Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. It’s becoming the bare minimum. Start early.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. Without empowerment everything slows down and the people who are further away from what’s happening with customers make all the decisions. Point Towards the Mountain.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

By this he means that he doesn’t spend his time directly advocating for Amplitude products: “Although I think we have an amazing product, my role focuses on the surrounding systems and ‘culture’.”. Is it me communicating best practices or is it them inviting me in because they’re a prospective customer?”. It’s a very subtle thing.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Short on time? Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It also led to winning a Microsoft internal prize, and it was really the first time I could call myself a leader instead of a manager. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

“Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” We talk about value and business cases and backlogs instead of bluntly saying that “this customer request is an outlier, so I’ll never put it into my plan.” It certainly feels that way.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. And the timing couldn’t be more urgent.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? To make things even more confusing, junior or first-time developers may not understand the terms used at different companies to describe software engineers. Junior engineers are typically freshly graduated or candidates with little previous experience.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. 4 One Door at a Time. Sachin Rekhi, founder and CEO at Notejoy , a collaborative notes app for teams, writes about capturing user feedback. So do your customers.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Healthcare professionals are already juggling demanding full-time roles, leaving little room for extensive research. This is precisely where larger organizations require trusted advisors—experts who can navigate new technology initiatives, assess their value, and determine whether they’re truly worthwhile.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level. But I also agree with Adam, there might be some custom work or tooling that you need. You don’t do that a little bit at the time.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals. So, it starts with this, like, you have to kind of put yourself in the shoes of a customer.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

With the rising frequency and sophistication of cyber threats, safeguarding sensitive customer data and protecting against potential breaches is of paramount importance. Protecting this data from cyber threats is crucial for maintaining customer trust and complying with stringent data protection regulations.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Recently, I did a little experiment. After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. That turned into an agency because everyone wanted their version customized. Because he is. of leadership roles.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

Our design system standardized the way we create experiences globally Global adoption and implementation of the design system. Each team had its own interpretation of the brand’s digital guidelines to support their business, product, and user needs. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 20, 2019

Overly time-consuming? During difficult times, it’s easy to focus on what’s wrong. You can write them when you’re on hold, while listening to a podcast, or during your train ride. I wrote all of my interviewers a handwritten note after several Atoms took the time to interview me here at Atomic. Too much work?

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. A junior product manager typically has some work experience under their belt already and can come from any background.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We find that Product Owners and development teams need advanced skills and training in backlog refinement. According to studies performed by Jakobsen and Sutherland, product backlog items that have been properly refined in time for sprint planning can double a team’s productivity. [1]. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs. Conclusion.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As product management becomes such an in-demand, lucrative career option, companies are carving out markets with offerings that enhance a product manager’s job to build and optimize customer-centric products. X4 The Experience Management Summit, Salt Lake City, UT. hours of networking time. ProductCon, San francisco, cA.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

More than anything, we’re grateful for our customers, staff, and stakeholders. Customers look to Atlassian for innovative products that take the “work” out of teamwork, and we’re committed to coming through for them. Wins for enterprise customers. Download our Q2 FY22 earnings report here. Get off of onto my cloud!

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

If you’ve seen me speak before you know how it really it’s a bonding experience for everybody in this room. And these are the times where I’ve spoken at BoS at different times and here we are right now. Few customers, happy. So we’ll try to find some other titles during the talk. It was my dream.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Organizations are increasingly facing data localization compliance regulation and customer contracts that can include clauses such as “may not move data to other countries without prior agreement”. Our MSP partners often operate on tight margins and must increasingly demonstrate tangible value to customers.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. The CTO or VP Engineering usually owns architecture and code, but also is in on all the customer pitches and maybe the investor pitches. Lots of shared titles.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

which has been taking all my time. 28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace (guest essay by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb) I’ve been brainstorming and talking to Lenny, who spent time at Airbnb doing much of the same kind of work that I did at Uber. Fascinating infographic: Top grossing media franchises of all time.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

In a recent conversation, we laughed about how tough it is to stay up with the AI Emergence, and I pointed out that it’s almost a full time job just keeping up with him , let alone everything else happening in the AI world. RedPajama ‘a Data-1T LLM training set. ” And cost savings isn’t the only driver.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

which has been taking all my time. 28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace (guest essay by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb) I’ve been brainstorming and talking to Lenny, who spent time at Airbnb doing much of the same kind of work that I did at Uber. Fascinating infographic: Top grossing media franchises of all time.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Mikey is here to help you help your employees succeed with processes, tools, advice, and war stories from his experience as an entrepreneur. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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