Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:38]

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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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. To increase your expertise, strengthen your understanding of the market or domain and the product, as well as your product management savviness.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back. Three Types of Launch.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. 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.

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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.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? Here, I’ll explain how applying the hierarchy of value certainty, shown below, can help you to answer these questions and make your product profitable. A core skill of product management is prioritization.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

In the fifth year of #mtpcon San Francisco, 1,700 product people came together to celebrate our craft and learn from each other. Here is a look at what we learned from this year’s line-up of speakers: Product Challenges are Universal. Banish Your Inner Critic. Before we can understand our customers, we have to understand ourselves.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. We’ll start, as many philosophical discussions do, with a burger.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I opened this year’s Mind the Product London conference by suggesting that product management isn’t actually about managing products, but about managing people. I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together.

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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. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. As a Digital Team in a Large Enterprise.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Product management is evolving quickly. The days of gathering requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in long product requirements documents are vanishing. Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. into context and help product teams know what to use when.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this keynote from #mtpengage Manchester 2020 , Janna Bastow , co-founder of ProdPad and Mind The Product, discusses how in tech, optimising debt is essential to building the perfect product. While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. Watch the video to see her talk in full.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. As such, product gaps are opportunities for SaaS products to improve and grow.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Rich Mironov got his start in product with a a single, very demanding customer: Apple. Occasionally, I run into a CEO who had a really bad childhood. As the Head of Product, my job is create an environment where the can succeed. How the role of product management has changed. Why product managers tend not to become CEOs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Similar to Kubernetes, unless your team already has a lot of experience with microservices, most startups shouldn’t go near them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Product management is about solving problems. Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. Rohini Pondhi , product management lead for Square’s Invoices product, knows this challenge well.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Learning the Basics.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps.

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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. The North Star Metric is Sean’s way of quantifying the point where customers experience the value of your product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s research, it will be ready when it’s ready”? If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Here’s how. It was a great talk and I gave him my vote as well.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. Mind the Product co-Founder and co-Author of Product Leadership Martin Eriksson opened the world’s largest conference for passionate product people. Build products people love.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to attend a roundtable discussion for product leaders in London. There’s an increasing number of research tools, analytics providers and general reading material available, all pointing to the need for more evidence-based decision making. CEO vs Product Management.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. Frequently-Asked Product Roadmapping Questions. I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding. The TL; Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. When Hewlett-Packard ran with his ideas, it introduced an organizational structure where each product group functioned as a separate organization.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualitative research methods—such as interviews and observation—reveal what you don’t know. Quantitative research methods—such as surveys and experiments—reveal how many. Product and marketing teams seem to love surveys. Surveys grab a bunch of data quickly. Defines your product features).

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

If you work in Product Management and you haven’t heard of Rich Mironov, then best keep this to yourself, and jump onto his blog, pronto, where he’s been blogging about software product management for 18 years. When he’s not doing that, Rich also drops into San Francisco Bay area companies as an interim Head of Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Adam: Before Just Enough Research ? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat.

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