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.    Now.   “ How hard could it be? 

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. So here are a few tips for product managers who may be pulling data science – and data scientists – into our product processes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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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 Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After more reviews, the second draft was focus on two generalized themes.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

2020 is only halfway done, but it already was a big year for Product Management. We all learned that Product Management is not just about managing products really. One of the most powerful things Product Managers rely on for growth in 2020,?—?when You don’t need to be a CMS PRO?—?leave

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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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

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. My productivity suffered. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. What I am asking you to do is to not be religious about any prescribed system.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. a product leader. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. They focus on the results that the team is looking for. Trends (still) impacting the newly converted.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Collaboration tools.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Besides his best-selling books Winning at New Products and Portfolio Management for New Products , he has published more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? In this episode of Inside Intercom, Brian Scanlan , our own Principal Systems Engineer, sat down with Will to talk about all things s taff engineer – what it is, how to get there, and what happens when you progress beyond a senior engineering role.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2023

Behavioral segmentation helps you filter out power users so you can proactively reach them with in-app modals to ask for reviews on sites like G2 driving word of mouth. Gain a better understanding of how customers interact with your product or service and make data-driven decisions about product development.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! In this article, we’ll explain what A/B testing is, why it matters for product managers, and how product teams should plan and run a test. Split testing starts with developing a hypothesis that you want to verify.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this article, we look at each product's key features, use cases, strengths, and limitations. TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. This allows product teams to group users who meet certain criteria. Dashboard in Heap.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management. On the other hand, new product concepts represent theoretical business that isn’t buying — at least not yet.

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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. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

It doesn’t matter if you’re managing a closed system desktop application or a SaaS web application , if people can’t use your system effectively, it will fail. As a product manager, this can be a daunting prospect and big responsibility to bear. Why is it so important to get your application right?

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever wondered why the humble 1 to 5 rating point scale is the secret weapon of Product Managers (PMs)? Marty Cagan, in his book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” , mentions the use of customer surveys as a tool for understanding customer needs and preferences.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Time is money, and I have yet to meet a product manager who asks for another meeting. Lack of interest.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

At some point, the product teams responsible for their cars’ onboard music functionality decided to remove those devices. These teams may have found the decision difficult because there are plenty of car buyers who still expected those features. Some of the product teams probably faced a backlash from their markets.

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