight to negligence to laziness to just outright poor design decisions. This is the first in a likely series of such articles. Lazy Design.

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nulab

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A well-executed offboarding process can help the company retain top talent and prevent bad blood between departing employees and those who remain. As soon as an employee hands in their notice or the company decides to terminate, it’s time for the HR team to jump in and kickstart the process. Notify the team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

People influence the system around them, but more often than not people conform to the system within which they operate. I believe that an Agile transformation is first and foremost a transformation of people, and the system within which they operate. Can you imagine a team?—?that And so do people.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

The report allows teams to understand how users navigate their website or application, identify the top pages visited after the homepage, find out what causes friction in the user journey, identify top-performing pages and features, and analyze user paths leading to conversions.

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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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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. Xiaoxue Zhang , Uber Currently working at Uber, focusing on Machine Learning and Design System. I design systems. Joining Uber Feb 19.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The power of product analytics becomes apparent when any team at a company—marketing, product, design, engineering—can quickly ask and answer questions about user behavior and customer journeys. Strong data management ensures that data ported into an analytics system is clean, accurate and reliable. Implement a data governance system.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. What to do? [1]

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. They can also route customer conversations to the team best equipped to handle their questions and can even provide answers to simple customer questions like, “How can I add more users?”.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Some people want to believe that they won’t happen or don’t want to talk about them so that they don’t risk being seen as bad at their job. I’ve never seen a roadmap naming the bugs a team wants to introduce?—?but Failing to incorporate testing (manual and automated) into the development process. What Are Product Bugs?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. Our data team could’ve handled it, but the CLI interface would be an ongoing source friction and pain.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Yes, I changed the names of the functionality because the names don't matter.).

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Illustration from Intercom’s article about the values of designer-developer collab.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. We also host voluntary “turkey” demos where members of our team can share experiments that failed and what they learned from them. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team. Boy, were we wrong.

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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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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

Sure, the naming is different, but core issues are the same — injection, cryptographic failures, broken access controls, security misconfiguration, etc. The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security?

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nulab

APRIL 8, 2020

It’d be a complete disaster: when the system’s down, people can’t work. Developers need to be able to update and maintain their company’s systems without bringing the whole organization to a standstill. And, as containers become ever-more popular, dev teams need more efficient ways to manage their systems.

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Centercode

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Why does AI that performs so well in a lab underperform when it’s out in the real world? Earlier this month, a team of 40 Google researchers published a study about just that — and their investigation returned some vital insights into the challenges of developing machine learning. So what can you do about this?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 But along the way, we need to do all of the things that other companies do: run HR; handle payroll and payables; secure our app against cloud hackers; track support issues; model system scalability; etc.  Security monitors have complex "who do we trust to reconfigure our system?" " issues.  CRMs

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Usersnap

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re new to the bug tracking system, issue management or web development in general, you might wonder what a bug report is. For example, I’ve shown you 6 easy bug reporting tricks , answered the 4 W’s of bug reporting and gave you some insights on bad bug reports.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I could start comparing features and value statements, but there was a problem: I never met any of these names as part of our sales cycle. It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. The CEO wanted a competitive analysis. Not a single one.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Developing a decentralized social media platform involves harnessing blockchain technology to create secure and transparent networks where users control their data. It’s like moving from a crowded metropolis to a cozy village, where everyone knows your name. Think of it as designing your own digital home in the village.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Buckle up, here come my principles!

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? of the screen.

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Google, Facebook, and Apple are all household names. A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?” New technology variations and developments are part of ongoing improvements to your product’s value proposition.

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

So, at a previous company, we decided to fix the problem by putting a hard limit on the number of feature flags in the system: we could only have 150 flags in our monolith at any given time. Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. For example, at a previous company, we had a team responsible for building frameworks.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly. while the user name does have a unique id, the team and content do not.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? It’s marketing. The good news?

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team. Use a color-coded system for a handy visual aid. Not all friction is bad. Positive vs negative friction.

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