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…
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 • 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 • 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…
Jobs • 7 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 [https://www.pivotforhumanity.com/], Phil Wolff [https://www.linkedin.com/in/philwolff/] and John…
Leadership • 7 min read What Do Product Leaders Do? My last post [https://www.mironov.com/ladder/] briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from…
Jobs • 5 min read The Product Leadership Career Ladder In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers)…
Leadership • 10 min read How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are…
Leadership • 7 min read “I’ll Quit Unless…” (This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our…
Innovation • 5 min read How to Make Time for Customer Interviews & Validation I got a lot of good responses from this recent post about the need to frequently talk directly with real…