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…
Leadership • 6 min read How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray I often have conversations with CEOs of software companies or software-powered (ecommerce) companies who aren’t steeped in how software…
Leadership • 7 min read Difficult Product Discussions with CEOs I’m sometimes pulled into difficult discussions with CEOs, where I’m trying to describe systematic product-side failures that directly…
Innovation • 6 min read We Can’t Schedule Innovation, But We Can Schedule Discovery Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to…
Leadership • 4 min read Shoulder To Shoulder I talk with CPOs/VPs of Product almost every day. And with CTOs/VPs of Engineering every week. A frequent…
Leadership • 4 min read The Hungry Man Parable I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is…
Agile • 4 min read I’ve abandoned “MVP” After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term…
Innovation • 8 min read Hiring a Head of Product Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 180 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18…
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…
Jobs • 6 min read Lying To Customers I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to…
Jobs • 6 min read Delegation for Product Leaders A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to…
Jobs • 6 min read Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics? Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh, Phil Wolff and John Sebes, I’ve been thinking about tech products that are…