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Product, Society, and Ethics by Kathy Pham

Mind the Product

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations and asks how teams and companies can be more accountable in the future. While no one can control and plan everything that will happen, what can product teams do today to mitigate risk?

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Jam 2016 – Product Manager Club

Product Club

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. Yeah but what’s Jam 2016?! The first presentation was an overview what goes on ‘behind the roadmap at Busuu’ and how the team create a well informed product roadmap. Hugo gave us a whistle stop tour of the good, the bad and the lucky.

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Product, Society, and Ethics by Kathy Pham

Mind the Product

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations and asks how teams and companies can be more accountable in the future. While no one can control and plan everything that will happen, what can product teams do today to mitigate risk?

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

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Deciding What is Valuable: A Hierarchy to Make Your Product Profitable

Mind the Product

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit? My name is Jacob.

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How I got a $375K PM offer from Instagram

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In 2016, I applied to Facebook’s RPM program. Curious, I went through the interview process to put my learnings to the test. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. This is a story I did not expect to write.

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SaaS is Helping to Re-engineer the Caregiving Service in Farming

The Product Coalition

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. In the fall of 2016, Chris had many meetings with potential contractors.