For a long time, I've been asserting that most* B2B revenue-side executives can’t hear anything we say unless it includes a currency symbol. Sentences lacking a $ or € or £ are inaudible. That includes explanations about how we build things: roadmaps full of boxes and project names; agile methodologies; analytics that show how smart we are; inspirational lectures about product operating models… mostly wasted words that our GTM leaders are not interested in.| richmironov.substack.com
I joined the Productized team for a podcast that included a discussion of speed vs.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
If you haven't been a consistent reader of Scott Sehlhorst, now is a good time to start.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I was thrilled to share a recent conversation with Marc Baselga & Ben Erez on the Supra Insider podcast!| richmironov.substack.com
FYI I’m joining Bruce McCarthy’s CPO Studio for a live session on Weds 6 Aug, Noon Eastern… a 90-minute open discussion about roadmaps, the Language of Money, and building influence in the C-Suite.| richmironov.substack.com
At a recent Product Weekend gathering of CPOs, we talked about product leadership values and what lifts our hearts. That turned into a conversation about what we fight for: broad principles and concrete actions that earn us our place as product leaders. Here was my take:| richmironov.substack.com
I'm still somewhat of a skeptic about "replace our developers and product managers with AI" discussions (see my AI-washing from 2023), but want to take the other side of the argument for a moment.| richmironov.substack.com
In most of my CPO coaching engagements, we eventually come around to the problem of “politics,” usually framed as frustration with C-level peers doing unexpected or unreasonable or department-centric things.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
A very thoughtful piece from Eryk Salvaggio on "What Does It Mean to ‘use’ Generative AI?" that helped me with a nagging issue.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’ve been mostly offline since moving to Portugal 6 weeks ago.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Steering out of my normal lane with a grateful nod to Jason Knight's most recent podcast with Sam Greenwood 💖🚀 about our responsibilities (not just as product folks) when the broader situation is so fraught...| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
ICYMI, Sid Shaik pulled me into the Products That Count podcast to talk about:| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I joined Mark Stiving’s pricing podcast for an episode on estimating customer-side value and turning that into prices (and then revenue).| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I joined Sid Shaik on Products That Count’s podcast to talk about taking B2B software company from zero to a billion dollars - or at least enough to excite investors.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’m part of many discussions where tech company execs try to apply Return on Investment (ROI) tools to make hard choices about what to build, or where to invest costly-and-scarce development resources.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Murray Robinson & Donna Spencer let me join their No Nonsense Leadership podcast for an extended discussion of corporate organizations, politics, how executives think/behave, servant leadership, and making change by *showing* rather than telling.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
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.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
ICYMI… I’ve refreshed two of my courses for January 2025| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
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 delivering a new (or re-architected) platform and pushing the very last customer off the old version to free up teams that keep it alive.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’ve coached scores of product leaders over the last few decades, and mentored hundreds of product managers… initial conversations are typically around how to get things done; how to understand and work complex organizations; ways to structure teams and boost collaboration;| richmironov.substack.com
In a well-run organization, each role has a single orientation; they either support individual customers or they support the market.| richmironov.substack.com
It’s pretty easy to tell if Sales is hitting its goals. (“Are we on track to hit this quarter’s revenue?”) Slightly tougher for Marketing (top of funnel metrics or qualified leads). HR tracks hiring, employee churn and internal sentiment. Engineering tends toward semi-vanity productivity metric| richmironov.substack.com
