Market Thinking • 2 min read A Brilliantly Awful Customer Experience How ineffectual can a multinational be? [https://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.mironov.com/awfulux/&text=How+ineffectual+…
Product Management • 1 min read What do Directors and VPs of Product Management Do? (PCampSV) At Product Camp Silicon Valley, 14 March 2015 (pi day!), I led a highly interactive discussion about what Directors of…
Leadership • 4 min read Stone Soup and Leadership I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup [http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034]…
Product Management • 1 min read Bangalore product tour (Feb 2015) Hosted by Confianzys [http://www.confianzys.com/], I visited Bangalore from 19Feb to 26Feb for a combination of workshops, public…
Innovation • 6 min read Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation? Imagine that you’re a tech company executive setting up an innovation program. Most of your initial focus is on…
Market Thinking • 3 min read “Free” Sells (Business Model Required) I spent a week in early December with the Brainmates team in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, waving the flag for…
Agile • 4 min read Conway’s Law for Product Organizations Conway’s Law is an old but useful idea: the organizational structure of software development teams is reflected in the…
Jobs • 2 min read Product Manager Shortage: Suddenly Sexy? At the moment I post this, there are 1839 open product management jobs in San Francisco/Silicon Valley. (Check here…
Leadership • 1 min read Why Silicon Valley Continues to Rock the World (Stockholm Market Insights Conference) I was honored to keynote Tolpagorni’s annual Market Insights conference: What: Market Insights Conference Where: Stockholm, Sweden When: 13/…
Product Management • 1 min read Good, Better, Best (Product Camp Seattle) I was excited to deliver a keynote at Product Camp Seattle Where: Russell Investments Center, 1301 Second Ave, Seattle When:…
Organizations • 1 min read Why You’ll Eventually Need a Product Manager at Your Startup (SF) Event: “Products That Count” meetup When: Weds, Oct 22 Where: Yelp, 140 New Montgomery Street, SF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very early stage…
Leadership • 3 min read Mentoring Product Managers: Case Method as Well as Tools I worry about how we grow product managers. For me, it’s more about mentoring than in-class lectures and templates.…