User:RichMironov

Rich Mironov is a serial entrepreneur, veteran of several technology startups, and software product management thought leader. A graduate of Yale and Stanford Business School, he’s best known for his long-running Product Bytes blog which became "The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator." He's written and spoken about the how agile software development intersects with strategic product management.

Early on, Mironov wrote COBOL at HP, managed communications products at Tandem, and directed Sybase’s web.sql team - the first commercial solution for dynamic linking of web pages with databases. He was an early employee of iPass and first VP Marketing at AirMagnet. Mironov is currently CEO of a stealth company in the social/mobile game space.

Mironov founded the first PCamp, an unconference for product manager and product marketers which has since gone worldwide as ProductCamp. He chaired the first product manager/product owner tracks at the Agile Alliance’s annual conference, and was on the board of SVPMA. Three of his perennial pieces are "Parenting and the Art of Product Management", an early cloud computing riff "Grocers and Chefs" and "Magical Thinking and the Zero-Sum Roadmap".

Mironov currently lives in San Francisco.