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Mental Health as a Product Person – Let’s Talk
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OCTOBER 10, 2019
Today is World Mental Health Day , and as we both struggle with mental health it’s a good opportunity to speak out and reflect on the issue of mental health at work.
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Justify Your Product Decisions and Get Stakeholder Buy-in by Teresa Torres
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OCTOBER 4, 2019
In this closing keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco , product discovery coach Teresa Torres shares her insights on how product managers can co-create solutions with stakeholders and better manage expectations. Teresa starts by pointing out that we all find comfort in getting the right answer.
Great User Research (for Non-Researchers) by Steve Portigal
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Researchers often have concerns about what will happen when “other people” go out and do work with users. But the demand for research far outweighs the supply of researchers, and everyone wins when more people are enabled to do research themselves.
How to Spot a Partial Product Manager
Mind the Product
AUGUST 29, 2019
What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job.
The Product Growth Engine
Speaker: Dave Martin, Founder, Right to Left
How do you create sustainable growth? Do your product and feature releases achieve the desired results? In this talk, Dave Martin, founder at Right To Left, will explore how human bias repeatedly hinders product success and causes teams to miss out on their potential.
How to Involve the Entire Organization in Your Agile Transformation
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OCTOBER 10, 2019
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How to Influence the Business by David J Bland
Mind the Product
AUGUST 23, 2019
In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Precoil founder David J Bland offers some helpful tips on how product managers can influence the business and run more effective experiments. David talks about products that people loved and that have now disappeared from the shelves.
The Importance of Being Clear by Lindsey Jayne
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DECEMBER 13, 2019
In this #mtpcon London talk, Lindsey Jayne, VP Product at Monzo, discusses the importance of writing clearly in order to make better decisions and diversify thinking. Key points.
Platform Management by Brandon Chu
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AUGUST 16, 2019
At #mtpcon San Francisco, Brandon Chu, VP of Product at Shopify, provides some insight into what he considers the most interesting challenge in his career: managing platforms.
Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy
Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.
As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, he’ll speak to organizing for effectiveness, productivity and joy.
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You Need A Product Strategy by Sam Odio
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OCTOBER 14, 2019
Shipping product to 500 million users without knowing what strategy was? Sam Odio found himself in this position early in his career while working at Facebook Photos.
Optimal Matching for Marketplace Startups and the Role of Bias
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 3, 2019
While matchmaking is a core lever of any marketplace business, data crunched by Uber, Airbnb, and other marketplaces shows that engineering an optimal marketplace sometimes defies common sense. For example. You finish dinner and are ready to head home.
Why Feature FOMO Stalls Product Innovation
Mind the Product
AUGUST 1, 2019
Messenger apps started as the simplest way to start a conversation online. Open the app. Select a person to chat with.
Be a Director, not a Manager by Fareed Mosavat
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Fareed Mosavat, Director of Product, Lifecycle, at Slack, shares his early career lessons on creativity from Pixar. He says being a great product leader is about being a director instead of a manager.
The Definitive Guide to Predictive Analytics
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How to Design Products Using Behavioral Science
Mind the Product
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Too often, we assume that consumers make rational decisions and take them at their word when we ask them about how they behave. But there’s a gap between what consumers say they will do and what they actually do. How do we bridge this gap and design products based on real behaviours?
Good Product Management is the key to Organisational Happiness
Mind the Product
AUGUST 20, 2019
A few years ago I read Tony Hsieh’s book on Zappos , a company that has been lauded for its amazing culture. In the book he shares his view on the four pillars for happiness: progress, purpose, control, and connection.
Five Habits of Highly-Effective Product Teams
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
How do you develop an understanding of what will set a product up for success throughout your organization? This blog looks at what actions product managers can take to ensure their teams are investing their time wisely. “If
Data-Driven Blunders and how to Avoid Them
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
“We are a data-driven company”. You’ll travel far and wide before you find a tech startup that doesn’t pride itself on this claim. It’s become a tech staple – alongside free beer on Fridays, table football, and all the fruit you could dream of.
An Adult Conversation About Estimates
Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.
