Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As another year draws to a close, it seems appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of 2017, assess the progress we’ve made as a community, and examine how we’ve pushed the craft of product management forward. As good product managers, we’re learning just as much as we’re teaching. The Things Nobody Tells You.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

When you’re trying to prioritise a new product or feature it is easy to get lost in the mountain of information, models, frameworks and theories an available. This post aims to provide a fast, practical guide to product managers working on a new product or feature. I got lost just trying to write this article.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 15, 2019

Tooling for your product team is a necessity. It often gets overlooked or tools are quickly chosen because we are so focused on the challenges in our own products. This post lays out the different categories of tools your product team needs in the stack and provides some example tools in each category. Roadmunk , ProdPad.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In my last blog, we talked about being a PM in a Startup. What to expect as a Product Manager in a Scale-Up: How to strive as a Scale-Up PM: Be aware that you’ll need to balance optimisation with growth. You will be spending a bit of your roadmap patching up all the crappy short cuts that has taken you here.

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BrainMates

JULY 6, 2020

A competitor analysis is one of the fundamental things you should do before you launch a new Product or business. As Product Managers, having solid knowledge of our rivals and their activity in the marketplace helps us make better decisions during the strategic product planning phase. How to undertake a competitor analysis.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. This blog does the opposite.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2018

I introduced a concept called Product EQ when speaking about managing conflict at work at a recent ProductTank London. All of these skills are just as crucial to product success as roadmap building, A/B testing and OKRs, however they’re often not given the emphasis that they deserve. The potential is HUGE!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Product vs Project Management?—?Batman Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. I’ve worked in companies that have both roles, companies that only have project managers and companies that only have product managers.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 27, 2017

When you first start building a product you have a lot of decisions to make. Oisin Zimmermann talks about the tools he’s used to set up a new product team. Oisin Zimmermann talks about the tools he’s used to set up a new product team. It can be overwhelming, especially if you’re new to product management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. prodmgmt #product. If you want to join us.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. prodmgmt #product. If you want to join us.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Five wild predictions, two true stories and some solid solutions for product leaders. Building great products is a complex, challenging, and exhilarating job. It requires product leaders to be strategic thinkers and forward-thinking by nature, as well as to see product opportunities when others are “lost” in ambiguity.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Strategic decisions are fundamental questions of what value your product delivers, to who and why.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

The new remote dev team should receive comprehensive information about the digital project in order to clearly understand the product itself and its challenges. I hope that this blog post guides you well how to go through all those aspects as smooth as possible. The key areas that should be discussed: 1. Project’s status?—?“done”,

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

you’ll find hundreds of articles, most pointing to the same reasons: No market need Ran out of cash Team problems Pricing/product/business models issues Competition One small problem I have with these reasons. Their day to day might run perfectly and production outputs very high. Google it?—?you’ll What might be missing?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Why are Product Management Books important ? Equally, there is more competition than ever to land those practical experiences in Product Management. If you’re looking for a voice of authority on Product Management, this is a pretty great one! The Product Book will help you take your first steps in product.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. Value A business or a product isn’t really a business or a product unless it does something valuable.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. Many Product Leaders start a new role by focusing outwards.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on. 25 mini-research ideas for inspiration 25 mini-research ideas for product managers 1.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Despite all the political, social and ecological upheavals in 2019, it’s been a busy and successful year for Mind the Product, not to mention the evolving product management community we aim to support. One from the Product Leaders evening in Singapore. Product Podcasting. Hitting New Locations.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A lot of the books, articles and discourse around product design focuses on the process of design work (the things designers do) and the output of design work (the things designers deliver). Leadership can be demonstrated through: Project leadership: For instance, conceptualizing and realizing new and innovative product ideas.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

So, whether you’re a user experience researcher, a user experience designer, or a product manager, this post is for you. Developers, designers, customer success representatives, and product managers are all examples of this. You can prioritise your roadmap. Sarah O’Donnell shared their experience on the GitLab blog.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in Product. Women in SaaS.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

The 5 types of Product Differentiation How to fight your natural instinct to copy others The allure of copying competitors The gravitational pull towards copying competitors is real. The product teams who are able to fight this natural instinct to copy others are the ones who will build truly differentiated offerings.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Product Managers today have an overwhelming array of code free tools for UX design and development to choose from. In the bad old days, SaaS companies had to build every part of their products from scratch. In this blog, we’ll show you our favorite low code or code free tools for UX at every step of the Product Manager’s role.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. Product Vision. Band vs Orchestra.

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