#5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization

My guest in this conversation is Rich Mironov, who is known as the "product mensch" in Silicon Valley, and for good reason. Rich is a 30-year veteran of product management at multiple enterprises and startups that have gone public who now consults as an interim VP of Product helping companies to get their product organizations working at top notch.

Over the last 18 years, he's worked with over 120 technology companies including Yahoo!, Wealthfront, WhiteHat Security, Wind River, Euclid Analytics, Pushpay and Strategyzer. He's an unofficial advisor to many Chief Product Officers and senior execs throughout the world of technology, and lecturer at business schools around the world.

In short, Rich has deep experience in product leadership and is one of the few people I consider a true expert at not just product management, but the leadership and structure of product organizations. If you are at all involved in building a company or working with a product organization, trust me, you want to go deep into this man's world!

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Links & resources mentioned

• Connect with Rich:

  • Website

  • Twitter

• Tandem Computers

• Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

• Shuttle diplomacy

• Rich's talk at INDUSTRY on product org/team structures

• The Glengarry Leads

• The Agile Manifesto

• Psychological safety

• The Fearless Organization, by Amy Edmondson (re: psychological safety)

• Outcomes Over Output, by Josh Seiden

• Christina Wodtke - episode & website

• Marty Cagan on outcome based roadmaps

• Rich's article on product management in data science

• "Hot Dog, not Hot Dog"

• Sally Foote - AI at Photobox

• Impostor syndrome

• RailsCon 2014 talk on Imposter Syndrome - Nickolas Means

• Inception (movie)

• Calendly scheduling tool

• Teresa Torres

• Jared Spool

• Tristan Kromer

• Daniel Elezalde