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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups.

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Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value

bpma ProductHub

And refinement requires tough decisions that balance different stakeholder perspectives of value with how value changes over time based on evolving market conditions and customer need. She provides coaching, training, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries. Taking a Holistic View of Backlogs.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a product manager. Google Adwords. Apple iTunes.

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Is Product Management Under Fire?

The Product Coalition

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Aligning PMs to development teams, products, segments or markets. Coaching/mentoring/training plan. 4] Working With (Other) C-Level Execs.

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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

Mironov Consulting

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As one of the first 35 employees, her first order of business was to launch Pinterest internationally and close the Series C financing. 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. Kate Leto, Product Coach.