188 
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.
Mind the Product
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.
Enabling Outcome-Oriented Product Organisations Through OKRs by Sonja Mewes
Mind the Product
AUGUST 16, 2019
While most product people can agree on the attributes of an effective goal, turning them into tangible results is a different story. Goals quickly lose their effectiveness when product teams are not able to link them to the actions of their daily work.
Platform Management by Brandon Chu
Mind the Product
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.
How To Take Action on Customer Discovery
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
We all want to build successful products - and that means satisfied customers. Before anything else, you must understand what problems you can solve. The best way to do that is to get out of the building and start asking questions. But how can you make the most of those conversations, and ensure that you walk away with productive insights? Join Nick Noreña, educator, entrepreneur, and currently Innovation Coach and Advisor at Kromatic, as he covers how we can effectively action our findings from customer discovery conversations.
Transform me, but Please Don’t Change Anything by Gabrielle Bufrem
Mind the Product
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.
|
The Secret Weapon of Retrospectives – the Team Radar
Mind the Product
JULY 16, 2019
You know that moment when you realise that something is not quite right in the team? Often you think you know straight away what needs improvement, but for some reason the team can’t see what you’re seeing. What’s wrong with them? It’s so obvious! There’s nothing wrong with them.
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.
Thank you for Coming Together to Hone our Craft at #mtpcon SF 2019
Mind the Product
JULY 26, 2019
Last week we gathered 1,650 passionate product people from 34 countries around the world in San Francisco for two days of learning, sharing, and honing our craft.
Build Product Progress with a Strong Data Culture
Speaker: Nima Gardideh, CTO, Pearmill
Have you ever thought your product's progress was headed in one direction, and been shocked to see a different story reflected in big picture KPIs like revenue? It can be confusing when customer feedback or metrics like registration or retention are painting a different picture. No matter how sophisticated your analytics are, if you're asking the wrong questions - or looking at the wrong metrics - you're going to have trouble getting answers that can help you. Join Nima Gardideh, CTO of Pearmill, as he demonstrates how to build a strong data culture within your team, so everyone understands which metrics they should actually focus on - and why. Then, he'll explain how you can use your analytics to regularly review progress and successes. Finally, he'll discuss what you should keep in mind when instrumenting your analytics.
|
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.
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.
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.
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.
What Is (and Isn’t) Product Management?
Speaker: Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute
Product Management is one of the most exciting - and most misunderstood - functions in technical organizations. Is it strategic or tactical? Is it a planning role or a support role? Many product professionals are unclear about what is (and isn't) product management. After all, product management spans many activities from business planning to market readiness. In this session, we’ll examine many product activities and artifacts for product strategy, planning, and growth, and introduce a simple tool that you can use in your organization to clarify the roles of product management and others. Steve Johnson explores the many roles of Product Management in this fun talk focused on why product managers should obsess on problems instead of solutions.
Can Product Culture Save Media? by Anita Zielina
Mind the Product
JULY 12, 2019
Anita Zielina’s keynote at this year’s MTP Engage Hamburg addresses the question of whether “product culture” can save the media industry.
How Culture Add Changes the Conversation on Hiring
Mind the Product
JUNE 25, 2019
You might know the term culture fit. You might even use it day-to-day, but hiring for culture fit could be having a hugely detrimental effect on your product organization. You may be limiting your ability to meet customer needs because of an unconscious bias across your organization.
The Daily Standup is Broken, What Should You Do Now?
Mind the Product
AUGUST 12, 2019
The standup meeting, or daily scrum, as a team information-gathering staple has evolved into dogma , and especially tech dogma, over time. Not only did it seem like everyone was doing standups as their default way of conveying project context, it felt like there wasn’t an alternative.
Why is Psychological Safety at Odds With the way we Work?
Mind the Product
AUGUST 6, 2019
In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career.
The 5 Levels of Analytics Maturity
Advertisement
Basic dashboards used to be enough to thrill end users. But over time, modern capabilities have emerged—and bare-minimum features are no longer cutting it. How have analytics changed? And where do your BI offerings fall short? Find out sophisticated ways to future-proof your application. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
Empowered Product Teams by Marty Cagan
Mind the Product
JUNE 7, 2019
At this year’s MTP Engage conference in Hamburg I had the pleasure to introduce my personal product management idol Marty Cagan to our audience. He spoke about one of his favourite topics: empowered teams.
Product Management is Simple, but Very, Very Hard
Mind the Product
MAY 20, 2019
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain. At its core Product Management is about making choices between countless possibilities to deliver value to the end user while meeting organisational goals and constraints. Simple huh?
