Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

As product management evolves, so do the challenges and questions facing product management leaders. At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. I’m an imposter here”.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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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

APRIL 26, 2019

In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product Singapore 2019, Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian, shares some common misconceptions about the product management craft, how we need to think differently about those issues, and what we should be doing instead.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 19, 2019

H2R Product Science ‘s Holly Hester-Reilly produces a Product Science Podcast which covers a range of topics around product experiments, teams and scalable organizations. She invited me to join for this episode called The Rich Mironov Hypothesis: Great Product Leadership is Both Subtle and Slow to Pay Off .

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 28, 2019

Product Managers are increasingly important to the product development process and have been called the “unsung heroes of the tech world,” the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements, ” and the new dream job for MBA students. Product management is the opposite.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. I’ve worked in companies that have both roles, companies that only have project managers and companies that only have product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Lots of people had bad answers and failed answers about how to do it.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Creating a product vision of the future that’s awesome for everyone. Product roadmaps are frequently used badly, almost as handcuffs for product managers. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. Who the roadmap is for.

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Usersnap

JUNE 17, 2019

72% of customers blame poor customer service as the reason for having to explain their issue multiple times. Top 4 Struggles for Customer Service Teams. You have to understand the customer’s problem and forward it to the developers or marketing team. They have over 15 million users globally as of 2019.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Why is that?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. Learn how to ask your team the right questions, why trust is important, and why being nice can be a bad thing. My name is Claire Lew and I’m the CEO of Know Your Team.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Product Manager @ Microsoft & Top Product Management Voice Olga Mykhoparkina – CEO & Founder of Quoleady *Quotes have been lightly edited for clarity TL;DR When did you get into tech?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. In 2019, LinkedIn reported similar results.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable!

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It will introduce the top UX agencies here and shamelessly put our team on the list as well. Most famous for their innovative work and the love of prototypes, Ideo provides diverse teams with designers, engineers, and researchers to a project. The team also holds trainings and workshops. The Top UX Agencies. Digital Telepathy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

Writing a great product manager resume helps you stand out when recruiters or hiring managers start to interview candidates. Given the often ambiguous nature of product management, it may feel pretty challenging to write an effective product manager resume.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

the State of Practice in 2019 ’ edition found that new converts to Scrum, for example, will recruit themselves mostly from the late majority and laggards. Copyright notice : InfoQ, 2019. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Its recent ‘ Culture & Methods?—?the

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

In other words, “good help is hard to find” still rings true in 2019. But if you’re recruiting product management talent, you’re in luck. Today’s article is dedicated to helping you source, recruit, and hire product managers by establishing a product management talent funnel.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

BoS Europe 2019 BoS USA 2019. Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Alison Coward: Designing High-Performing Teams. Wade Foster: Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

April Dunford UK Book Launch Tour BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020. I wrote this page for the team saying you know the fact that it’s too much around me it’s a limiting factor in the pursuit of our company’s mission. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams. Upcoming Events.

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ProductPlan

MAY 7, 2019

Ensuring everyone is striving toward the same strategic goals while still working and thinking independently isn’t easy, particularly when the organization is broken out into separate teams. How can specialization and product-level focus marry up with the overlying objectives the company has defined and is measuring itself against?

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Gainsight

JANUARY 28, 2019

But in my day job as CEO of Gainsight and “Chief Karaoke Officer” of the customer success movement, I think about other measurements: How many people will come to Pulse 2019 , after 5000+ at Pulse 2018? I’ve spoken to these SaaS CEOs about a variety of topics—everything from: Leadership and org decisions. Hundreds so far).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

From a stakeholder’s perspective, why should they defer a critical strategy decision to a product manager who doesn’t share their same goals and objectives? This is why product management exists?—?to Is the team delivering value every sprint? Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020. And for the last decade or so I’ve been doing a combination of things around enterprise software product management. I drop into San Francisco area software companies as the interim or temporary head of product management or Chief Product Officer. Upcoming Events.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. For me it is crucial to be part of the roadmap creation when developing the UX strategy. If not, how can you call your product user-centered

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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. BoS Europe 2019 BoS USA 2019. 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. Upcoming Events.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We are based here in Austin, and we are focused on democratizing access to the best of the best in terms of leadership development through a technology platform. Most recently I spent eight years at Spiceworks, moving through a number of roles there, including pioneering our product operations function.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Des: We’re going to talk entirely about 2019, and this will be mostly looking forward. They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. The idea of apps being singular products has faded away a bit. Do you think that will keep going in 2019, or have we seen as much as you expect here?

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This is the final presentation we’ll be sharing from BetterUX 2019. I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? And this is what happened to Snapchat last year, big redesign, and they got all kinds of bad reviews, right, and social media.

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