Mind the Product

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Mind the Product and ProductTank were founded on the importance of sharing stories between product managers in order to further our craft, so we love recording those talks and sharing our speakers’ hard-earned lessons with everyone else in the product community. Your Product is Already Obsolete – How to Survive.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. Product management is unfair.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Subscribe now. So we teamed up to make that happen.

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Video: Developing a Continuous Feedback Loop. Slides: Developing a Continuous Feedback Loop. Essay: Designing Your Product's Continuous Feedback Loop. When embarking on a new project, teams too often treat customer feedback as a one-time effort.

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Chasing the next big product win in banking or fintech? According to Quanti research , by the end of 2024, 3.6 Dont Just DigitizeRevolutionize EPAM research (2020) shows 63% of people choose their primary bank based on trust. That means constantly testing new features, listening to feedback and improving the user experience.

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Mind the Product

JULY 18, 2017

This is the first of two posts that deep dive on A/B testing, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In this post I share some of the learnings we’ve had after running 60+ A/B tests at Peak , looking at each step of the A/B testing cycle in turn. Brainstorm your A/B tests.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 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. . Are you avoiding all 8 of these product management mistakes? 6 tips for getting buy-in on your product roadmap. (1) 6 tips for getting buy-in on your product roadmap. (1)

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 24, 2017

From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. > How do you see product management evolving over the next 5 years? I think there is a big opportunity for tools that help gather information and do sense making for product people. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

to run its Product organisation. Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). Listen if you’d like to learn more about: When should you hire your first product manager?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative.

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Mind the Product

JULY 27, 2017

This is the second of two posts that deep dive on A/B tests, expanding on a talk I gave at Google Playtime 2016 in London. In the first post I explained how to step up your A/B testing , and in this post I’ll look at how using a tracker spreadsheet can help you manage your A/B tests and better retain learnings from past ones.

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The Product Guy

JULY 13, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 12, 2019

Marty Cagan, founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group , delivered the opening keynote to the 2016 Mind the Product Conference. His keynote, “Behind Every Great Product,” highlights professionals involved in some of the most iconic technology products of our time, including Netflix, iTunes and Word for Mac.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2017

Out of the hundreds of nominations, and amazing finalists, the 7th annual winner of The Best Product Person is … Chris Butler. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2016: Chris Butler.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

Doing one of my favorite things—presenting at Mind the Product. Over the past six years, I’ve developed and honed my Continuous Discovery Habits curriculum by reading and writing about the best research on problem-solving , decision-making , and critical thinking. I run a 12-week coaching program for product trios (i.e.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. into context and help product teams know what to use when. David Farber.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle of Introduction, growth , maturity and decline.With digital disruption in the market place it is very critical that we design products that stay in the growth phase for a longer period of time. Strategy: A Strategy of the company can be implemented in various forms.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In 2016 we released Smart Campaigns , which addressed the same problem of message orchestration. This has led to customer feedback that they don’t know what’s being sent, when, how, or why – it turned out the “black box” of logic hid too much, so we resolved to avoid that risk. Look outside your product. Test your assumptions.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2016

More than 1,200 of you took part in this year’s Product Manager survey, double the number who took part in our survey three years ago. And like any other expanded community this year’s survey results bear witness to a greater diversity. There now look to be more women in a product management role. More seniority.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 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. While innovation continues to score highly in importance, most organizations are underperforming, and the respondents to an HBR survey indicates the issue is not leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Before solving the case, let’s first understand the fundamentals of product-led growth, something that is not complete without mentioning a few best-of-breed products. Grammarly, DropBox, Slack, Zoom are synonyms of product lead growth. Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 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. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 14, 2020

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market. This is our fifth consecutive year conducting this research. In-app survey response rates. Average app rating for Media apps. Average app review volume.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Use “why does it have to be that way” questions to improve products and services. When taken seriously, such questions help product managers and innovators think about problems differently.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. In 2019 research firm IDC found them to deliver 869% ROI (??) along with time savings and higher productivity. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. It is a valuable time to learn from experienced product managers, on topics that the participants themselves choose. How do product managers get better – learn from Ellen Chisa’s advice.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. We had to stop all our tests indefinitely until we could release more capacity in our factory.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 11, 2016

Improving Product Management in 2016: Strategy vs. Technique. Certainly improving technique will have an impact on product management performance, but often product management leaders focus on upskilling on technique and neglect the strategic elements. and the SiriusDecisions Product Ownership Decision Framework.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2017

For the past two months, I’ve been conducting research and discovery to help establish some ground rules for the Mind the Product Training Program. These are: To offer the same best in class experience that our Mind the Product conference attendees get when they come to our events. What do I mean by this?

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. The Problem.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I think, by now, we all know that product management is hard. I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily’s Pick.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Get feedback on different messaging and ads to find which resonates.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 9, 2020

This is our fifth consecutive year conducting this research. Data from our 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019 reports is included to show shifts in brand focus and engagement over time. Below are the averages for Food and Drink app interaction and response rates, surveys, and in-app messages. Key Strategies for Food & Drink Apps.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 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. . Product manager as mini-CEO or coach? A lot of people get involved with product management because they want more influence over product and the organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 12, 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. Poker lessons that apply to product management. (1) 1) Nurturing luck through collaboration and feedback. (2) 5 tips for how product managers can utilize the Net Promoter Score.

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