Mind the Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. Joe gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks at Mind the Product in London 2018, so we followed [.]. Managing change with users and stakeholders.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. Upcoming Events.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. Upcoming Events.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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. Three Tips for Planning Next Year’s Product Roadmap. Upcoming Events.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. But I got hired as a coordinator for resource management, which meant that I had to coordinate very highly technical architects for projects. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Here is a story for anyone who’s interested in a few pointers for their own product manager job-hunting adventure. And just to be clear, luck and timing also play small yet critical roles in the process of jumping into the hell-fire role that is product management. Our group even won a prize at Hack Harvard 2018! Don’t worry?—?most

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. Product Management in the 90s The 90s in tech. At the time, Microsoft had Program Managers who were essentially engineers. Sound familiar?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

Look for product managers who are open and collaborative instead of godlike. And product is made up of design, product management, research and content design. I think this obsession with efficiency comes from the startup days when being wasteful was a debt. You know, program management falls into this category, too.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 11, 2021

So product manager, what does your product look like? billion in 2018. More product managers are trying to drive business results by extending their focus beyond the actual products for sale to concentrate on moments that get increasingly bundled under terms like “consumer experience.”. Is it in an unremarkable container?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

One of its apps, Fox Sports, was the #1 app on the iOS App Store in 2018. Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award in 2017 , five W3 awards, People’s Choice Webby Award in 2018, and the Appy Awards Winner?—?Gold Clutch has named them one of the top app development agencies in 2018. Innovation Manager , Packaged Goods Company 11.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

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. See you on April 10th, 2018! Thank you for your understanding! ??

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 – Some Highlights. Mikey Trafton – Managing Your Badass Team. Matt Wensing – 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups In 10 Minutes. Key Takeaways from Business of Software USA 2018 – Bethan Palmer, IDR Solutions. What an incredible few days.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Survey identifies growing pains as product management expands. The role of product manager formally dates back to the 1930s with its start at Procter & Gamble, but it has only been in the last few years that the role has become much better known. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:50]

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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. That’s no secret.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Within two years, Negar was promoted to Marketing Manager. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s the message Nilan opens his talk from BoS Europe 2018 with. Drawing on past experience working with early-stage startups and as VP Growth at TransferWise, Nilan gave a three-pronged talk on the subject: Learnings from running Marketing at early-stage startups. So, marketing in early stage startups.

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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. Managing change with users and stakeholders. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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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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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sometimes good ideas just don’t make it to market Image Credit: Vaping360 As product managers, the one thing that we’d all like to do is to be in charge of a very popular product. This scrutiny can make the life a product manager much more difficult if not downright impossible. and Canada.

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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? Could we create a new experience that previously was not possible?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but have been less successful services. The Managed Marketplace Era. [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces.

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Product Talk

APRIL 12, 2017

Lean Startup Conference. Detroit Startup Week. The Lean Startup Summit. Lean Startup Conference . Product Development and Management Association. Product Management Festival. Conferences 2018. February 3-8, 2018. February 3-8, 2018. March 11-15, 2018. CHIIR 2018 UX Conference.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

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. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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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. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2018

For example, Eric Reis, in The Lean Startup , recounts how cohort analysis helped his startup realize that their efforts at improving their product weren’t working: Thanks to the power of cohort analysis, we could not blame this failure on…external market conditions, or any other excuse. Eric Reis, The Lean Startup , 140–141.

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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 Guy

JANUARY 10, 2018

> What key people helped shape you into the product manager you are today? Then, when I began using Lean Startup techniques in my role in 2012, Chris encouraged me to start a class on Skillshare to teach others. Chris also gave me my first book specifically on Product Management, “The Art of Product Management” by Rich Mironov.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We are starting to pull together our 2018 conference list. I haven’t decided what events I’ll be attending in 2018 yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll update this post. Front UX Product Management Bootcamp. IXDA Interaction Week 2018. Product Management & Innovation 2018. GOTO Chicago 2018.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 5, 2019

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2018, Brian Crofts. > > What key people helped shape you into the product manager you are today? Eric Ries, entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup. Watch now and see why he is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

This translated to a return on investment of over 2,700 times, solidifying Sequoia’s reputation for identifying and backing promising tech startups with the potential for explosive growth. The company saw its revenue go from ~$443 million in 2018 to ~$1.3 billion in 2023.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 23, 2022

Cigarette product managers see change coming and are trying to prepare Image Credit: Lacey Krusmark. Just imagine if you were a cigarette product manager. What is a product manager to do? So let’s take a look at what it means to be a product manager at the biggest U.S. Embracing Change In Cigarettes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We know some of these may not help this tax season, but the beginning of the year is the ideal time to set yourself and your company up for success for 2018 and beyond. He has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and his experience extends to small companies and startups.

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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 how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. 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.

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