Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred. It might seem like introverts aren’t suited for the life of product managers, but that’s not true.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

From invisible UI to emotional personalisation to biometric authentication, which UI trends will be rocking our experts’ socks off in 2018? So over the last couple of weeks we asked some of the most respected UX professionals the following question… What do you think will be the biggest UI trend in 2018? Look, we get it.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. What does it mean for us as product managers? Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 18, 2022

The Starbucks product managers are now starting to face more competition for business in China than they have ever experienced before. What should they do with their product development definition now? All of which would look good on any product manager resume. Selling Coffee In China. Dealing With Coffee Competition In China.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. There’s a disconnect between aspirational product management and actual product management.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Yet it preoccupies me as I commute to work, eat my lunch, or sit in the office… what if I am the only person who struggles with product management? And I’d like to think that product people are among the more open professionals out there: we can be honest about our struggles, face up to our fears, and seek wisdom for our weaknesses.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Managing change with users and stakeholders. Just call him Mr Joe. Considered vs non-considered purchases. Tweet at us!

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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. As a product leader you must create a safe space for your 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. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. Moving From On-Premises to SaaS: Product Management Implications. Companies transitioning legacy products from on-premises to software-as-a-service platforms must consider the impact on product management.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Mind the Product is above all a community of product managers who strive to push our craft of product management forward by sharing our insights, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid. Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Hiring a Product Manager: A Little Clarity Goes a Long way.

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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. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. There’s a disconnect between aspirational product management and actual product management.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. There’s a disconnect between aspirational product management and actual product management.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. He was curious to understand how I could manage to succeed as a Scrum Master without strong domain knowledge. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. What Does the Scrum Master Do All Day?

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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. Click To Tweet.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. Moving From On-Premises to SaaS: Product Management Implications. Companies transitioning legacy products from on-premises to software-as-a-service platforms must consider the impact on product management.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence. Product management has long been practiced based on “gut.”

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 3, 2018

She was named a Top 100 Leadership Speaker for 2018 and is here to tell us how we can have a happier workplace. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:27] I was asked to lead a moving company, where the culture was really bad. There’s also a litmus test to help someone get a sense of where a team is.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To These product initiatives aren’t bad, they are just communicated at the wrong time and with the wrong intentions.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 16, 2019

While I did get some rest and relaxation, I’ve also been busy over the past few weeks with lots of exciting news and resources for product management leaders and product management teams. The Four Key Factors That Drive Product Management Excellence. Product management has long been practiced based on “gut.”

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list. This is our fantastic UX team. However, we have also developed a remote policy that helps us effectively collaborate with clients worldwide. We did it for you instead! Vienna Pixel.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

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. Catch Julia’s stakeholder management workshop in London in October!). Think Bigger.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s a word that isn’t commonly favoured by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. Organisations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organised in “squads”.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

As someone who has experienced the highs and lows that accompany life as a Product Manager, I am keenly aware of the challenges this important role plays in the technology industry [and so many others]. for the good or bad. Many, myself included, have referred to Product Managers as the CEOs of their individual products.

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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. Push for Change.

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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. Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 7, 2018

Product Management has been around for as long as there have been companies selling products, but Product Management is on the rise. So why are Product Managers in short supply now? This meant that great products could flourish, and bad products had nowhere to hide. This is the domain of professional Product Management.”.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. Do they have money?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

And over the next 10 to 12 minutes, I’m going to talk about how you in the mobile teams around the world can really fix a big problem around what we think of is the feedback funnel. Like when we talk about leads, we’re ultimately talking about another person or a team on the other end.

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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? I’d argue that making these mistakes will actually slow a team down in the long run. A team needs to consciously decide to make stability a part of value delivery, otherwise lack of stability will become part of the team’s culture.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I quit my job running the Apple Maps PM team last year. As an MSOD (Masters of Science, Organization Development) student, I consulted at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May of 2018. Each team in the program had a mentor assigned to stay with us throughout our consulting assignment.

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