Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc. Sam created a diagram to help demonstrate the benefits of organizing teams by value stream as opposed to code base. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product Management University

JULY 31, 2023

The career paths for sales engineers (SEs) and solution consultants (SCs) are wide open due to the blend of business and technical skills, sales skills and positioning expertise required to succeed in this role. Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same? Are Sales Engineers and Solution Consultants the Same?

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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. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

 (I mostly see this proposed by technical leaders who come from non-revenue development organizations – those building software for internal use by companies in another business such as banking or airlines). " Code creators own quality.* become a professional services/custom consulting company.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. This is best done by having regular, collaborative strategy workshops as well as attending sprint review meetings.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Think of Net Promoter Score (NPS) software as a tool to measure your customers’ feelings about your product, and categorize them based on their level of loyalty (promoters, neutrals, and detractors). It is tailored for product teams who need to send NPS surveys inside their app and analyze it without technical expertise.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. Part 1 was about individual work. I admit it.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. The team also agreed to initiate a weekly meeting to review and clarify requirements and to estimate the user stories. Long standups.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Laura’s got a couple of podcasts of her own: What Is Wrong With UX and Engsplaining.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode. Who is Rambo ?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. BBC Interviewee interrupted by his children on air.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. They spent a few years in another job, maybe as an analyst or consultant. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either. John doesn’t have that.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, which operate on a subscription basis and are centralized and situated on a remote cloud network, are increasingly popular with businesses for a variety of factors, including flexibility and affordability. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. What Is Saas? — Brief

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

2] software product companies should almost never make changes for a single customer , no matter how big the deal.  But  But many GTM folks come from software services companies whose bread and butter is building exactly what one client will pay for.  The  Can Tech Support help us focus?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

It's time for performance reviews. The performance review problem helps them realize the source of this disconnect: How can we focus on aperson's solo contributions to the work when we want to encourage and retain collaboration? First two jobs: software developer plus project management responsibilities. Became a consultant.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Sebastian’s Product Coaching Framework piece at Mind The Product. Suggest a guest to us here.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Similarly, the world of technology is no stranger to its own stream of techspeak. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 features.  Commitments

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. I once ran an infrastructure platform that needed six to nine months of paying down technical debt, and let me tell you: seeing those goals get crossed off, one at a time, was what kept us going during the dark days.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

fintech firms are using powerful technologies to make financial services digital, accessible, and affordable for a greater number of individuals and businesses. These fintech companies and startups have earned a spot on this list due to their impressive technology and socially conscious approaches to finance.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Kim Scott’s book, Radical Candor. Email sponsor@mindtheproduct.com for more information.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

Software buying is undergoing a transformation, as is the case with many industries in the post-pandemic market. The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. . ‘Gresham’s Law’ at Britannica.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. Assume that the team members want to do their best. Be honest and open.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.  These are mostly seen as reasonable and technically sound.  Sales Creating software is a craft , not an assembly line.  (Everything eventually breaks.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 2, 2022

Teams don't refactor as they proceed and they get bloated code. Those features need more tests and more review. Now, their technical debt has come due. The post See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 3: Some Component Teams, Some Feature Teams appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. There were so many seniors to help us juniors learn how to be an employee and how to be a good consultant. Tweet This. Congratulations!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Robin Dunbar’s Social Circles feature in The Guardian.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 10, 2020

I used the image from Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation as a way to think about the feedback loop realities in a serial approach.). I recommended various ideas with “testing” in their names (TDD, BDD, ATDD). I suggested that first, you see your feedback loops. (I We need managers to help build resilience.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

Hamilton published this work in 2016 after a career of working with over 200 clients as a strategy consultant, including Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe. A business that leverages counter-positioning adopts a new, superior business model which the incumbent does not mimic due to anticipated damage to their existing business.

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