Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Rich Mironov wrote The Art of Product Management and is a voice for the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Cross-functional leadership.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. The products are easy to use and provide immediate results for customers. The competition components are beyond technology.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 14, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Founders should be cautious about hiring product managers too early in the startup journey. Wait until after achieving product-market fit to avoid conflicts and unnecessary complexity in decision-making, especially if the founder remains the primary driver of product direction.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 29, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. Leadership. You need to be able to explain why you go in one direction and not another, you need to consider how you want to act in the market (context specific) as well as the more universal doctrines. Wardley maps map onto the same cycle. The Wardley map.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 15, 2021

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. Each department wants to hire in its own image. Let’s unpack.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If it took Marty almost 10 years to address this important aspect of product leadership, no wonder many product leaders don’t understand that this is part of their role. Whether you are doing it yourself or as part of the CPO Bootcamp , remember that your role as a product leader is not to lead the company’s product.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to get into product management – This newsletter discusses whether a product management role is right for you, how to kickstart your career, and the essential skills you need to have.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Slack lives on the phones and desktops of over 10 million users, and we’re lucky to be joined by Ilan Frank , their VP of Product. Openview is arguably the first to coin the phrase “product-led growth,” and Operating Partner, Kyle Poyar , will present a model and examples of how to use usage-based pricing to rev up your PLG strategies. .

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 25, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one But don’t ask them to make the product decisions for you, either explicitly or implicitly.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Sorry, Facebook, but I just don’t use it as much.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.  Especially at the leadership level, this calls for more empathy, pattern recognition, and cross-functional goal alignment.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When everyone on the team shares this foundational understanding of our personas, everyone can feel empowered to make decisions without explicit sign-off from myself or leadership, which allows us to move faster. I’ve learned that the best way to build products that people love is by constantly listening to and understanding customers’ needs.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an and during?—?the

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