When in Product, do as the Romans do
Mind the Product
JULY 4, 2019
The Roman legion was one of the best-run organisations of the ancient world, and outright the most successful military unit for the better part of eight centuries. This in itself makes it interesting for some (like myself) as a topic for study, but understandably it’s not for everyone.
What’s in the DNA of Product People?
Mind the Product
JUNE 6, 2019
I think there’s nothing better than talking to product people – they are my kind of people. The reason I say this is because product people put their hands up to serve right in the center of organisations where the competing pressures of business, technology, and the customer intersect.
Make an Impact with Analytics and Journey Maps
Speaker: Kirui K. K., Co-founder and CEO of Tanasuk Africa
If you want to offer a better user experience, it can be tempting to track each and every data point in your product. However, this can quickly get complicated and overwhelming as you collect more and more data. How do you know which metrics will help you improve? Kirui K. K., Co-founder & CEO Tanasuk Africa, wants you to know that analytics don't have to be complicated to make an impact - no matter the size of your company. Join him as he explains how to create a customer journey map, then use that map to figure out the metrics you need to know - and how to use them.
Why Product Demos are so Valuable
Mind the Product
MAY 30, 2019
When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders.
Outcomes Over Outputs – Josh Seiden on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
JULY 23, 2019
A nice bit of serendipity this week: this week’s guest, Josh Seiden, had his new book ( Outcomes Over Output ) recommended in last week’s episode by guest Rich Mironov.
The Mindset of Empowerment by Laura Scanga
Mind the Product
AUGUST 15, 2019
As a product manager you’re the monkey in the middle. You have multiple stakeholders, all with different and sometimes competing demands, and it’s your job to manage these.
Lean Mean Product Machine – Dan Olsen on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
JULY 9, 2019
After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup.
The Magic of Intent: Start Knowing The Goals of Your Users
Speaker: Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, Zalando, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher, Zalando
It's important to know your users - what are their preferences, pain points, ultimate goals? With user research and usage data, you can get a great idea of how your users act. The tricky part is, very few users reliably act the same way every time they use your product. Join Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher at Zalando, as they explain how they were able to reach a new level of user understanding - by taking their user research and segmenting their users by point-in-time intent. You'll leave with a strategy to change how your product team, and organization at large, understands your users.
The ABCs of Product – Melissa Perri on The Product Experience
Mind the Product
MAY 8, 2019
Melissa Perri is the product manager’s product manager – she’s able to do the job, explain it, and teach you how to do it better.
How we set up our Team for Continuous Product Discovery
Mind the Product
JUNE 20, 2019
The Dilemma With Product Discovery.
In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit
Mind the Product
JUNE 18, 2019
Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening.
What Monzo Learned From Scaling its Lending Team
Mind the Product
MAY 13, 2019
I’m a product manager at Monzo. We’re a UK-based bank and our mission is to make money work for everyone. We recently reached 1,800,000 current account customers – after launching in January 2018 – and are focusing on growing our user base and revenue.
Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough
Advertisement
Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.
4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team
Mind the Product
MAY 21, 2019
Empowerment. It’s a word that business leaders often use to fire up their teams. But in all likelihood it causes those teams to groan, and not just because it’s a management buzzword. So why does something that is supposed to be good go wrong?
Killing Zombies – Lisa Long on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]
Mind the Product
AUGUST 13, 2019
We’re taking a short break from releasing new episodes for the month of August. We’ll be back with new interviews in September. But don’t despair! We’ve asked a few friends to pick some of their favorite episodes to re-broadcast in the meantime.
Hedging Your Bets – Lucie McLean on the Product Experience
Mind the Product
JULY 2, 2019
Lucie McLean started on mobile products before the launch of the iPhone – she once held a phone for an illustration in a BBC article, and as a result, has some of the most famous hands on the internet.
The Power of Thoughtful Research by Prakriti Parijat
Mind the Product
MAY 3, 2019
“Do you like the conference so far?” begins Prakriti Parijat of DBS Bank. After cheers from the #mtpcon Singapore crowd, she turns the response around: “What is wrong with that question?” Everyone immediately recognizes that it was a leading question.
Your Post-Launch Toolkit for Understanding Your Users
Speaker: Brittney Gwynn, former Director of Product, Simple Health
If you've ever launched an MVP, you know that the journey has only just begun. How do you figure out what to do next? You know that you need to look at how different user segments react, but how do you quickly distinguish signal from noise so you can iterate and improve? Join Brittney Gwynn, former Director of Product at Simple Health, as she explains how you can use early customer feedback, usage data, and continuous experimentation to optimize your journey to product-market fit. Whether you're at a brand-new company, or looking to innovate within a more mature organization, or anywhere in between, you'll come away with a new skill set, ready to make the most of your launches.
Let's personalize your content