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. Value Proposition.

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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? Building the best products, working with the best people, utilising the best processes… I wish I was like YOU! I have a secret, not one I talk about often, if at all. Don’t you?!

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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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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

So, as a product manager for a mobile application, how on earth can you build an application that stands a chance of becoming a well-used, frequently purchased application, let alone rise to the level of “top 10?”. “The As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors.

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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

Twas the Night Before Product Launch. Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. 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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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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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. Until now.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits.

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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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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the Night Before Product Launch. Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. 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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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. Until now.

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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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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

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.

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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. 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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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

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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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. We often say our Product Strategy are things like: “To create a platform that allows music producers to upload and share their music.” “To YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Insights for new product managers and people who want to be product managers. Being a good product manager requires a diverse set of skills, including communicating, influencing, design, technology, product process, and business acumen. Now to the discussion for avoiding product management mistakes.

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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. If you give your team permission to say those things, they will.

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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

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. Well, an MVP is a lightweight early-version of your product. If you can wield a pencil, you can manage!

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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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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." Demand Reducers Forces that reduce or block demand should be investigated and managed with the same enthusiasm as demand generation. That product failed to gain traction. We live in our heads, don’t we?

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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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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Why is such a seemingly non-essential topic critical to your product’s success? 5 Things About Product Security You Should Be Aware Of.

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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. Problems with Customer Development.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

TL;DR – Product Drive 2022 in a nutshell. How to Scale Up Business with a Small Team and No Funds. is how to prioritize things with a small team and limited budget to achieve maximum growth. funds and average growth of teams after fundraising. the average increase/decrease in employment in following years.

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