Product Spending and Implied Strategy
Following on my last post on product strategy/prioritization
[http://www.mironov.com/strat-priority/] and pie charts… here’s another…
Market Thinking
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Appallingly Unfortunate Mobile Ad
The New York Times ran a heart-breaking 7500-word article
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-last-day-of-her-life.html?_r=…
Prioritization Requires Strategy
I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director
[http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers
Agile development teams need tools for tracking the creation of software. There are dozens of well-known, purpose-built offerings including Jira,…
A Strategic Tool Chain
Scott Sehlhorst [http://tynerblain.com/blog/about-the-author/], an incisive
product thinker and occasional collaborator, made this strategic map of
disciplines…
Your Next Developer Costs $1M/Year in Revenue
As tech product managers, we’re often pitching the need for larger development
teams. There’s an implied revenue obligation,…
A Brilliantly Awful Customer Experience
How ineffectual can a multinational be?
[https://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.mironov.com/awfulux/&text=How+ineffectual+…
“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…
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…
5 Things To Do In Your First Week with a New Product
…and 5 more for the first month.
If you’re already a product manager and stepping in to take over…
Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my
customers as guys. IT managers and…
Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or
business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…