Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Conference room screens hosted videoconferences with colleagues from faraway offices in Jakarta, San Paulo, and Dubai – sometimes simultaneously! At first glance Uber might just look like a simple app — after all, the premise was always to hit a button and get a ride. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. You may be an entrepreneur creating SaaS platforms or a product manager for an enterprise. The data backs it up. Author: Sachin Rekhi.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

His name is Eric. Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. Company name. Tell me about the last time you selected a tool for your team. Reassess Your Product Roadmap. Unbelievable! Who is this person?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2019

You’ll never know what it really feels like to present your product roadmap to your executive staff, for example, until you call that meeting and do it. What it is: The Product Stack is a coalition of like-minded organizations (full disclosure: ProductPlan is one of them) offering practical solutions for modern software teams.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2018

Challenges break into three buckets: (1) making authentic user validation a real priority alongside product planning, engineering partnership, sales support, and firefighting; (2) tools and processes; (3) building up interview techniques and research skills. I’ve had this discussion with scores of software executives.).

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The results are increased engagement, increased productivity, and better solutions. Turning Customer Interviews Into Tangible Features featuring Mike Belsito, Co-Founder of Product Collective and Organizer of INDUSTRY: The Product Conference at Product Collective. Your Customers Need You to Put Yourself First: Listen to Them!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. After seven years of building products and hearing from other’s failures and successes, Mind the Product and I understand that delivering a high quality platform is easier said than done.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. The result is this post on the SiriusDecisions Marketplace blog: Product Management Tools: One Company’s Journey. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. The result is this post on the SiriusDecisions Marketplace blog: Product Management Tools: One Company’s Journey. for product research https://t.co/tOhUF2leum

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. Maybe not actively, directly supporting hate groups, but allowing them to flourish on their platform. We did the research. Hi, everybody.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. Teresa: Okay.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Can we get access to the right tools? Lots of that.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

“ Atlassian is really at the forefront of agile development and did not only speak a lot of conferences about these topics, but also just drove that whole issue, that whole topic forward. So G2 in contrast to Atlassian is a marketplace, instead of a SaaS company. And then lastly, we also had a lot of thought leadership content.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. This is especially true for companies where product didn’t have its own independent seat at the executive conference table. With this approach, the roadmap is not dictated from a central authority.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app, Figma released multi-account to switch between personal and work design spaces, or Apple announced their M1 chip. Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Like many BoS speakers, Peldi comes to the conference every year regardless of whether he’s on stage.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Jason Fried is co-founder of Basecamp, a private company based in Chicago that builds the best web tools possible with the least number of features necessary. We’re best known for our product Basecamp which is a project management and collaboration tool We just launched a new thing called Hey recently which is a brand new email service.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

As your team grows, invest in operations and design systems that will help you scale efficiently. Case in point: our new Messenger, bots and App Store all work together to help businesses connect with their customers in new ways. And product is made up of design, product management, research and content design.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Your product roadmap is not a model, an algorithm or an artifact, it is an ongoing political process that requires careful management of the relevant stakeholders. Rich Mironov (CEO, Mironov Consulting) – What To Do About Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions from Business of Software Conference.

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ProductPlan

MAY 21, 2019

Oh, and you get to do all this while navigating a completely new corporate culture and learning the names and quirks of hundreds of new coworkers. Sunsetting your product because the acquirers were far more interested in acquiring talent, technology and/or customers than the product you manage. Sync up on roadmaps. Try it Free.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. Last fall, I spoke at Productized, a product conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on this very topic. Resources Mentioned. Windows ME.

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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. If they want to actually innovate, they need the time to get to know each other, their technology, their customers, and the business context. The product vision must be inspiring.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

How does a bootstrapped software company effectively market especially when its founders despise (and, in fact, suck at) sales and marketing? They offered solutions and suggestions for Sys Admins via content in blogs, KB’s, videos and webcasts. Last names notwithstanding we actually are identical twin brothers. Upcoming Events.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If the name doesn’t explain it all already, the best reason to post here to hire product managers is that you’re attracting applicants that are committed to pursuing or advancing their career in product management. Glassdoor ’s employee reviews and salary data make it a go-to resource for the research-loving candidate. ProductHired.

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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. Will any company perform this type of research for each product project? Probably not.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

Sometimes it takes a system design engineer and some cat gifs to really help you see what you’re doing and this funny and informative talk from Boston in 2019 has both! Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? April is returning to BoS in 2020!

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Bruce McCarthy (Founder, Product Culture) – Prioritization: Saying No To Good Ideas from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? My name is Bruce McCarthy. Upcoming Events. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Patrick Campbell (Founder/CEO, ProfitWell) – Not Being Terrible When Things Are Terrible from Business of Software Conference. And so just like ‘No, we’re a software company. Transcript.

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