Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Over-allocated product managers are forced to cut corners, usually on direct customer validation and on product strategy. Coaching/mentoring/training plan.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I can’t tell you how many times I hear this sentiment on Twitter and LinkedIn. I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” And I hate it. Only 28.8%

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. Built on pillars of sustainability, innovation and inclusion, Blaise Transit improves and optimizes the user experience for multi-passenger vehicles fleet operators.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sprig —Build a product people love • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Vanta —Automate compliance. Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy. Simplify security.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Doing so provides enough time to for your brain to discern what to say next as the words come out of your mouth. Experiment the next time an unexpected question is placed your way, and let your brain do its thing. Keep repeating the experiment, and you’ll find it gets easier and easier over time.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. A junior product manager typically has some work experience under their belt already and can come from any background.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. And are they even needed? My answer is yes, they are needed.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. Without empowerment everything slows down and the people who are further away from what’s happening with customers make all the decisions. Point Towards the Mountain.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Lessons learned on leadership with Karen Peacock and Leandra Fishman. And the timing couldn’t be more urgent.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

“Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” We talk about value and business cases and backlogs instead of bluntly saying that “this customer request is an outlier, so I’ll never put it into my plan.” It certainly feels that way.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? To make things even more confusing, junior or first-time developers may not understand the terms used at different companies to describe software engineers. Junior engineers are typically freshly graduated or candidates with little previous experience.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

For an industry that depends on innovation, getting more women into tech and product is critical: success depends on creating products for a diverse community, and we can only do that if people with a broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives are at the table. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Delighting customers and creating innovative solutions for their problems dictates our priorities. A selfless approach based on customer empathy and satisfying stakeholders is an asset on the job, but less so for ourselves. To your users and customers? Product professionals get paid to manage products and services.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. 4 One Door at a Time. Sachin Rekhi, founder and CEO at Notejoy , a collaborative notes app for teams, writes about capturing user feedback. So do your customers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I actually took a lot of time to hire my teammate to make sure I chose the right one. how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. Yet, it can be very difficult to let go.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. Inspiration is a critical part of leadership.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Teresa: Who are your typical customers? What was going on at your company at that time?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 6 steps to being customer-centric and developing products customers want. Customer feedback is an important source of ideas for product managers. 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Recently, I did a little experiment. After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. of leadership roles. of leadership roles. I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level. But I also agree with Adam, there might be some custom work or tooling that you need. You don’t do that a little bit at the time.

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