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The Inevitable Failure of One-Shot Project Funding
Organizations that fund the building of software as one-time projects ("once we ship v1.0 of Product X, we…
Richard Mironov
Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
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Code Isn’t Product
A year ago I wrote about how AI would shift the bottlenecks in product development from the middle of the…
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Looming AI Runtime Costs
We've been focused on how AI is accelerating the creation (building) of software, substituting expensive development tools for…
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Mea Culpa
I don't always get it right. I complain about glossy war stories and universal product operating models, but…
Product Momentum podcast: Money Stories
ITX Corp. just released their latest Product Momentum podcast with me as the appreciative guest: “Using Money Stories To Communicate…
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“...Which Translates Into...”
One of my CPO coachees has a product team that recently made some major pricing and packaging changes – after a…
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Non-Code Moats
(lifted from a CPO coaching call this week)
We're not there yet, but may be close to the…
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MONEY STORIES
Communicating the Value of Product Work
DON’T BRING A BACKLOG TO A GUNFIGHT!
Product managers talk about features. Executives…
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Earning Our Keep
(this is an excerpt from my upcoming book on Money Stories)
As CPOs or product leaders, we often have conversations with CEOs about Return On Investment, which come in two wildly different contexts.…
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Money Stories @ Productized (video)
Video of my 17 Oct 25 talk at PRODUCTIZED Lisbon: "business cases are stories about money"
I unpacked…
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The Challenge Of Selling Care & Feeding Investments to Money-Side Executives
I've been writing and speaking and workshopping a lot about Money Stories (here, here, here): the very simple…
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Practicing the Language of Money (Video)
This talk is from Product Management Festival in Zurich (November 2025), part of a product-meets-finance track. A version of my…