Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales one-offs. Professional services companies take on projects for individual clients, and price each engagement for profitability: cost plus 50% or 70% or 100% margin. Let’s dig in….

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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

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. Landing pages can be set up with no cost or hassle with a tool like Squarespace or Wix. It’s marketing.

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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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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Group Product Managers are responsible for developing a group of products from its inception to market launch while also leading cross-functional teams toward achieving the company’s objectives by their product roadmap. As such, your ability to source information and use it to develop a product strategy is important.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Here’s why…. What To Do?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?” Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Understanding your consumers’ behavior and needs well through methodical market research is vital for informed decision-making when it comes to your product roadmap. Why should you do market research?

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to a report by F5 , the past year has witnessed 133% growth in application modernization. . That’s not to say that legacy technology isn’t a relevant factor anymore. According to Stripe’s The Developer Coefficient , engineers spend 33% of their time dealing with technical debt. Building cross-platform capabilities.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 26, 2021

There’s a lot of details, but the main takeaways of this article are to learn: how to increase product development ROI by utilizing customer feedback methods of collecting and responding to customer feedback the software for managing and analyzing the voice of customers in context. Most recommended customer feedback software.

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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. Let’s look at some of the factors you need to consider when planning for enterprise software products rather than consumer products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma.

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Usersnap

APRIL 25, 2019

Countless times projects progress so slowly only due to poor ticket management. If you are using Usersnap, your team, clients or customers definitely are submitting more bug reports due to the convenience of capturing screens and annotating in-product. Easily create a product roadmap with personalized view. Status: Open.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. Well, software is not one of them. Table of Contents.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 25, 2016

While every product team I've worked with leverages customer feedback to inform product decisions in some way, most fall short of designing their customer feedback loop to maximize the benefits to the product team of gathering, recording, and synthesizing feedback. Catalog Your Sources of Feedback.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hopefully, the product management tools we’re going to cover will help you out! We’ve split the tools into different categories, so feel free to jump ahead to whichever kind of product you need. The categories of product management tools are: Prototyping and UX (Userpilot, InVision, iRise). These are must-have for any PM.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

The reports you get out of these platforms are keys and deliver real insights on product performance. Paul is a product manager running an 8-people product team for a B2B web application in Seattle. Most commonly emails, SMS, or engagement platforms like Intercom. I’m sure you are aware of them already. Using surveys.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

From understanding the analytics landscape to mapping capabilities with KPIs and integrating new tools with your current stack, we know that choosing a product analytics solution can be overwhelming—not to mention, time-consuming. How is Mixpanel different from marketing analytics tools like Google Analytics?

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As your newsfeed was becoming more and more cluttered with grim reports of the coronavirus spread, you may have inadvertently missed some exciting news from the world of product. Remote & Cross-functional Product teams. Building your own product adoption tools can set you back a lot of money. Analytics & Experimentation.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 18, 2019

How should I manage my roadmap?” “Do What does this have to do with software? If something is not working properly while you are developing functionality, or something you just built has now broken something else, it’s not a bug. Then I prioritize my roadmap work. Do product managers need to know how to code?”.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Apptentive’s annual Mobile App Engagement Report serves as a baseline to help app publishers across categories understand their app’s engagement strengths and areas for improvement. And today I am super excited to share some of the key insights from our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report. I am Christy Culp.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

One of the hardest challenges in product management is getting people aligned – especially if they have different reporting lines and objectives. Roadmaps are stories. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Is there a difference between developing a product for enterprise and a consumer? Although in both cases your software product is used by humans, an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. But take another class of enterprise software product?—?server because bad experiences can lead to poor adoption?—?but

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. ” Jonathon: You mentioned earlier that good UX humanizes technology. Show up with an idea.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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