Mind the Product

JUNE 8, 2018

Bashing agile is in vogue at the moment, so when veteran product manager and product design evangelist Jeff Patton suggested it as a topic for his keynote talk at MTP Engage I jumped at it. If the audience was expecting a speech which shot down agile methodologies, they were wrong. Jeff Patton. Jeff Patton.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

Roughly every third attendee chose to spend the pre-conference day as part of a smaller group in one of the five workshop sessions on Stakeholder Management, Roadmapping, Product Management Foundations, Visual Thinking and User Story Mapping. All talks will be published here on Mind the Product over the next few weeks.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Be responsible for a solution without approval from the Dev Manager. Learn Agile.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 23, 2018

The B2B Product Manager Magazine August 2018 is now available. This month we explore the value of a product marketing roadmap to sales. It’s not a staple in most B2B organizations but it’s just as important to your near-term revenue as a product roadmap is to your longer-term growth.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions. Upcoming Events.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions. Upcoming Events.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. September brings about the return of kids to school, cooling temperatures, and, for product managers, an opportunity to review plans for the next year’s roadmap. SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions. Upcoming Events.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

The theme of the morning was that good culture is key to building great product. Julia Whitney’s opening keynote told us that regardless of our level in an organization chart, the nature of our jobs means that product managers have to be leaders. And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Discovery Anti-Patterns?—?April April 10th, 2018 Join my first webinar product discovery anti-patterns? —?from Join the “Product Discovery Anti-Patterns” Webinar on April 10th, 2018 With GDPR becoming effective on May 25th, 2018, I kindly ask you to register by downloading an invitation.

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bpma ProductHub

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

But since this is the BPMA, we’re thinking about the oft-merged roles of Product Manager (PM) and Product Owner (PO). On January 23rd, Pragmatic Marketing hosted a webinar entitled “Six Ways Product Management’s Role Will Change in 2018.” And we’re not alone. No one is doing validation work.”.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 10 tips for the agile product manager. (1) 1) Act as a Product Leader, not as an Agile project manager. (2) 2018 tech innovation trends.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Agile, Kanban & Scrum for product management in different contexts. Consumer goods, SaaS, enterprise products and others have different product and project management needs.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

If you enjoy the beginning, you’ll hopefully enjoy reading the rest of this holiday tale about a product launch that almost went off the rails. Moving From On-Premises to SaaS: Product Management Implications. Product Management Planning for 2019. product #prodmgmt. prodmgmt #agile.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2019

Product Management is a hard job. If you find a good product manager, they’ll often make the role look natural and even effortless. Yet, most folks I know who do Product Management love it. For 2018, we spent the year creating a meetup-driven product community in our very own Good Life state.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

If you enjoy the beginning, you’ll hopefully enjoy reading the rest of this holiday tale about a product launch that almost went off the rails. Moving From On-Premises to SaaS: Product Management Implications. Product Management Planning for 2019. product #prodmgmt. prodmgmt #agile.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Four Healthcare Product Management Trends for 2018. We work with b-to-b product management teams across many industries at SiriusDecisions, but lately we’ve been with more product management teams in companies that are healthcare-focused (e.g. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) February 8, 2018.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Four Healthcare Product Management Trends for 2018. We work with b-to-b product management teams across many industries at SiriusDecisions, but lately we’ve been with more product management teams in companies that are healthcare-focused (e.g. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) February 8, 2018.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. including myself?—?went

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. Products are built for the user, not for the product team.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. A mature product has a lot going on at once.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management. Today, I’m very proud to be the executive director of Carnegie Mellon University’s new Master’s in Product Management (MSPM) program. A product manager typically acts as the point person throughout a project’s life-cycle.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 1, 2018

When we compare today’s agile product management in practice with what we have seen some 10 years ago, not much has changed: Agility is still mainly limited to UX labs and A/B testing, and misses the potential value that could be found between the initial idea and a working product.

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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

JUNE 20, 2018

Therefore, the fifth Hands-on Agile webinar addresses common sprint planning anti-patterns. Update 2018–06–12: The Youtube Playlist of the Webinar Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Is Available The videos of the webinar are available now: [link] Hands-on Agile Webinar #5: Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns (0)? By the way, it’s free. ??

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As another year draws to a close, it seems appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of 2017, assess the progress we’ve made as a community, and examine how we’ve pushed the craft of product management forward. As good product managers, we’re learning just as much as we’re teaching.

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Product Talk

APRIL 12, 2017

Agile and Beyond. Mile High Agile. Agile Dev West Conference. Mind the Product. Agile Australia 2017. Agile 2017. Mind the Product. Product Development and Management Association. Product Management Festival. Conferences 2018. February 3-8, 2018. Portland, OR.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2019

Product Talks: Product Tournament, August, 2018. Speak to any product manager at a product management meet-up and they will sound practiced and polished. Do Product Managers actually walk their talk? Filling out boxes in a template does not make a Product Manager or entrepreneur.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We are starting to pull together our 2018 conference list. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Front UX Product Management Bootcamp. IXDA Interaction Week 2018.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Are you looking for the 2018 Product Conference list? Mind the Product Singapore. Software Product Management Summit. Industry Product Conference Europe. Agile and Beyond. Agile + DevOps West Conference. Front UX & Product Management Case Study Conference. Agile Australia.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. First principles of product management. Product management is not project management. Project management is a tool used in creating products.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This blog is about a couple of Product Management truths and trends. In November 2018, Brainmates hosted eight Product Management leaders for a round table discussion to tease out their insights and beliefs on the state of Product Management in Australia. Kent Weathers and Sandeep Gondekar.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Product managers have much responsibility and little actual authority. This results in the need for creating influence with those involved in product work.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Communicating with customers through online communities and conferences to help product managers succeed. You need to be using customer communities in your product management work. In 2018 she was recognized among the 25 most influential women in digital marketing by TopRank.

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