Mikhail Elychev
Welcome to my table: three apps for the games I love, my character sheet in place of a CV, and where to find me.
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Western Setup
Lays out a game of Western Legends step by step, with every expansion and variant.
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Flying Solo
Play Wings of Glory WWI solo: the app flies the enemy airplanes.
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Who am I?
The guessing party game, played online. Send a link, nothing to install.
Character sheet
- Name
- Mikhail Elychev
- Class & level
- Product Manager 9
- Background
- B2B Enterprise Software
- Species
- Human
- Alignment
- Chaotic Good
- Experience
- 16 years in identity security, 9 in product management
- Execution modifier +2 score 14
- Adaptability modifier +1 score 13
- Endurance modifier +3 score 16
- Analysis modifier +3 score 16
- Insight modifier +4 score 18
- Communication modifier +2 score 15
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Inspiration(yes)
+4 Proficiency bonus
Skills
Execution
- Proficient: +6 Delivery Scrum, Kanban, LeSS; 40+ releases
Adaptability
- Proficient: +5 Prototyping Python, JS, Moqups
- Proficient: +5 AI-assisted PM Claude Code, RAG, MCP servers
Analysis
- Expertise: +11 Prioritisation Customer Demand Score, kill/keep calls
- Expertise: +11 Identity & access PAM, MFA, SSO, SAML, OIDC, PKI
- Proficient: +7 Product strategy vision and roadmap
- Proficient: +7 Requirements JTBD to user story map to PRD
Insight
- Expertise: +12 Customer discovery JTBD canvas across banking, telecom, energy
- Proficient: +8 Market & competitors competitor comparisons, analyst news
Communication
- Proficient: +6 Stakeholders sales, engineering, enterprise customers
- Proficient: +6 Pricing & packaging tiered enterprise licensing
- Proficient: +6 Presales & demos 100+ webinars, RFPs, white papers
Initiative
+1
Speed
30
Equipment
- JTBD Canvas. Job story, forces of progress, alternatives and selection criteria, one per opportunity.
- Demand Scorer. Weighs every feature request by the customers behind it, not by the loudest one.
- Knowledge Base. ~4,000 documents on product, UX and security that Claude Code searches over MCP.
- Market Radar. An agent that reads ~40 industry sources each week and posts a digest to the team chat.
- Backlog Search. Semantic search across every backlog board that catches duplicates before a card is added.
- Quote Calculator. Turns a tiered price list into a ready quote, instead of pricing each deal by hand.
- Competency Matrix. Skills by domain and grade with observable behaviours, for hiring, reviews and growth plans.
Proficiencies & languages
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Tools
- JTBD, USM, PRD, Whiteboards, Moqups, Claude Code, Python, JavaScript, Docker, Linux
Personality traits
Starts every brainstorm with the problem and its context, not with a solution and its architecture.
Ideals
Not every problem deserves a place on the roadmap.
Bonds
The team: it matters as much as the product.
Features & traits
- Founder. Took Axidian Privilege, a privileged access management product, from MVP to the company’s top revenue line.
- Party of Five. Leads three business analysts, a product designer and a technical writer.
- Veteran of 40+ Releases. Two enterprise products, one of them serving 400,000+ user seats.
- Customer Demand Score. Designed tier-weighted prioritisation that replaced “loudest customer wins”.