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The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Product managers feel that they are a part of the feature factory and not being able to concentrate on the vision and strategy of the product. Basecamp started off in 2003 as a tool that the internal development team built for themselves. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. Understand the bigger picture.

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In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration: Lessons for Business Leaders from Singapore’s Response to COVID-19

Business of Software Conference

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Without a clear vision that was centered on the problem at hand, the optics became the primary concern. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking.

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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

Craft a compelling vision. Elon Musk is always the exemplar I point to when people ask me about crafting a compelling vision. He is also constantly tying every initiative at both Tesla and SpaceX back to their respective visions. But he knew the countless benefits of creating such an inspiring vision. Always be selling.

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Why Product Strategy is More Often Reactive than Proactive

ProductPlan

When Apple introduced iTunes in 2003, it “fundamentally challenged how customers accessed music,” said Andrew B, a Senior Product Manager for deep tech and sustainability. A familiar example of a proactive product strategy is Apple’s iTunes Store.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

The BBC was one of the first companies to enable content syndication, and in 2003 product manager Alex Pressland started to look at where it could be used. She teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams.

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Customer Feedback Loop: What is it and How To Close it

Userpilot

Treat all your customer feedback as important, but you don’t have to act on all of them, especially those that don’t align with your product vision. NPS is a customer feedback strategy developed in 2003. Want to start collecting feedback in-app? Get a Userpilot demo and see how easy it can be to get started.

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Even More Amazing Speakers for #mtpcon London 2017

Mind the Product

Blade wrote the book on speech-recognition interface design (Addison Wesley, 2003), The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice and his work and thoughts have been featured in publications including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on media including TechTV, NPR, and the BBC.