Transform me, but Please Don’t Change Anything by Gabrielle Bufrem
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JULY 5, 2019
Gabrielle Bufrem delivered a talk at #MTPEngage Manchester and #MTPEngage Hamburg which drilled down into the desire of a business to digitally “transform”, but not really change anything along the way. Gabrielle reminds us that every company is now a tech company.
Five Steps to Positioning Your Product
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 11, 2019
If building products is hard, positioning your product is harder. No matter what you build and sell, how you position your product dictates what you do. How you prioritize, marketing campaigns, sales strategy, it all changes based on how your product is positioned. So where do you start?
Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable.
Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Increasingly product managers are expected to think and operate “strategically”, but, as this post will reveal, it’s a requirement that can lead to misaligned expectations and be full of traps for the unwary.
The 5 Levels of Analytics Maturity
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The Power of Experience Mapping by Gerard Dolan
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Gerard Dolan is a Customer/User Experience and Product Design Consultant. In this Toronto ProductTank talk he illustrates the power of experience mapping, answers the questions of what it is, why we do it and the value of doing it by exploring: The types of experience maps.
An Imposter’s Guide to Giving Presentations
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Whether you’re a product person prepping for an important in-house presentation, working up the courage to step on stage at a big conference like #mtpcon, or just want to brush up on your public speaking skills, this practical guide will help you to prepare a killer presentation.
Product Discovery or Product Delivery: How do you Decide?
Mind the Product
JULY 11, 2019
What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty. The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer.
Personal Growth – the Essence of Your Product Career by Kristina Walcker-Mayer
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
In this talk from #MTP Engage Hamburg, I look at how you can embrace and accept your strengths and weaknesses and at what kind of people should you partner up with to create true value and drive success for your customers, your company, and yourself.
The Six Principles of Persuasion
Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech
As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result. We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. Our “good idea” is simply the beginning. An idea must be communicated; a case must be made; and ultimately other people must be persuaded to get onboard. Michael Carducci brings a fascinating background to this webinar. He’s a technologist and regularly works to help senior leaders improve their results. He’s also a professional mentalist and has been a student of psychology, human behavior and the principles of influence for nearly two decades.
How to use the 5 Whys to Manage Stakeholders
Mind the Product
AUGUST 27, 2019
A few years ago, I worked with a client in a very hierarchical organization. Position and title were very important at the organization, and everything was done in strict accordance with operating procedures.
How to fix Your Product Goals for Better Human Outcomes
Mind the Product
JUNE 27, 2019
Hello product designers, this is for you. I want to talk to you about product goals, metrics, and how they get muddled in the product design process, leading to some less than humane outcomes. But first a little story.
Helping Product Managers to Let Go by Michael Sippey
Mind the Product
AUGUST 9, 2019
In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Michael Sippey, VP of Product at Medium, shares some insights on how to think big and create clarity and focus for product management teams to unleash their full potential. The Power of Optimism.
Lessons From the Space Race: 3 Steps to Better Product Decisions
Mind the Product
JULY 9, 2019
What makes a great product decision? The answer to this question is like the Holy Grail of product management: it promises success and prosperity but no clear evidence that it exists.
Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough
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Product is Hard by Marty Cagan
Mind the Product
JUNE 17, 2019
We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. There have been many successes and failures, and there are still lots more to come. Marty Cagan has worked at plenty of internet successes and failures, including eBay, Netscape and HP.
Shape Up – Ryan Singer on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Basecamp is well known for its approach to product development – after starting out as an agency (37 Signals), it realised that the tools it used to manage its own projects would have value for others.
How I Built an app Without Writing a Line of Code
Mind the Product
JULY 2, 2019
Once upon a time, if you wanted to create a new app or website and didn’t know how to code, you had few options: hire an expensive agency, scour the web for a decent freelancer, or learn to code. That meant investing a lot of your time or money, often without knowing if it would all be worth it.
Priming and the Science behind Onboarding
Mind the Product
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Priming is a powerful psychological tool in influencing consumer decisions and something product managers can use, to great effect, when onboarding new users. In this article, discover how and see examples of effective priming in play.
Schema Evolution Patterns
Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk
If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles. His talk will examine database schema changes and API versioning as two instances of schema evolution: how your systems respond when the structure of your structured data changes.
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