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Reading the Room / Knowing Your Audience

I’ve written a lot about how we (as product folks) love to talk about how our teams build things: releases and sprints and backlog ranking…

Dec 14, 2024

Reading the Room / Knowing Your Audience

Dec 14, 2024

“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…

Nov 15, 2024

birds in migration formation

Nov 15, 2024

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, 2024

Customization Debt

Oct 18, 2024

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, 2024

talented young woman playing violin in a concert hall

Sep 23, 2024

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, 2024

Price Points Drive Organizational Behaviors

Aug 19, 2024

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, 2024

My Next Word to Retire is ‘Prioritization’

Aug 12, 2024

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, 2024

Fake (AI) Kindle Books

Jul 31, 2024

Plausible vs Correct (AI)

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

Jul 23, 2024

Plausible vs Correct (AI)

Jul 23, 2024

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, 2024

CPO Burnout

Jul 15, 2024

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, 2024

Coalition-Building and Corporate Anthropology

Jul 8, 2024

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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