Agile • 4 min read I’ve abandoned “MVP” After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
Leadership • 2 min read Hiring a Head of Product (Video) The Business of Software [https://businessofsoftware.org/] conference team brought me back for their 2020 conference, run remotely rather than…
• 1 min read Webinar: Building Soft Skills as a Product Leader Scott Baldwin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/benry/] invited me to join his Age of Product Excellence webinar series. We…
Innovation • 8 min read Hiring a Head of Product Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 180 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18…
Innovation • 1 min read Podcast: Bridging the Product/Engineering Gap I was thrilled to join Marcus Blankenship for this episode of his podcast [https://marcusblankenship.com/bridging-the-pm-gap-with-rich-mironov/]. Marcus is a…
Innovation • 6 min read Business Cases Are Stories About Money Last week, I had three separate conversations with VPs of Product about business cases… initially framed as “do you have…
Leadership • 1 min read Podcast: Cross-Functional Soft Skills for Product Leaders I joined Richard Chen of Product Gym [https://productgym.io/] for a podcast about product management, soft skills, and understanding…
Innovation • 7 min read Nandini Jammi and Check My Ads I’ve been following Nandini Jammi’s truth-affirming work at Sleeping Giants for the last four years, which is suddenly…
Leadership • 3 min read Recognizing Longevity During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and cleaning out old office stuff when I…
Jobs • 6 min read Lying To Customers I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Product Management • 2 min read Podcast: Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences Sean Flaherty & Paul Gebel produce the Product Momentum podcast [https://www.productmomentum.fm/]. They invited me to join this…
Jobs • 6 min read Delegation for Product Leaders A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to…