Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Mind the Product London 2018 on October 18-19 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. Leadership Forum.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2024

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2018 ProductTank London talk from Jo Wickremasinghe, then Director of Product at News UK, which looks at the challenges she faced in building a product function at the organisation.

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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. Product Lifecycle.

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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 Innovation Educators

MAY 11, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. For larger organizations to create products like a startup, create a Growth Board. Just about every CEO recognizes that innovation and product management is central to organizational success.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Source: Todd Wickersty, [link].

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

According to a Gartner report “How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs Refreshed 14 May 2019, Published 16 January 2018,” three of the four key challenges are: Mutual lack of trust undermines good remote work intentions. Finally, as a product manager, look for people who voice support for what you are doing.

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Mind the Product

JULY 26, 2018

Last week 1,600 passionate product people from 33 countries and 37 states across the US gathered in San Francisco for two days of learning, sharing, and honing our craft. Leadership. What we learned at #mtpcon San Francisco 2018 by Emily Tate. 10 Things I Learned at Mind the Product 2018 by Josh Johnson.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 30, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How to succeed when taking over an unfinished product. New Podcast Episode for Product Managers & Innovators: How to make product roadmaps not dangerous – with Bruce McCarthy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2020

She joined us to continue where her 2018 Mind the Product talk left off and to go deeper into how to build great communities with remote teams. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She was also in charge of managing the marketing budget and aligning communication of the marketing efforts across the organization.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Pendo’s recent State of Product Leadership survey found that 77% of product teams are evaluated based on the number of features they ship. This gives product teams an implied incentive to add more, regardless of whether those features are being used and adopted.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2021

Becoming a Product Leader?—?Introduction Introduction This is an article series on moving from individual contributor Product Manager to people manager and Product Leader. As an individual contributor Product Manager, you can spend years honing your craft and focusing on doing your job better.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. In fact, from 2015 to 2018, gender representation had only increased by 2 percent. Let’s dive in. Want to add users?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 14, 2018

Mike got me thinking; should product managers also require a licence do their job? After all, we’re a sizeable professional community and having a product management certification or licence in place would ensure that all product managers comply with the same standards. Why I’m not Convinced.

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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] If you enjoyed the discussion, help out a fellow product manager by sharing it on your favorite social network.

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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. The Hardest Part of Product Management.

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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. Think Bigger.

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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]. Many, myself included, have referred to Product Managers as the CEOs of their individual products.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2018, Fender stated that its growth had outpaced the musical instrument market overall. Both have been affected by the peaks and valleys of the industry they inhabit, but their approaches to innovation in their products has been the determining factor for each company’s status today. The Fender Play learning platform.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 19, 2017

What are your goals for 2018? Make 2018 the year you make something happen. The post Levelling up in 2018 to Meet Your Goals appeared first on Mind the Product. Making a concerted effort to think about what you want to accomplish with your job or your life has zero down side.

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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. They deal with leadership pressures and expectations. Yet, most folks I know who do Product Management love it. What we learned in 2018 Treat the community as a product.

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Product Club

JANUARY 6, 2019

For me, 2018 was filled with inspiring and varied individuals and leadership styles. Martin (Head of Product, OLX) : Show leadership value by empowering your team, not by pulling rank. Mentors are all around us when we look through our life and workplace.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We’ve gathered some of the feedback, write-ups, sketchnotes, and photos below, and #mtpcon will of course be back in 2018 – in San Francisco on July 16-17, and in London on October 18-19! What we learned at Mind the Product 2017 by me. 5 Lessons from #mtpcon Leadership Forum by Casper Sermsuksan. Best conference I ever attended.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Ask five product managers what they do and they’ll likely give you five radically different answers. There’s a massive disparity in how people approach the role of a PM, depending on where they’re working, the products they’re developing, or even the culture of the company. Career Planning. It sounds so simple.

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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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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I’m very excited to announce a new division of Produx Labs , specifically focused on growing future Chief Product Officers for growth stage companies. In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of Insight Venture Partners reached out to me about an opportunity. Our future CPOs are extremely senior product leaders at top software companies.

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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. Instead Jeff started to deconstruct agile from a product manager’s view. All of this might be seen as basic these days.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 2, 2019

Fellow product managers and product leaders: have you ever had a moment when you’ve asked yourself, “am I really doing good with my product?”. I really enjoyed Kim Goodwin ’s talk at Mind the Product London 2018 and it made me think. Does our work mess with needs being met in the broader world?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

One of the latest buzzwords in the Product world is ‘Product Led-Growth.’ And does focusing on a product-led growth strategy make you a Growth Product Manager? Let’s examine this “new” trend… What Does Product-Led Growth Mean? Effective leadership. But what exactly does this mean? Cross-collaboration.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. Oh yeah I guess there is such a thing as product manager and I guess I was doing it without knowing.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Here are the top trends we have been seeing this year… Thanks to Tanner Boriack, Unsplash As leaders in Product Demand Intelligence , we know how important product feedback is to the growth of B2B SaaS organizations. We’re not quite at the end of 2018 but it’s proving to be a very exciting year here at Receptive. Get involved!

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