Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

What’s Enterprise? Another fuzzy line divides SMB (small/medium businesses) from enterprises. Enterprise generally starts around $20k/year, and really gets going at $50k/year. . $50/year B2C, SMB and Enterprise companies not only behave differently, they are structured differently. What’s B2B?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

Information 98

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. With over 300 people in total?—?50–60

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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eG Innovations

DECEMBER 7, 2022

SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on the managed systems organized in a management information base (MIB), which describe the system status and configuration. Three significant versions of SNMP have been developed and deployed. How eG Enterprise Supports SNMP Monitoring? of a server or device.

Enterprise 52

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Split

MAY 31, 2022

When teams embrace testing, they’re more innovative, agile and in sync with ever-changing customer needs. Experimentation also reduces risk, because teams know how the product will be received before it’s rolled out. Yet even if they understand the value of experimentation, some enterprises hold back because of some common concerns.

Customer Experience 52

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Continue reading to find out what a modern embedded analytics solution is and how it can replace your legacy system by decreasing operational costs and increasing annual revenue. Table of contents: What is a legacy system? What are the major issues with legacy systems? What Is a Legacy System?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Was Steve Blank (the person who first coined this phrase) trying to tell us that before building a company, a team, it is important to first verify where and how a product will fit into a given market? Part of product development is understanding how it will be supported. And again, my confusion grew.

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Gainsight

MAY 23, 2023

This aligns with the vendor’s view of Customer Success, particularly among its largely SaaS customer base, as something that should permeate across the enterprise. It’s not just a team. In other words, you’re talking to Sales, you’re talking to Customer Success, you’re talking to the support team.

Enterprise 59

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Userzoom

JANUARY 3, 2018

What a design system is, why you need one, and how to build it. Poor communication between teams. These consequences of large teams just can’t be avoided, right? Just because you’re expanding your product team and/or scaling processes doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice quality or consistency. Not exactly.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? Finally, its product usage , workflow, and form analytics help teams make informed decisions and optimize the user experience. Or bad, because it adds unnecessary complexity? Pros and cons of using WalkMe What are WalkMe strengths and weaknesses? Enterprise – custom pricing.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.

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The Product Guy

JULY 17, 2017

Be it documents, photos, marketing, sales, or product, it’s all moving away from installing software on an operating system to just creating an account for a web-based service. While it sounds simple, it is the most critical and often the most ignored part of the product development cycle. People use products, people develop products.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

What is ‘Enterprise Class’? Enterprise class’ is a buzzword that refers to applications that are designed to be robust, flexible, and scalable for deployment by a large organization. When any product is developed, there are assumptions made. 2 Integration with Existing Systems and Tools. 4 Simple Licensing.

Reporting Tools 52

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

Customer Experience 124

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

As Modus Create CEO Pat Sheridan succinctly puts it in his article on the top digital transformation trends , “As enterprise leaders, we need to figure out how AI augments and supports overall digital initiatives before blindly investing.” to “What should we consider?” Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software Review 93

Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results. ” But we need good results, not just less work for me. .”

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

  (My selection bias: mostly B2B/enterprise, primarily 15-plus-year veterans, many current or former coachees).    ( Just this once! )   CxOs uninterested in how development actually works, or how product folks add value - versus engineering value.    But a few thoughts: Recognize this as systemic. 

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

Data Visualization 128

Data Visualization Weak Development Team User Testing Customer Feedback 128

eG Innovations

MAY 3, 2021

Many of our customers are large enterprises with critical highly-available and secure infrastructures. This means that they spend (as do we) a lot of time proactively investigating and stress-testing systems, indeed we and many other vendors also provide tools within our products to assist in “kicking the tyres”. WAN Emulation.

Data Visualization 105

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of specials and “small requirements.”    The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Far away.    Hard to see. 

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Developers are Also our Customers.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

Product Research 143

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Onboarding systems are no exception, especially when you’re trying to replicate on-site conditions in an online setting.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. Implementing an enterprise AI project involves capital investment and various operating costs that should be evaluated before launching any initiative.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

Reporting Tools 145

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. In-House Development If you are selling to technical teams, this is a major competitor. It would be the list of “usual suspects” when talking about the e-commerce search space.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 But along the way, we need to do all of the things that other companies do: run HR; handle payroll and payables; secure our app against cloud hackers; track support issues; model system scalability; etc.  Security monitors have complex "who do we trust to reconfigure our system?" " issues.  CRMs

Analytic Tools 52

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Buckle up, here come my principles!

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