Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Filed under “whiny excuses from product management for missing delivery dates.” So IMHO, calling something an MVP invites chaos. Support needs installation guides, training sessions, FAQs, bug reporting categories.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. It’s no wonder Product Managers are so well-compensated; Hired’s 2017 Global State of Tech Salaries survey found that Product Managers’ average salary of $138,000 was the very highest of any tech role.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

It is an important resource for the product management community. Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances. that are field-specific to product management?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I attended the conference to represent product.careers , a project I launched last year to raise awareness of Product Management as a career path, with a particular focus on undergraduates and graduates. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing. And not all trends matter.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to How do I build alignment?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

This evidence-based approach to managing sales performance certainly helps us to make better decisions about how we develop our sales teams and how we best use the talents available to us. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. That’s one approach to problem-solving. This is how IDEO was born in Palo Alto, California. .

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Independent educators help train users in niche applications of the product. Are you intrigued? Book the demo!

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. Google “storytelling”, and you’ll find numerous posts on how to train a salesforce on storytelling techniques. Storytelling.

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ProductCraft

AUGUST 7, 2018

When his boss noticed his performance, he was asked to train everyone on the team, which ultimately landed him a product manager position. Product Managers = Problem Managers. Steve believes that product managers should really be called problem managers. Is it time for a product manager manifesto?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. In departments like sales, where understanding tools like Salesforce and Hubspot is critical to professional success, I've also seen SaaS companies use 3rd party product tours to train (or re-train) staff. Benefits of product tours for SaaS. Make it interactive.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 15, 2016

Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to teach them about improving teams and their work. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. Why Product Needs to Care.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

SaaS companies use walkthroughs to onboard new users, highlight secondary features , and train new staff. That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. I hear you.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Onboarding software is typically used to educate new users , demonstrate new features to advanced users, or train new hires. By “activate,” I mean experiencing the value of the product in a first-hand, direct way, such as creating your first task on a task management tool. Let’s get into it. Employee onboarding.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

If the users don’t use the product actively then whom are we managing the product for, is the question we need to constantly ask. Position your product in the magic quadrant and determine where your product lags. I typically advise the below format. Support process, including training etc. Product/Functional i.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable. Yes, this is counter intuitive.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company. The Problem.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. So today I want to talk about managing by our outputs versus outcomes. So, I’m going to start with, yesterday we learned from Whitney about OKRs – that is one way of trying to manage by outcomes.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. I wanted to start by asking you if you could talk a little bit about your career in product management.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. Is it technically feasible?” I’m joined today by Hope Gurion. Hope Gurion : Hi, everybody.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

Of course, that’s important, but they are also not in a position to assess the medical prowess of a doctor. If you’re not prepared for that growth, it can quickly become overwhelming to try and manage the increased pressure on your support team without making adjustments to your support strategy.

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