Blunt guide to what a manager really does: you’re the company’s face. You represent the business. Every word sets policy.| Yusuf Aytas
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 models and product operating systems. (Oh, my!) But many of our colleagues and audiences are deeply uninterested in what happens in the kitchen. Another| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams (pushing us to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization [http://www.mironov.com/4laws1/]) and that all of the profits are in the nth copy (thus The Law of Build| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
There’s a pattern I sometimes see at software companies, particularly those targeting enterprises or on the long march moving their installed base from on-premise to SaaS. The go-to-market materials present a glowing picture of well-planned products, but underneath there’s a jumble of mismatched pieces and arcane product history| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Building on a post from last July about Incompatible Worldviews… Almost every Go-to-Market-side enterprise stakeholder I interview tells me that their product team is unresponsive: that folks rarely get anything back after submitting an (urgent, strategic, well-considered) ticket through the company’s agreed-upon enhancement request process. That the occasional response| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes