Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

Without consistent tracking, brands risk: Missing shifts in market dynamics Misalignment with evolving customer expectations Inability to defend against competitive threats Weak ROI justification for marketing efforts Who needs brand health tracking? campaign planning, market entry, customer segmentation).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Guided by fundamentals and first principles — Tesla transformed the trajectory of automotive technology. Trust Trust is the currency of product teams and product roadmaps.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Maintaining templates, guidelines, how-to references and resources.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Increase Your Referent Power. It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. To do this, we will analyze effective strategies and refer to some key successful studies. Its influence is growing across three key areas: innovative technologies, automation of design tasks, and personalized user experiences. No one can denythat.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fast-growing’ in the sense of this article refers to startups of at least 200 staff strong. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. Over the course of her long tech career she has worked at Yahoo! She’s also due to deliver a workshop on how to design product teams with intention at MTP Engage Hamburg.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

You don’t need a technical degree to be a strong PM. The product management profession requires varying degrees of technical skill, but it’s not one-size-fits-all and certainly does not require an engineering-based degree. do not interface with developers in a technical way). Go beyond NPS as a core KPI.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. In 1988, Hewlett Packard (HP) conducted an internal review of their software development processes and set a target to improve their code quality tenfold. Create a code review checklist. Introduce code review metrics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2025

App engagement refers to how users interact with your mobile app, beyond just downloading it. Whatever these metrics tell you, the good or the bad, that’s only half the story. One highly-reviewed option is Userpilot, an all-in-one solution for driving user engagement across channels. What is app engagement?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Its a behavioral red flag that reveals user frustration caused by poor UX issues that might otherwise go unnoticed. Encountering a bug or technical issue: A broken submit button, a form that wont process, or an interactive element that doesnt behave as expected will often trigger rage clicks as users attempt to resolve the issue themselves.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Moreover, this area has become extremely lucrative due to lockdowns and restrictions of the pandemic. It attracted more people to the online live streaming and now it’s projected that, due to streaming, by the year 2025 users will spend more than $17 billion in social apps annually. Is it worth developing a live streaming app?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. When tackling a technical design for a system, make sure you always understand the data models first.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Expect account-level distrust, bad blood, and a search for who’s to blame.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That’s not to say that legacy technology isn’t a relevant factor anymore. Multiple industries employ outdated software in their core operations and only consider modernization when a critical technology in their stack becomes unsupported (for example, an older version of Java or PHP is sunsetted). Paying off technical debt.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

Delta is the next generation of beta testing, leveraging Centercode technology to automate time consuming tasks while increasing user engagement and test results. It’s that your team expected something else. Some teams treat it as a final round of QA, focused on confirming fixes, catching bugs, or checking technical details.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

That means you shouldn’t aim for zero churn but to drive revenue up to a point where it surpasses the amount you lose due to churn. Thus, it’s crucial to track your churn rate to develop strategies to improve engagement and reduce churn. Customer and revenue churn are the 2 types of product churn.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again. Take Stock Regularly.

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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. Others celebrated birthdays and had weddings via Facebook and Zoom. District Judge Robert Scola Jr.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . To be clear, I am not talking about what is commonly referred to as “Scrum-ban”. Over the years I’ve tried a few different approaches to help teams get started.

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Indicative

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. It empowers each team across the organization to make data-driven decisions, with access to reporting and ad hoc analysis. . It empowers each team across the organization to make data-driven decisions, with access to reporting and ad hoc analysis. .

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. So hiring managers must assess candidates based on a few interactions, a curriculum vitae, and some reference checks. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. We caught up for a chat that ranged from how to stand out in a crowded marketplace to why it’s a bad idea to judge your product’s success simply based on how much time people are spending in it.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 28, 2016

The internet and social media in-particular provide an endless supply of content, but it took me awhile to develop a strategy that in-fact resulted in me efficiently discovering the most relevant content. Techmeme provides the best algorithmic aggregator of the top headlines in the world of tech. The First Round Review.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

Especially in B2C or B2B2C markets where our tech is part of a long value chain: perhaps our software helps some employee collect data to tune a service that improves delivery of some consumer product… Creating real-world value is a multi-step process involving many players. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. While FullStory works for mobile apps, the web/mobile hybrid platform doesn’t cover every framework, particularly with non-native tech stacks (e.g.

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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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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. That expresses how updated you are in the field, what references do you have, and what’s your knowledge level.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. But, we don’t live in that world.

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