Agile • 3 min read Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap Recent conversations at several clients highlight an often-repeated set of magical thinking: beliefs by internal clients that development resources are…
Agile • 2 min read “What If Dev Doesn’t Think Product Mgmt Represents Customers?” Recently, I put up a small assessment tool for product management teams. This tool is intended to generate discussion and…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Metrics and More Metrics Continuing a discussion that was raised in a recent discussion between Tom Grant and Saeed Khan where they (we) made…
Organizations • 1 min read Product Management Assessment Tool PM leaders, such as VPs or Director of Product Management, worry about the health of their teams and processes, not…
Market Thinking • 2 min read Very simple customer savings/ROI template One of the first things I ask about with a new product team is “how will a customer justify paying…
• 2 min read P-Camp ‘10: Thinking Like an Agile Product Manager At Silicon Valley P-Camp ‘10 (March 13th), Rich Mironov led a session on “How Agile Changes Waterfall PM Processes and…
Organizations • 2 min read Third Annual Silicon Valley Product Camp The third annual Silicon Valley Product Camp (aka P-Camp) was the largest gathering of product managers ever! 550 product managers…
Market Thinking • 2 min read Market Facts, Judgment, Fallibility and Ownership Or how I learned to stop worrying and love market uncertainty. Every few weeks, I find myself itching to play…
Jobs • 1 min read A great SVPMA talk: "How To Get That Next PM Job" On March 5th, Shreyas Doshi had the SVPMA [http://svpma.org/] podium for a talk on “How To Get That…
Organizations • 1 min read New (old) role, new (old) website, new (old) city Many folks have noticed (and commented) that I’m again working and writing under the “Mironov Consulting” banner. Here’s…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Kindle version of “Art of Product Management” Rich Mironov’s “Art of Product Management” has been converted to Amazon’s Kindle format, and is now available for…
Market Thinking • 1 min read Santa Clara MBA Lecture on PM, Pricing and Roadmaps Prof. Kumar Sarangee [http://www.scu.edu/business/marketing/faculty/sarangee.cfm] of Santa Clara’s Leavey School of Business…