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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…
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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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…
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Coalition-Building and Corporate Anthropology
As product managers, we’re trained to talk about benefits with customers/ prospects rather than features. How will this product…
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Every System Has a Bottleneck
Software architects know that every system has a bottleneck.
Imagine an analytics app where the slowest step is uploading massive…
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Moving Up to Product Director
In a course I’m running on moving up the product management organizational ladder, we’ve spent time comparing/contrasting…
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Money Talks: Aligning Product Strategy + Business Goals
I was thrilled to join ITX's Product Momentum podcast for an episode called "Money Talks: Aligning Product…
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In Scope for My Role?
Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do…
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Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth And Revenue
I joined the Heap.IO product team for a podcast on "Leveraging Product Analytics to Boost Growth and Revenue&…
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Being Empathetic
In the middle of a CPO coaching session last week, I recalled the passing of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobelist who…
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Podcast: More 2 Marketing
I joined Susan Walsh on her More 2 Marketing podcast, where we had an hour-long conversation around:
* project funding vs.…