Leadership • 6 min read “My CEO is a Finance Guy Stuck on ROI…” (combining a series of similar conversations) Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product…
Leadership • 3 min read What Do Product Leaders Worry About? I spend much of my time with product leaders – folks who manage teams of product managers – including at a recent…
Cross-Functional • 1 min read MTP Product Leadership Workshop, London Mind The Product [http://www.mindtheproduct.com/] hosted a one-day workshop for me in London, a day ahead of Product…
Leadership • 4 min read Organizational Thank-Yous Thanking people for their good work is one of the most powerful, least used tools we have at the office.…
Jobs • 6 min read A VP Product’s Checklist Individual product managers drive individual products or services. VPs of Product Management establish the broader context for getting great products/…
Innovation • 5 min read Four Laws Of Software Economics (Part 3) Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your…
Leadership • 3 min read 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…
Jobs • 4 min read What’s A Vice President of Product Management? My last two posts were about getting into [http://www.mironov.com/1st-pmjob/] product management and the climb to Director…
Agile • 3 min read Company-Wide Business Agility and the Soviets Until recently, most of the discussion around Agile has been strictly limited to software development teams. We focused on building…
Agile • 3 min read Adding Outbound to Cross-Functional Teams Lately, there’s been lots of discussion about whether Agile is strictly a software development methodology, without major impact on…
Agile • 3 min read More Chefs and Agile Restauranteurs As more of our clients have moved to agile software development, we’ve seen a growing need for business agility:…