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 • 5 min read Site Licenses and Other Real-World Intrusions We recently finished a major pricing exercise with a start-up in the enterprise software space: tuning up their prices, improving…
Market Thinking • 3 min read How Well Can You Predict The Future? It’s been a very tough quarter for economic forecasters, quota-carrying sales teams and CEOs. The sudden downturn even caught…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Understanding the Opportunities of Buy-Side Economics As CEOs of our products, we product managers have a lot to do. Traditionally, this has included “build-versus-buy” decisions. The…
Product Management • 5 min read The Accidental Agilist Over the last few months, we’ve repeatedly heard about product managers who come back from customer visits or vacations…
Organizations • 3 min read A Planetary View of Agile Product Management Product management is involved with most internal groups, but not equally and not all at the same time. PMs need…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Burning Your Boats I spent 2006 consulting to small tech companies, including seven months as an interim executive. I also nearly co-founded a…
Market Thinking • 5 min read Crowding Out Tech Support This week, there’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere and popular press about “crowdsourcing” — empowering crowds of…
Market Thinking • 3 min read Avoiding the Post-Course Correction As early as 1961, Soviet and American space scientists planned for mid-course corrections: those tiny bursts of rocket power designed…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Owning the Gap Product managers are usually the people who “own the gap” for their specific products: identifying all of the missing or…