Innovation • 1 min read Appallingly Unfortunate Mobile Ad The New York Times ran a heart-breaking 7500-word article [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/magazine/the-last-day-of-her-life.html?_r=…
Agile • 5 min read Prioritization Requires Strategy I just spent a couple of hours with a mentee, newly promoted to Director [http://www.mironov.com/director/] of…
Market Thinking • 4 min read Why (Agile) Program Management Tools Don’t Help (Agile) Product Managers Agile development teams need tools for tracking the creation of software. There are dozens of well-known, purpose-built offerings including Jira,…
Leadership • 1 min read A Strategic Tool Chain Scott Sehlhorst [http://tynerblain.com/blog/about-the-author/], an incisive product thinker and occasional collaborator, made this strategic map of disciplines…
• 1 min read Silicon Valley View of Product Owner/Manager Challenges (Agile@Cork) What: Agile@Cork [http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Cork/] monthly meet-up Topic: “Silicon Valley View of Product Owner/Product Manager Challenges”…
Leadership • 4 min read Your Next Developer Costs $1M/Year in Revenue As tech product managers, we’re often pitching the need for larger development teams. There’s an implied revenue obligation,…
Market Thinking • 2 min read A Brilliantly Awful Customer Experience How ineffectual can a multinational be? [https://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.mironov.com/awfulux/&text=How+ineffectual+…
Product Management • 1 min read What do Directors and VPs of Product Management Do? (PCampSV) At Product Camp Silicon Valley, 14 March 2015 (pi day!), I led a highly interactive discussion about what Directors of…
Leadership • 4 min read Stone Soup and Leadership I just gave a copy of a children’s book called Stone Soup [http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Soup-Aladdin-Picture-Books/dp/0689711034]…
Product Management • 1 min read Bangalore product tour (Feb 2015) Hosted by Confianzys [http://www.confianzys.com/], I visited Bangalore from 19Feb to 26Feb for a combination of workshops, public…
Innovation • 6 min read Who Is Your Internal Customer for Innovation? Imagine that you’re a tech company executive setting up an innovation program. Most of your initial focus is on…
Market Thinking • 3 min read “Free” Sells (Business Model Required) I spent a week in early December with the Brainmates team in Sydney and Melbourne Australia, waving the flag for…