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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

And marketers with personas, and I with my roadmap. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. 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.

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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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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

And marketers with personas, and I with my roadmap. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. 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.

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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.

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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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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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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. What’s right for my product?

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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. SiriusDecisions Product Management Learning Library.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, 2020 brought us so many shocks and surprises that it made identifying top trends in product management more challenging than ever. As a product leader, entrepreneur, and product management author, I have paid close attention to the product community throughout 2020.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

We’re kicking our first 2018 research project with a very hot topic for SaaS product folks?—?prioritization. Join in right here: SaaS Prioritization Survey 2018 We’d love to hear how top SaaS companies decide what gets onto their product roadmap; how do they balance bug fixes, product improvements and feature requests?

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2017

This was the subject line of an email I recently received from an account manager at a financial management software vendor. We rely on this product every day—it is important to our business. No wonder the product was evolving at a slothful pace. which, as you probably know, is product roadmapping software).

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? Is routine the enemy when you plan out and communicate your plans for products? James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. Coping mechanisms that we use for the product systems we operate in. We’re on autopilot.

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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. SiriusDecisions Product Management Learning Library.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2018

These more senior engineers often find themselves in a challenging role, splitting their time between individual contributor responsibilities as well as management duties. The context switching between coding and project+team management can be demanding, and finding individuals who can traverse these two plains is difficult.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. Today we look at a few simple tips for product roadmap presentations. Tell a story.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

The advent of actually decent cloud-based productivity tools has made it easier to communicate and collaborate with teammates without being in the same room. Asana et al make task management easy and asynchronous, while Slack, Google Hangouts and more have made communication quick and in the best cases, personal.

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Gartner has predicted that by 2021, 75% of software providers will rely on insights from embedded software usage analytics to inform product management decisions and measure customer health (Predicts 2018: Technology Go-to-Market). How our products are used.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 30, 2020

Over 150 S&P companies cited NPS in 2018 earnings calls. Millions of dollars are spent managing it. Source: NICE Satmetrix, 2018. Prioritize and validate your product roadmaps and experiential investments. Methods that measure on a flat scale, like NPS, are standard in gauging customer sentiment.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 4, 2018

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. A case study in the wrong product metrics and advice for product managers. One place to find the software tools product managers are using. That is failing fast.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

When No-one Agrees With Your Roadmap. When I arrived at Workbar, a growing co-working space headquartered in Boston, I had to wrap my arms around what the product was, how they did releases, and who decided what was going to be in the next sprint. What do you need as a product person looking to get a roadmap updated or in place?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2020

?. (Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will taking part in a Product Management conversation focused on Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with MorphL - the AI platform for e-commerce. Get Your AI On!" About Paul Ortchanian.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2018

GREENVILLE, SC – April 12, 2018 — Proficientz announced today its 2018 Product Management University training curriculum, a series of training courses that teach best practices in product management, product marketing and sales enablement for B2B and B2B2C organizations. Incentive Pricing.

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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.

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DISQO

JULY 22, 2018

Product management is reaching maturity and unifying around proven techniques and best practices. That’s the overarching takeaway from the recent Mind The Product , the world’s largest product management conference. That though is also the paradox of product management. Todd Lombardo.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2018

Topic: What Your Roadmap Audiences Are Really Thinking. Sponsored by Product Management Auckland and Pushpay . Your different audiences have different (often opposing) goals and incentives , which means they probably want different product decisions and therefore different roadmaps. Registration page TBD.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback 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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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback 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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