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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?"

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Learnings from London: How to build a billion dollar app

Mind the Product

This week in our Learnings from London series, we turn our attention to #mtpcon London 2013 where George Berkowski, former Head of Product at hit startup Hailo, led a session on the main stage to inspire us on how feasible it is to build a billion-dollar app! [.]

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. Leadership.

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Driven by Purpose: The Secret Behind Successful Products

The Product Coalition

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Through this, I learned a key lesson — don’t build a product solely based on a problem or motivated by profit. Fairphone was founded in 2013 to challenge this status quo and prove that a more ethical approach is possible.

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Introducing the Speakers for MTP Engage Manchester 2019

Mind the Product

Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. In 2012, Tom wrote the Government Digital Strategy and co-ordinated the associated 18 departmental digital strategies.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K. The role did not require a lot of experience in product management because it did not involve developing and managing a product roadmap.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

At that point, we still did manual payments and ID verification, but we prioritised validating the key product features first before worrying too much about scaling. 2013 – Launch as Yimby. After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers.