Mind the Product

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Mind the Product our mission is to further the craft of product management by bringing together product people of all stripes to share their stories and experiences. So without further ado, here are the Top 10 Product Management & Design Videos of the year: 1. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. This sets the scope for our discovery. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. Assumption testing is evaluative. Assumption testing is evaluative.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. I hope to have the book ready by early 2017 and I’ll be blogging bits and pieces along the way. Let’s get on with it.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I opened this year’s Mind the Product London conference by suggesting that product management isn’t actually about managing products, but about managing people. I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. Saving Time and Money.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I had not heard of the term Product Owner until years later.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2017

Since then, I’ve been asked dozens of times what my favorite product conference is. There are a lot of great product events, but for my money, none are better than Mind the Product. It’s the only product conference where I feel confident that the content will push my thinking and that there will be a number of great parties.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

From The Best Product Person of 2016, Chris Butler, …. Get great at doing research and customer development. If you aren’t used to talk with people and doing research for your product you are more likely to just be a project manager. Working with these people will be through the research that they do. More to Come.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This past week I was in London speaking at Mind the Product. As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. When Mind the Product releases the video, I’ll add it to this post. Teresa Torres presented ‘Critical Thinking for Product Teams’ at Mind the Product London on September 8, 2017.

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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. When we started this podcast, Teresa was one of the people we simply had to talk to – about this technique, and also about her work as a discovery coach. Quotes of the Episode.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 26, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. > What are some items that great product managers do every day? To me, the difference between a good Product Manager and a great Product Manager is a shift from an output to an outcome mindset. The Product Guy.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 5, 2017

Nominate a great product manager you know today @ [link] ! Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at iHeartMedia , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext , BKLYN and many more. The Modern Product Manager from researcher to motivator. Jeremy Horn The Product Guy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. I’m inspired by making other Product Managers awesome. I sometimes miss building software products myself, but being a part of teaching and expanding Product Management is a passion. Jeremy Horn The Product Guy. More to Come.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

Increasing the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work is my North Star metric. My goal is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Discovery Coaching Doesn’t Scale. Understanding Impact vs. Outcomes. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products. In discovery mode, we try to create solutions which are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15]

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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. Compassion.

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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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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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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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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 Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers negotiate like a pro. Product management is negotiation. A perspective on product teams – the Product Value Team. Here is one model that can help [link].

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Userzoom

MAY 23, 2018

Exploring the basics of creating and testing UX prototypes. UX designers and researchers follow an iterative process – testing pieces and versions of the product and making improvements along the way, until, in the end, you’ve got a thoughtful and useful product that people love. It’s nice here.).

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2017

Last week the first ever MTP Engage took place in Hamburg and gathered over 300 product people – the largest gathering of product people in Germany ever! and our photographer @mr_mo is product manager, too): Sketchnotes. — Tim Schurig (@schurock) April 28, 2017. We hope to see you again next year!

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. BUT we still had to test our ideas. This is the way we were taught to think about Product Strategy. Product Strategy emerges from experimentation towards a goal.

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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. So we reached out to our friends at Mind the Product, who were happy to share honest feedback from real product managers.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. If you want to help the next generation of product managers and innovators, volunteer to coach a team. PDMA 2017 conference was one of the best yet! A product portfolio management primer.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence to enhance user research User research is crucial for the human-centered design of digital products and services. However, traditional user research methods can be time-consuming, subjective, and difficult to scale. Unconscious bias can influence results.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? Reading papers about how Google or IBM build their ML products, it’s easy to think only the very largest companies can afford to productize machine learning.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

We provided real-time support to a test group of new customers during their first 45 days after signing up, and it helped drive 15% incremental growth in new business revenue. Look no further than the 2017 edition of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report. Putting real-time support to the test. can I do X with your product?)

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Consumer adoption of voice-based products has grown to the point where businesses need to understand what voice-based experiences can mean to them. But, as I’m sure we’re all aware, exploring new business models such as voice-based products and experiences doesn’t always come naturally to big companies. Design Sprints for Voice.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

MTP Engage Hamburg will be a one-day event for 300+ product people with 4 keynotes, 12 sessions with members of the local product community, and many ways for product people to engage & learn. His fourth startup NumberFour is one of the most curiously awaited product launches in 2017. Sebastian Deterding.

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