Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Mind the Product

MAY 10, 2019

Throughout his long career, Kenneth Chin, now the Chief Product Officer for Seek Asia, has worked with and led product teams around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, and across Asia. This is one of the core behaviours in many individuals and teams across Asia, and it can have interesting effects. It’s Not All Bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” .” But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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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. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. Nothing beats meeting real users.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 23, 2023

How product managers can gamify their products, process, and career I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. ” In our competitive landscape, businesses constantly seek innovative ways to captivate users and empower their teams.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2016

And the classic belief was that we would be able to achieve our goals if we just had a few more people on the team. Increasing your team size early on therefore increases your cost of communication. Therefore the smaller your team size, the lower the communication overhead that you experience. Reduced communication overhead.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team. The agile product team believes that if they keep on pushing small increments then everything will be okay. Steps, that develop the ideas and test them.

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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.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. What’s not fine, Janna says, is when tech debt is accrued without intention; because this happens when there isn’t a shared understanding of how the product will be built, and tech debt usually arises outside the control of the tech team.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud? It failed because we weren’t all-in, not because the product was bad, but because the go-to-market model was completely wrong.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. It’s a very positive shift, for feedback is essential for growth and development. Lead by example, and demonstrate the skills and behaviors that you want to see in your team members.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you, whether that’s conferences related to your product or meetups organised by like-minded people. The most obvious carrot in many cases is a tech conference that fits your target customer audience. It’s not a conference’s job to do a good job for you.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In retrospect, it was probably the best place to start, given that external development teams are now more commonplace.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Mind the Product co-Founder and co-Author of Product Leadership Martin Eriksson opened the world’s largest conference for passionate product people. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 21, 2018

Most of these organizations are also using some form of stage-gate for the development of new products. I met Colin at the annual PDMA conference and enjoyed his insights for making stage-gate more agile. Stage-gate is an approach for developing new products across industries. For the more than 80 percent of U.S.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 17, 2025

Lack of Trust: Buyers, especially procurement teams, feel that buying software is worse than buying a used car because they don’t trust that they are being treated fairly or uniformly. Make it part of your product development lifecycle. This has ethical and legal risks and sets a bad internal precedent.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Developing a growth culture at Dropbox. Put us in the conference room in those days.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way. What is a product owner?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

This conference is built by product people, for product people, and the strength of the German product community has allowed it to happen. And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. By providing ownership and creative freedom, teams at Booking.com are empowered to craft experiments based on well-defined user problems.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Rich sat down with Ivy Hornibrook, Leading the Product conference ambassador , to talk all things Product Management. Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Agile development is simply a methodology for building software.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

Troubleshooting a poor product launch. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. This year Lily will be launching ProductCamp in Bristol and she joins the MTP team as co-host of The Product Experience podcast. The Kano model.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit? My name is Jacob.

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