Economics • 1 min read June 22-23, Rochester NY: ITX Product + Design Conference 2023 Where: Rochester, NY in person When: June 22/23 Register here This conference celebrates the power of UX design, development…
Economics • 1 min read Webinar: Reducing Product Waste (and achieving great outcomes) When: Thursday 11 May at 17:00 UK / 18.00 CEST / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT Host: Product Focus…
Organizations • 11 min read The Chocolate Cake Problem In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies…
Economics • 1 min read Interview: How to Prevent Product Waste UserTesting's Mike Mace interviewed me for The Center for Human Insight and produced this long-form post. We covered a lot…
Product Strategy • 9 min read Major Migrations Are An Organizational Challenge, Not Just a Technical Challenge I’ve sat through planning for scores of major B2B migrations, and implemented a half-dozen of my own. Usually the…
Agile • 1 min read Podcast: Agile & Sales-Led Development I joined Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson on their No Nonsense Agile Podcast to talk about the problem with sales-led…
Customer Thinking • 5 min read Why Product Request SLAs Fail Building on a post from last July about Incompatible Worldviews… Almost every Go-to-Market-side enterprise stakeholder I interview tells me that…
Economics • 12 min read “A Working Request Process Should End in YES” (aka Incompatible Worldviews) Enterprise Sales/Solutions teams see the world one customer at a time; Product/Development teams see cumulative market impact and aggregate technical demand. These are fundamentally in conflict...…
Portfolio Management • 4 min read Watering Down SaaS ARR I been doing occasional product due diligence [https://www.mironov.com/services/#duedil] this year for a few PE/VC…
Executives • 7 min read Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy (this builds on my June difficult discussions [https://www.mironov.com/difficult/] post) As good product folks, we know that…
Innovation • 6 min read 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…
Innovation • 7 min read 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…