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“When Will We Finish This Migration So R&D Teams Can Work On Innovation?”

There’s a funny bit of split thinking that I often run into, and which came up in a recent CPO coaching discussion. It’s when we confuse…

5d ago

birds in migration formation

5d ago

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Customization Debt

There’s a pattern that I’ve seen at most B2B/enterprise software companies — and some B2C/mass consumer companies — that doesn’t seem to…

Oct 18

Customization Debt

Oct 18

Rich Mironov

Where Do We Find Joy?

I’ve coached scores of product leaders over the last few decades, and mentored hundreds of product managers… initial conversations are…

Sep 23

talented young woman playing violin in a concert hall

Sep 23

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Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors

In a conversation with Supra’s Marc Baselga and Ben Erez (podcast here), we touched on a core thesis of mine that I’d never written in long…

Aug 19

Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors

Aug 19

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My Next Word to Retire is ‘Prioritization’

I’ve been studiously avoiding the term MVP (not the , but the ) since at least 2020, since it causes endless confusion. It originally…

Aug 12

My Next Word to Retire is ‘Prioritization’

Aug 12

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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 —…

Jul 31

Fake (AI) Kindle Books

Jul 31

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Plausible vs Correct (AI)

In our rush of AI optimism, I’m seeing some echoes of past over-reaches.

Jul 23

Plausible vs Correct (AI)

Jul 23

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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 15-plus-year…

Jul 15

CPO Burnout

Jul 15

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Coalition-Building and Corporate Anthropology

As product managers, we’re trained to talk about benefits with customer/prospects rather than features. How will this product , rather…

Jul 8

Coalition-Building and Corporate Anthropology

Jul 8

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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 data…

Jun 20

Every System Has a Bottleneck

Jun 20

Rich Mironov

Rich Mironov

Tech start-up veteran, smokejumper CPO/product management VP, writer, coach for product leaders, analogy wrangler, product camp founder.

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