Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2018 has begun!

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

For the recently-formed group-wide product team at Tes, our first major excursion as a group was to MTP 2017 – Europe’s largest gathering of product managers with more than 1,500 attendees. A topic a few speakers at MTP 2017 touched on, including Teresa Torres, is the danger when you ‘fall in love’ with your initial ideas.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As usual the evergreen product management headaches of Agile, roadmapping, stakeholder management, and prioritisation dominated the discourse in 2017. The post Top 10 Product Guest Posts of 2017 appeared first on Mind the Product. In this post Christian Bonilla shares how to manage that shadow product team.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. The post Even More Amazing Speakers for #mtpcon London 2017 appeared first on MindTheProduct.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The day before Mind the Product London 2017 we ran a forum for invited product leaders on a series of topics with some of the leading product managers from around the world. Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Another key function of product leadership is to drive collaboration with other parts of the business.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At the start of 2017 I made several predictions about UX design and research. Hopefully you had a great 2017 and (soon) a very happy 2018! A quick recap for UserZoom – in early 2017 we redesigned the entire UserZoom product and have consistently improved it throughout the year, and will continue to do the same in 2018.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Servant leadership is a term that’s been around for decades. While it can sometimes feel overused or outdated, I believe the principles of servant leadership remain as relevant today as they’ve ever been. Applying Servant Leadership To Every Level Of An Organization. The Role of Servant Leadership in Agile.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Claire has founded and managed two other companies, Pretty HQ and Experiment Engine, the latter of which Optimizely acquired in 2017. This means setting measurable goals and behaviors that align with your leadership principles and organizational values.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 11, 2021

In early 2017, I decided to take a fully remote product leadership role at an entirely distributed company of. Written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this forward-thinking piece from Courtney Machi, VP Product at Andela, explains how working remotely can make you a better product manager.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. He is a published O’Reilly Media author with two titles: Design Sprint (2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (2017). Product Leadership. Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2022

PMs in the country back in 2017. To make things more eye-opening, between 2017 and 2019, PM job openings in the US alone had already grown in a frenzy: 32% growth from 13.4k We make life easier for our engineers, and ensure what the team is building aligns with leadership and product success.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What we learned at Mind the Product 2017 by me. 5 Lessons from #mtpcon Leadership Forum by Casper Sermsuksan. — Jake Knapp (@jakek) September 10, 2017. — Faye Benfield (@fayebenfield) September 8, 2017. Reflecting on #mtpcon 2017. — Simon Whatley (@whatterz) September 11, 2017.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Sarah B. Spaces shape culture – it can’t be helped, the spaces we work in are a huge factor in the way we work so they are always going to define the overall working environment, both personally and physically.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Leadership Forum. Leadership Forum. If you’ve already forgotten why these are the hottest tickets in town, check out our recaps from 2017: So save the dates in your calendars, keep an eye out for more announcements in our newsletter , and get ready to nab your spot at the product events of the year! Early Bird.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership. Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems.

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bpma ProductHub

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

For example, see Melissa Perri’s blog post from June of 2017 entitled “Product Manager vs. Product Owner”. Jennifer Gridley, MBA is a business strategist, change agent and storyteller who has held a variety of corporate leadership roles, most recently in Product Marketing at athenahealth, Inc.

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Product Management Unpacked

MARCH 12, 2019

Catalyst Reports brings this finding to a corporate context — companies with more women in leadership positions show increased Corporate Social Responsibility. The 2017 Pragmatic Marketing industry survey reports that 61 percent of product managers are male, and male professionals make an average of $11,000 more than females in the field.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

As Ken Norton, Product Partner at GV, says in my upcoming book Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams , “When you’re a product manager, you’re generally not the boss. You need to gain authority through your actions and your leadership skills, not your role.”.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

Be sure to come to the BPMA event on May 13 th called “ High Performance Leadership: Leveraging the Neuroscience & Social Secrets of Confidence ” presented by Alyssa to soak up her zany stories and valuable tips. Look around at your own company and in your PM team, how many women do you see (let alone any minorities) in leadership roles?

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

Kicking off the 2017 BPMA calendar is Alyssa Dver on using Neuroscience to build confidence. Look around at your own company and in your PM team, how many women do you see (let alone any minorities) in leadership roles? Contributed by Saikrishna Chavali. Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Ivy has also been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change.

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Piyanka Jain

MAY 9, 2019

In November 2017, Gartner released a report stating that 60% of big data projects fail. [link] I can say so because I have been on both sides of the table, having hired analytics consulting companies for big organizations and also providing analytics consulting services to top companies.

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Piyanka Jain

MAY 9, 2019

In November 2017, Gartner released a report stating that 60% of big data projects fail. [link] I can say so because I have been on both sides of the table, having hired analytics consulting companies for big organizations and also providing analytics consulting services to top companies.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 6, 2021

This weeks’ Sunday Rewind takes us back to 2017, where Silicon Valley Product Group partner Lea Hickman provides her perspective on how people work in the world of product. She believes that transforming to a product culture gives teams the platform to learn and grow. Product culture is more than the sum of its parts, it [.]

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Ken Norton

MAY 31, 2017

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams By Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson and Nate Walkingshaw 256 pp. Three outstanding new books -. I want to draw your attention to three recently published books that will help you become a better product leader. O’Reilly.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2017

Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Melissa Perri, Author and Founder ProdUX Labs. Melissa Perri is a Product Manager, UX Designer, and speaker based in New York City.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Interestingly, the authors also axed other elements of the 2017 edition of the Scrum Guide that I thought less contested, for example, the magnitude of work allocated to Product Backlog refinement and servant-leadership. I have always considered servant leadership to be integral to Scrum’s success. in no particular order?—?I

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then have a section on product leadership, which is important for all product managers, but especially for senior folks looking to advance in their career. Leadership. Product management is ultimately a leadership role amongst the product development team and developing your leadership skills is tantamount to success in the role.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

As we know it today it has very much become a leadership role?—?servant servant leadership one to be exact?—?a a role which is focused on people and process leadership. Agile expertise aside this leadership style of coaching and cultivating culture does not need to be defined to a particular role, nor do I think it should be.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 20, 2017

From building products to building people – the path to leadership. Product managers, with the proper experience and training, are well-suited for leadership roles. Read several people’s paths to product manager in this article [link].

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Gainsight

JUNE 17, 2020

What’s so compelling about the book, even six years after its publication, is that it’s built around the principle that there are no easy answers or quick fixes in leadership. He captured the dramatic differences in leadership needed when you are in smooth sailing versus rough waters. The year is 2017. Family Dinner.

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TIBCO - Thought Leadership

OCTOBER 16, 2020

According to a recent Statista report, “ Digital transformation market revenue worldwide from 2017-2023 ”, the spending on the technologies and services that enable digital transformation worldwide is expected to amount to 2.3 trillion U.S.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2017

We’re excited to announce that the next ProductCamp London will be on Saturday March 4, 2017. The day before ProductCamp we’ll also be running a day of workshops with some of the top minds in product management, UX, and leadership to dig really deeply into specific product management skills to help you level up.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Strategy documents and presentations are not thought-leadership handed down by the product manager from on high, but used as a discussion point in order to get consensus amongst a variety of stakeholders: engineering, sales, marketing, business development, executive management, and so on. About Julian Dunn.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

More importantly, it becomes one of the best tools for leadership. Their insights and experiences will open up the conversation and take the lid off the mystery of great product leadership. Once you road-test this you will see the byproduct is actionable data that empowers the team.

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