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I’ve abandoned “MVP”
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader
coachees to stop using the term…
Richard Mironov
Rich coaches product executives, product management teams and revenue software organizations. He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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Recognizing Longevity
During my recent move, I was channeling Marie Kondo [https://konmari.com/] and
cleaning out old office stuff when I…
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Lying To Customers
I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
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…
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Delegation for Product Leaders
A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching
sessions: how much to delegate to…