Business of Software Conference

MARCH 20, 2025

Lightning talks at Business of Software Conferences are fast, focused and packed with insights. At BoS Europe 2025 , were excited to feature two lightning talks that tackle some of the biggest challenges in leadership and product development. Meet Steve McLeod and Gareth Marlow, two experts with practical wisdom to share.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

This means moving beyond rigid processes and embracing a more flexible, human-centered approach to product development and organizational strategy. Leading Innovation: Strategies for Success Navigating organizational resistance to innovation requires a delicate balance of leadership approaches.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2025

This means a developer might only spend 30-40% of their time actually coding – the core work they were hired for. This frees up vast amounts of time for strategic thinking, planning, and core tasks like design, development, or marketing. Zoom Fatigue & Overwork From 2020 to 2022, people spent 250% more time in meetings.

Feedback Software

People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 24, 2025

In today's newsletter, we'll explore why thoughtfulness is an undervalued leadership strength, especially in the wild world of AI and human collaboration. Subscribe now AI Revolution: Unleashing Our Human Superpowers We're witnessing a fundamental shift in leadership. Let's continue this leadership journey! Let’s talk.

Leadership

UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

That’s why it becomes crucial to develop real expertise in the industry your company operates in. Designers typically follow the “double diamond” model, which from a product manager’s perspective can seem slow and non-iterative, as it takes time before reaching the development phase. The best and most sustainable way to do that?

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Twice a year, the Business of Software Conference brings together some of the sharpest minds in software, product, and entrepreneurship. But this isnt just another conference, its a place where your assumptions get challenged, your ideas get stretched, and you walk away seeing things in a whole new light. Grab the Early Bird rate

Customer Experience

Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 11, 2025

Shirley’s leadership was revolutionary. Her company took on projects of extraordinary significance, including developing the Concorde’s black‑box flight recorder , and grew into a global enterprise eventually valued at around $3 billion , making many of her early staff millionaires. Steve was badass and a lovely person to know.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At this years Business of Software Conference Europe , were discussing frameworks, strategies, and lessons that help you push through uncertainty and come out stronger. Melissa Appel unpacks The Founders Guide to What Product Teams Need , clarifying the often-misunderstood relationship between leadership and product teams.

Artificial Inteligence

Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

A few members of our Marketing team recently attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2017 conference in Boston, one of the year’s largest events for marketing professionals. In her work with the organization, Gray leverages the knowledge of her field to lend leadership strategies for product management professionals.

Roadmap

Gainsight

MAY 29, 2025

The Digital Customer Success Disruptor is a forward-thinking leader who recognizes that the future of customer success depends on developing scalable, personalized experiences. Her leadership helped reframe CS as a strategic growth driver. She built the vision, rolled out the tools, and aligned the team directly to revenue.

Customer Communications

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA invited me to their conference, which was in Orlando, Florida, to interview some of their speakers. We can apply those ideas to spaces like creativity, innovation, and development and look at engagement from a variety of perspectives.

Development

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Product leader, author, and consultant Matt LeMay gave an enlightening presentation on developing your product team at the #mtpcon London 2023 Leadership Forum, which precedes the main London conference.

Development

Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Models like the Behavioural Change Stairway model or the model that was developed at Harvard, they both assume that negotiation isn’t a fight where we try and win and get the better of the other person, but it’s really a conversation… and it requires the willingness of both parties to open up. .

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article.

Product Management

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 7, 2023

The value the Product Development and Management Association provides for product mangers and leaders Today we are talking about the most influential professional product association you’ve likely never heard of. Register for PDMA’s 2023 Inspire Innovation Conference on September 16th-19th in New Orleans, LA, USA.

Research Software

Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

Leadership

Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) has been curating the body of knowledge for product managers, leaders, and innovators and helping them improve since 1976—the longest-running product management professional group.

Research Software

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Learn by speaking to people, reading extensively, getting to conferences/meetups and watching videos from around the web. In order to earn the trust of your leadership, you need to make sure you can deliver as effectively and efficiently as possible. The post Developing as a Product Manager appeared first on MindTheProduct.

