The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 14, 2022

You would think that being a product manager for a hot new start-up beverage would be a great job, right? What does a product manager have to do in order to make their new drink product a success? Why It’s Hard To Market New Drink Products. In fact, investors really seem to like these types of products.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2020

.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. The post Balancing Family Life with a Career in Product Management – Shelly Kalish & Karen Hershenson on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 23, 2022

Cigarette product managers see change coming and are trying to prepare Image Credit: Lacey Krusmark. Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. You are responsible for a product that is both addictive and reviled. Young people seem to getting the message and are less likely to start to use your products.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2020

.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. The post Can you be a Mom and a Product Manager? – Shelly Kalish & Karen Hershenson on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. “People are hard.”

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 10, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. > What key people helped shape you into the product manager you are today? The first person who really started me on the path to where I am today was my VP of Product at OpenSky, Chris Keane. Jeremy Horn The Product Guy.

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UserVoice

MAY 31, 2017

If you haven’t been persuaded to get tickets for BASiS 2017 yet – or you need to convince your boss it’s worth the investment – here are 5 of our top reasons to get tickets: Because BASiS is the only purely data-driven product management event. Everyone says being data-driven is important.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 11, 2022

Chinese product managers are trying to win over millions of Indian users Image Credit: Neha Singh. If you were the product manager for a new social media app, what would your #1 goal be every day when you went to work? There is only one answer to that question: to sign up more users for you app. billion people.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Enterprise Product Managers are a bit different compared to the others. One particular issue that I often see is, whether to scale up a product quickly or not. Product Manager usually have pretty limited knowledge about engineering stuffs.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. I have served as a CEO several times and have been involved or responsible for the launch of more than 100 products. In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 2, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. I love the way he promotes Product Management, but I also love the idea of his job- helping startups with their products. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “You must be intentional about your personal and career development” Oluwatobi Otokiti, a Product Manager at Andela in Nigeria, has been working in product management for five years. However, just seven years ago, she had no idea what product management was. Oluwatobi Otokiti.

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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. Dave is the Chief Product Officer at PhotoBox, Europe’s leading personalised product printing company.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Putting your best foot forward as a product manager. Mind the Product 2017 in Review – lessons for product managers. Mind the Product 2017 top talks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2020

In this post, we talk to Kayiita Johnson, product manager at Google Nest and the founder of PM While Black , a site making PM accessible to the Black community. In the past five years, I have conducted over a hundred informational interviews, mock interviews and intro calls with people that were interested in product management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 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. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus. Janice Fraser, SVP, Bionic.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the on-demand user insights platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Prior to starting Faire in 2017, Max spent several years at Square, where he was a founding member of Square Capital, the first product manager on Square Cash, and a Director of Consumer Product for Caviar. In today’s conversation, we dive deep into how startups can get international expansion right.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

The internet is rife with advice on how to become a Product Manager – often written by people who have never worked as a Product Manager themselves. Contents: Why is breaking into the Product Management career path difficult? Tips for becoming a Project Manager John Fontenot’s Path to Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. It’s a slow week around the web for product management articles. How the product manager role evolves from startup to mature organization. Happy New Year!

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. The difference between innovation and execution metrics for product managers. Lessons from the mobile product management roadshows. (1) Read how at [link].

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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. But most importantly #mtpcon will, as usual, bring you the best minds in product from around the world for a day full of thought-provoking insight, inspiration, and learning.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Whether we work at a big company or a small startup, we need to monitor how our teams are growing. A product manager is like a leader of a band. Thanks to the Mind the Product team for putting this together. The post 5 Product Leadership Lessons From the #mtpcon Leadership Forum 2017 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

In 2017, Teresa Torres gave one of our favourite talks on the Mind the Product stage, introducing the concept of Opportunity Solution Trees. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

MAY 11, 2020

Organiser Amanda Lam tells us about her ProductTank in Hong Kong, where, despite Product Management still being in its infancy, the community is vibrant and keen to connect – in fact, on occasion, events have to be extended to allow for all the conversations! What can you tell us about Hong Kong’s Product Community?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. I’m co-presenting with John Spero from Praxair on how organizations effectively and simply accelerate their product capability. Test-driven product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 25, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Tips for conducting consumer and market research for new products. What you can learn from user behavior to improve aspects of products. 5 best books on product management. (1)

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizely. Claire has founded and managed two other companies, Pretty HQ and Experiment Engine, the latter of which Optimizely acquired in 2017.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. He is currently a Distinguished Product Manager for Atlassian.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. The Personality Test.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Andrew Wynn’s path to product management isn’t your typical story. It wasn’t long before Andrew broke into the startup world while running the data and catalog team at Instacart. I spent 10 months at Levi’s before realizing that the really exciting work was happening at startups.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

If you speak to five product managers about how they got their jobs, you’re likely to receive five different answers. Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Read more… ??

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