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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…
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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“Product Management is Not Optional” (ELSIG, Palo Alto)
This 21 Aug 2014 talk was for SV-Forum’s Engineering Leadership SIG (EL-SIG): a
monthly forum where engineering leaders share…
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Is Product Management Obsolete? (SVPMA, Palo Alto)
Topic: “Is Product Management Obsolete?” at SVPMA [http://svpma.org/]
Speaker: Rich Mironov
When: Weds, Aug 6, 2014
Where: JCC,…
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Tuesday is Female Pronoun Persona Day
As a long-time B2B infrastructure product manager, I’m used to thinking about my
customers as guys. IT managers and…
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Enhancement Requests are Personal and Political, Not Just Analytical
As deeply data-driven, analytical product managers (or product owners or
business analysts or development leads), we’d like to pretend…
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The Power of a Few Customer Calls
{I recently had a long chat with a mentee who’s just moved into product
management from a developer role.…
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We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here
When software companies are short of developers (or architects or test
automation engineers or DevOps experts or technical writers or…
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Motivating Development Teams
I just had a really interesting working session with an LA-area product
management team about how to motivate developers. Rather…
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What kind of politics is involved in a product manager’s job?
I love Quora [http://www.quora.com/Rich-Mironov/answers], so spend a fair amount
of time there. This particular Q&…
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Get a Mentor, Be a Mentor
There’s been a lot of good chatter in the PM-osphere about the need for
mentoring. Getting your first product…
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Video: Scaling Up Agile Product Teams (at Cisco)
Cisco generously hosted this April 4th talk on their IPTV network, excerpted
below.
Length: 1 hour
Topic: Product Managers, Product…
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Is Apple the new Microsoft?
Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP on April 8th, 2014 after 12 years,
which I know because I occasionally…