Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

For many product teams , continuous discovery is a brand-new way of working. To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ).

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Companies share they are only “marginally effective” at converting R&D spending into product advancements. Customer feedback is an important source of ideas for product managers.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Responsibilities of Product Management.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the iPhone was a 2G product. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. So where have I been since school and dreams of being the Fresh Prince. Mainly in the Pharma game.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! They were awarded a province-wide contract consisting of 23 cities, which is the largest project of its size awarded to a single vendor in Canada.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

The other group (product, engineering, design, long-term support, product marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on overall impact for the whole installed base, long-term investments, and the need to support every line of code that any user has in production.  In Get it done, and move on.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Customers look to Atlassian for innovative products that take the “work” out of teamwork, and we’re committed to coming through for them. We’re building a cloud platform that lets us ship new capabilities and products quickly, as we’re beginning to see with Point A. Solving them takes cross-functional collaboration.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

So after like kind of teaching myself a little bit of SEO at these 16 years, it took me a couple of years until basically after college to join a great consultancy that was focused on enterprise clients, where I really learned the craft hands on. And at their essence, they have a collaborative product, which makes things much easier.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

We know that trying to take in over a dozen talks all at once isn’t easy, so we’ve broken them down into easy to digest groups: Product. Leadership. 1 // Product. Watch What to do about your audience's Product Roadmap questions. Watch the Product Roadmapping Q&A. 3 // Leadership. Innovation.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

In this talk, Peldi and Natalie discuss the aspects of remote worklife that are different now for working at home in result of Covid-19 including productivity, schedules, prioritisation, focus, and much more. So I think one of the biggest question that people keep asking a lot is around productivity, and like how do you stay productive?

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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. I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn.

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