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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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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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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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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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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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

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

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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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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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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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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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

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. Typically this would be a cross functional team of C- level and director-level people. How can you patch out weaknesses to take advantage of opportunities? Development.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity. Strategy first, technology second.

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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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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. He also is creating training on LinkedIn Learning for new product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Wade Foster (CEO/Founder, Zapier) – Building Operating Cadence with Remote Teams from Business of Software Conference. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. The good news is this talk is not just for remote teams. Make sure you stay for the whole video. Video, Slides, and Transcript Below.

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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. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams. Very little drama.

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Product Management Journey?—?Developer Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. in Computer Science) in 2008.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

BoS2018. — (@MarkLittlewood) October 3, 2018. Michael Trafton (@mikeytrafton) October 3, 2018. Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. I felt this incredible intense pressure from the team and also from within myself to launch what we had built.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Gina stepped away from Duolingo at the beginning of 2018 to help non-profits better understand the growth and marketing principles that thrive in today’s tech world. Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Gina: All the time.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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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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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. Traditionally in many organizations, these decisions are made centrally by a change manager who conducts periodic change advisory board (CAB) meetings. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no.

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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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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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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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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’ Unsubscribe anytime.

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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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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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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. .

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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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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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