Development

The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2021

Leadership coach Gordon Tredgold recently wrote a piece in Entrepreneur, The Real Difference Between Leadership and Management, and Why Most People Struggle to Make the Grade , on understanding how you can set yourself up for success in climbing the leadership ladder. Leadership Level 1? —?informal Leadership Level 2? —?hands-on

Leadership

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re beyond excited to be bringing our flagship conference #mtpcon – the world’s biggest and best product conference – to Singapore on March 25-26. All our conferences sell out so don’t miss out and grab your workshop tickets and conference tickets today! Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia.

Analytic Tools

ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For a unique fast track to learning and inspiration, however, conferences cannot be beat. We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). 14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders. SaaStr Annual.

Research Software

The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

In my view, he or she should have these main skills: manage the release process and roadmap prioritization, be able to suggest technical solutions during discussions with developers, and be knowledgeable in all the tools and terminology of the Agile process. I established my relationship with the team mostly through web conferences.

Product Management

Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Hershey chocolate company’s InnovationOps story I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. It starts with leadership. 4:47] What is InnovationOps?

Research Software

ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

Leadership

ProductPlan

APRIL 17, 2024

As a product manager, attending conferences is not just a part of professional development but an invaluable source of inspiration and learning. During the conference, I immersed myself in the world of product and attended various sessions that provided me with unique perspectives. What are you feeling uneasy about?

Customer Experience

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

Arguably, all the topics we address on this podcast are about career development, helping you improve in product management and innovation. For example, product management is a huge field, so you might decide to plant a flag in product management for the real estate industry or product leadership. [11:33] 11:33] Tell your story.

Product Management

Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. What skills are required to develop a great team of Product Managers?”.

Leadership

Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

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. Product leaders should think about how to support and develop all product managers, without assuming they want to become people managers.

Leadership

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? February Product Conferences. We are already halfway through the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have missed your chance at some quality conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

Research Software

Mind the Product

MAY 31, 2019

Day 1: Leadership Forum. We started with the first-ever MTP Leadership Forum in Hamburg , a decidedly intimate event for 40 product leaders. In between we held sessions on Product Strategy and Product Principles, on Managing Product Portfolios, and on Developing Product Managers. Day 3: Conference.

Workshop

Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

This helps the individuals embrace an agile mindset, take advantage of new techniques and tools—think of hypotheses-driven strategy validation, goal-oriented product roadmaps, and user stories—and effectively collaborate with the agile development teams. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

Product Management

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Where we used just to have to rely on Marty Cagan’s book Inspired , we now have books on a diverse range of product management topics, from product leadership to roadmapping. Today product management is a global community, with many established conferences and training programmes to support it. How can CTOs Help?

CTO

Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 16, 2018

My students often are in a leadership role in their organization and I’m helping them with product innovation. So, when I was at a product conference and met the person who helped orchestrate Apple’s original product process that is still used today, you can understand why I was excited. It’s also a good choice.

Data Visualization

Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2018

Telenor has limited resources to spend on developing digital products. Each product is assessed by its level of completion of the requirements for each stage of development, and this assessment translates into the categorization of the product. Why Product Review? Frequency of Product Reviews.

Systems Review

Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

As we settle into the New Year we’re already looking ahead to the product leadership forums on our 2020 MTP calendar. As our leadership forums are conducted under the Chatham House rule, you’ll not see any direct quotes from our forums. How has the person you manage developed as a result of that experience?

Leadership

Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

As product-specific skills are crucial, I find that many product managers and product owners strive to develop these capabilities. As these skills form a large set, I like to divide them into three sub groups: strategic, tactical, and leadership capabilities, as the picture below shows. Developing Your Vertical Skills.

Product Management

Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Developing Your own Team. Product leaders have many questions – and even more answers – about how best to develop and empower their teams. Another key function of product leadership is to drive collaboration with other parts of the business.

Leadership