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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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Time goes by, runway decreases. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Rosie is the best. ??

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

Nir Eyal is an author, speaker, and consultant known for his expertise in behavioral design and habit formation. ” Nir’s work focuses on how technology and products can be designed to create positive habits in users. How did Nir Eyal begin his career?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In the mission to solve your users’ most significant pain points, a user journey template can be your greatest asset. Sure, user personas are helpful. But they don’t answer where the sources of friction are coming from as your users explore your product. What Is a User Journey? Also known as: Table of Contents.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. You say potato, I say WTF.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We all want maximum value for minimum effort or cost. In times of an economic downturn, it is very tempting to offer less for lower prices. But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. But which one is more important? I decided to meet B.,

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. These are complex deals on the customer side with buying committees, unique integration requirements, internal champions for each competing vendor, and reputational risk for choosing the wrong product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I have experienced this many times on both sides, as the receiver and the critiquer. Who has it?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

Customer engagement plays a critical role in your company’s growth and depends on your customer experience. As Steve Jobs once said: “ You have to start with customer experience and work your way back toward the technology, not the other way around. ”. What is Customer Engagement? Table of Contents.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. During my professional career, I’ve spent a lot of time with clients who simply didn’t need my services. But more often, it’s a client who is not ready to develop software. So I wrote this article.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Few people have more experience with this move than Linda Lin , Director of Customer Success at the revenue intelligence platform Gong. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges. Moving upmarket means larger customers and higher revenue, but it’s not without its challenges.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Many companies think they know what users or customers care about. They may have even talked to potential customers. They have personas with descriptions. But here’s the thing.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Short on time? To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

Our blog post guides you through the maze of AI research tools. We’ll uncover the hurdles of current AI-powered research tools and spotlight the most promising ones to keep an eye on. Let’s dive in and navigate the future of research together! Read on to get a sneak peek at our research team’s conclusions.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. This part is about shortening feedback loops. Neither did the team. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. It was time to see their feedback loops. See Your Feedback Loops.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. User onboarding. Let's get started! What is UserGuiding?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding. Time pressure: The urgency to bring a product to market leads to shortcuts.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But what about the customer on the opposite end? Negative personas accurately portray the users least likely to find value in your product. So it differs from personas which are mostly product users. A negative persona helps you improve customer fit by revealing customer profiles that lower your retention rate.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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UX Studio

JULY 4, 2018

As a consequence, they open up interesting new territories in UX research, too. VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences. We collected some best practices for those looking to learn more about or just getting started with VR user testing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Use statistics to quantify the impact.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2020

So far, we've discussed the lever of canceling a project at any time with the serial lifecycles in Part 1. We added another lever of looking for more feedback with iterating over the requirements in the iterative lifecycles in Part 2. Teams have another lever. Then, the team (or whomever) creates an architecture.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. Everyone is excited about pitching (and closing) live customers, even if we only have only mocked-up slideware so far. Here’s why….

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Users are recruiting your product to reach a specific outcome in their lives — whether that’s catching a flight to reunite with their families or using a productivity app to meet a deadline and impress their boss. But despite how relevant the topic still is, we’re not just here to talk about the ideal onboarding experience.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. The value of product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

ODI shifts focus from generating ideas to understanding and addressing customer needs, leading to more successful products and innovations. Let’s gain perspective from the knowledge and experience of one of the most influential people in product innovation, Tony Ulwick. He started exploring what makes innovation successful.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. The role of customer success teams.

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Userzoom

APRIL 6, 2018

When it comes to user research, you won’t get a more honest and unique insight then when observing and interviewing users in their own natural environment. I caught up with Steve to discuss the challenges, joys and horrors of user research in the field as well as his new book.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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