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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Roadmunk

AUGUST 24, 2017

During one of my daily peruses of the tech Twitter-sphere, I came across a tweet I feel should be plastered on the walls of every single product organization ever. Tight and continuous feedback loops with real customers is common in great products. Karan Peri (@karanperi) June 29, 2017. Intercom that ish.

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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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Userzoom

AUGUST 6, 2019

Katja Borchert, Senior Product Owner & UX Researcher, and Pietro Romeo, UX Researcher, reveal practical and leftfield examples of user research at FlixBus in their presentation ‘Don’t Guess It, Test It!’. I joined FlixBus in 2018 as a Senior Product Owner and researcher. As product owners?

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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 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. Products outside the norms of a category create anxiety for consumers.

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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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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

Whether you are new to the position or you have your fair share of experience, there are some dangers for product managers that not many people talk about. All rights reserved to Activision Blizzard I like to think that I have a lot of experience building products. Deadlines are for projects, not products.” Pitfall 1982.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Teresa Torres shares her opportunity solution tree – a visual aid that can help you find the best place to focus your team’s energies, whilst ensuring you consider enough opportunities. This means that everyone gets involved and buys into the solutions being tested.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2017

At Mind the Product London 2017, Jane took us through how she does this at online business print and design agency Moo – but not before chiding us about using our mothers as a unit of internet stupidity – ie “even my mother can use this”. Strong opinions, lightly held” is a mantra used across the user research spectrum.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In this inspiring talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Blade Kotelly shares a process that he says will give you the best chance to innovate, although it doesn’t necessarily guarantee success. Creating innovative products is extremely complex. Creating innovative products is extremely complex.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 12, 2019

You might see hundreds or thousands of new installs every day, but the true test of a quality app is how many of those customers become engaged and profitable? Driving higher survey response rates and extracting more meaning from NPS. All in all, they started gathering incredible feedback from their short, monthly surveys.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In December 2017, we launched our web app in over 100 languages. After all, why should a speaker of Thai, Zulu, or Armenian have a lesser experience of a product just because they speak a language other than English? The localization process starts at the product design and development phase. Product Development.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 18, 2018

However, we convinced ourselves that we’d better tackle the problem properly when we had time to fully explore the solution, and so we took our time defining the problem, doing extensive research and exploring lots of possible solutions. That tiny, seemingly obvious improvement turned out to be the most upvoted update we shipped in 2017.

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

In the past, the core goal of testing is to find bugs and fix them. But the dynamics of IT and testing landscape have changed now. Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Testing is changing, how are you adapting? New testing platforms.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. A typical product development process would follow the Waterfall principles, taking quarters, and even a year to release a product to the market.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In my last Mind the Product article , I shared my insights on our transition as we were right in the thick of it. Looking Back to 2017. To reduce the amount of time spent in regression testing. We have four product teams working on the same backlog of work, including fixing defects and high priority items as they come through.

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Amir Rozenberg

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Perfecto is excited to announce the availability of iPhone 8, 8+, running iOS 11 GA, as of today, Sep 22nd, 2017, 8AM EST. iPhone 8 and iOS 11 pack a number of new features and changes that require intensive testing for all applications, web and mobile. Happy Testing!

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An opportunity solution tree : This artifact captures any opportunities from across your interview snapshots that are relevant to your current product outcome. Which details you capture will vary from company to company or even product to product, but the goal is to help you put the conversation into context.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. Rather, it is Amazon’s smart home product strategy. between 2017 and 2022. Most of these technologies are evolving every day.

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