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Economics • 12 min read

“A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews)

Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…

Richard Mironov • 28 Jul 2022

2 min read

Paying It Forward

We’re going through another tech pullback. I don’t know how long it will last, or how deep it…

Richard Mironov • 16 Jun 2022

10 min read

Product Waste and The ROI of Discovery

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste: development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t…

Richard Mironov • 24 May 2022

Leadership • 1 min read

Product and Engineering Leaders: Shoulder to Shoulder (Talk)

In public — and when working with the rest of the executive team — VPs of Product Management and VPs of Engineering need to be fully aligned, aka “shoulder to shoulder.”…

Richard Mironov • 19 May 2022

Customer Thinking • 1 min read

Product Management of Complex B2B Products (Software + Hardware + Services)

In this webinar, we talked about the fundamental differences between software, hardware/physical products, and services product management.…

Richard Mironov • 12 Apr 2022

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Panel Discussion: Time Management for Product Managers

Panel discussion on time management for product managers (sponsored by Heap)…

Richard Mironov • 30 Mar 2022

Organizations • 9 min read

Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem

Product and engineering leaders tend to be analytical, and we think of prioritization as an algorithmic problem. Unfortunately, other execs see a different kind of problem...…

Richard Mironov • 26 Mar 2022