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Reading the Room / Knowing Your Audience
I’ve written a lot about how we (as product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things:…
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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“When Will We Finish This Migration So R&D Teams Can Work On Innovation?”
There’s a funny bit of split thinking that I often run into, and which came up in a recent…
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Customization Debt
There’s a pattern that I’ve seen at most B2B/enterprise software companies – and some B2C/mass consumer companies…
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Podcast: Joy in What We Do
I joined Sheev co-founder Ben Maynard at Lisbon's Productized Conference for a podcast episode about my keynote talk…
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Oct 2-4/Lisbon: Productized
I'm thrilled to join the Productized team for their Lisbon conference on Oct 2-4. And to widen my…
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Where Do We Find Joy?
I’ve coached scores of product leaders over the last few decades, and mentored hundreds of product managers… initial conversations…
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"Business Cases are Stories about Money" (Video from Product at Heart)
I joined an International all-star group of speakers and workshop leaders for Product at Heart in Hamburg on Sept 11-13.…
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Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors
In a conversation with Supra’s Marc Baselga and Ben Erez (podcast here), we touched on a core thesis of…
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My Next Word to Retire is 'Prioritization'
I’ve been studiously avoiding the term MVP (not the concept, but the acronym) since at least 2020, since it…
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Fake (AI) Kindle Books
Internal audiences, especially go-to-market execs at software companies, are demanding that we add visible AI features to our products – primarily…
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Plausible vs Correct (AI)
In our rush of AI optimism, I’m seeing some echoes of past over-reaches.
1. Personalizing/humanizing systems: using “he/…
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CPO Burnout
Cold take: most of the CPOs I know are unhappy, frustrated, burnt out. (My selection bias: mostly B2B/enterprise, primarily…