Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. This concept split the team. Looking back, this was a bad MVP. We had 12 half-completed new products in development.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions at Ramsey Solutions The product team at Ramsey Solutions is 40+ squads strong.

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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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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. Build, test, improve.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Before even considering a project for building in an upcoming cycle, the Basecamp team always shapes the work.

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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. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups. He has global responsibility for developing cutting edge technology and competitive advantage for Ford by developing relationships and collaborative projects involving universities and partner companies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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Modus Create

APRIL 10, 2024

Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators , where our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the seventh episode, we bring you Larry Fitzpatrick , Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial. It exhibits behaviors we might label as bad in humans.

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A cryptocurrency project is a venture or initiative that involves the development, launch, and management of a new cryptocurrency or blockchain platform. A typical cryptocurrency project will have a team of developers, economists, investors, and advisors who work together to bring the project to fruition.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  When prospects say they need something, sales teams mostly take them at their word.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2020

They also know how to motivate the team and help them adapt and look for better ways to build the product. The success depended on us being a team way more than on each of us being a great dancer. A few years ago I used to work very closely with a CTO on building a SaaS product. The same goes for PMs.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. You need to hire a team, obtain office space, and start creating a buzz about your company. It’s time to build your product.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. They cared about my team. So how do we do this how do we manage this badass team?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide. Apart from helping clients with product design, we also develop digital products in-house.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But as data-driven decision making takes on increased significance, we’ve seen “ product ops ” emerge to fill in the gap between the leadership and vision aspects of the product management and the facts and figures that inform team members. Manage experiments: We all love A/B testing. You’ll need to understand what tools you’re using.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. So Marie, you’re the chief product officer and you’ve been at the offsite with the exec team recently, where all of this was discussed.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

I wrote this page for the team saying you know the fact that it’s too much around me it’s a limiting factor in the pursuit of our company’s mission. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams. And I told the team keep calm and carry on and you know we can do it. All at once.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. We all have good and bad days. They're testing me." I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Giving your CS team is dependent on your company values and needs. As Customer Success Operations becomes central to most companies, the growth of the CS team and professional role is leading to an opening of the profession. They carefully chose the talent on their teams to suit their needs. Complex and fast?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

On the casino side what we developed was a machine which allowed you to play on four roulette wheels simultaneously. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. People, people in the team. So a big unintended consequence that. And it seemed an absolute no brainer.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! So natalie what did you do to to help your team right now? Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele. Natalie Nagele.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2024

  If I have 90k visitors per day to the “choose your favorite artists” flow of my music streaming app, I can reasonably test alternate designs in an hour.    We might be running 50 simultaneous A/B tests each day.    Sales teams escalate to the CEO because it works. 

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. We had high relevance.

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