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. Conference Tickets. Nir Eyal, Author and Investor. Leadership Forum.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. The post How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar appeared first on NextBigWhat. Key takeaways Figure out how to earn money every time a […].

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line. For about eight years before that, I was doing systems engineering work at Amazon.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2020

I had to say goodbye to my product manager job because I got fired Image Credit: Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash. Exactly How Does A Product Manager Get Fired? What this meant for the company is that they now had a product and, hat’s off to them, they realized that they needed a product manager. One is that you get laid off.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. Key takeaways Figure out how to earn money every time a […] More The post How and when to monetize your app: ixigo CTO, Rajnish Kumar appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After a long product career and founding multiple companies, Christian now spends his time working closely with product leaders at companies big and small to implement and improve their discipline of product management. People perceive product management negatively if they haven’t worked with great product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By retiring technologies proactively , you can remain focused on consistently moving the needle. While Tim has been able to utilize some management lessons from his time at behemoths like Facebook, having fewer resources at his startup has forced him to do one major thing: become ruthless about prioritization.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Industry: The Product Conference. Mind the Product.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Industry: The Product Conference. Mind the Product.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Industry: The Product Conference. Mind the Product.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. 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.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Such new-found emphasis on design without effective change management can appear to be a land-grab by those who stand to benefit most, while alienating other leaders in the organization. Perhaps your organization conducted any of the following: annual sales kick off conferences. user group events. annual investor days.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2019

We often think of our biggest blockers being external: a crazy CEO, recalcitrant CTO, surly engineers, or designers who just won’t do what we want them to. Product managers tend to have strong inner critics. We’ve established that imposter syndrome is common for product managers. We all have negative thoughts.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I’ll speak at three conferences. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). As an example, a performance goal may be something like: “I want to be the best product manager in ecommerce.”.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy Gustafsson (CEO/Founder, Darktrace) – Building A Billion Dollar Business: Managing Objectives Against Rapid Growth from Business of Software Conference. Video, Sketchnote, & Slides below. Sketchnote. Transcript coming soon… Upcoming Events. Free Q&A with Alex Osterwalder Psychology for UX Masterclass.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. As always, the #BoS2018 schedule is designed to help Software Founders, CEOs, and Product Managers lead with confidence and grow a better business. Over 12 years of Conferences we’ve seen over 200 talks given by some brilliant speakers. 2 // Peldi Guilizzoni.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 Almost every (non-engineer) CEO I talk with tells me that their development team needs to be much more productive – or is lazy – and their product managers are unresponsive or don’t understand the business.  I   ( Cassandra who was probably a product manager.)

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In this talk from BoS Europe 2020, Sally Foote (VP of ECommerce at GoCompare) shares her experience and expertise working with some high-profile digital businesses operating at scale to manage profitable growth and innovation in their organisations. why listening to your customers isn’t always a good idea. Video & Slides below.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Specifically, we’ll employ the help of the recently published 2023 State of Product Management Report. Traditionally, product managers have reported to either engineering or marketing leaders. This is especially true for companies where product didn’t have its own independent seat at the executive conference table.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption. Whenever I’m talking to my Marketing team about a conference or webinar, we always know that the most important ingredient is the client presenting. While planning an event.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. Discovery is a team sport.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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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. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

Four causes and fixes for Zoom Fatigue Sound advice, for regular meetings or online conferences. // 3 min read The End of Indie.vc Here are ten of the most interesting stories we’ve sent out to our community over the past month. Yes, we added an 11th to our top ten list. It’s good to push boundaries occaisionally!

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots of experience both presenting executive-facing roadmaps and receiving those presentations. The most common mistake product managers make in the roadmapping process is assuming they know exactly what to build without building consensus first.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. But if I’m the only manager, who’s flying the plane?

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Unfortunately the outcome was far from great, so when Jake Knapp (creator of design sprints) was listed to present at the conference Mind The Product 2017 I was not excited. The team includes the CEO and CTO providing executive level support. A few years ago, before I worked at Tes, I decided to try it.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We like to help all our subscribers with a full catalogue of interesting and insightful talks from our previous Business of Software conferences. You are probably too small at this point to employ internal recruiters who take this on board but as the country/territory manager, you should take ownership of the process. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When we welcome new subscribers to the Business of Software newsletter, we point them towards our catalogue of talks from previous conferences. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. #BoSFAQ – Your questions, answered by our expert speakers. Q&A with Rich Mironov.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. Focus on attracting content creators to a new video platform, or sellers to a new marketplace, or the project managers inside a company to a new workplace app. The other side of the network will follow.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2019

Business of Software Conference Europe 2019, 11-12 April 2019, Cambridge UK. This April we’re running our 18th Business of Software Conference. Claire Lew is the CEO of Know Your Team, a software tool that helps managers become better leaders. How can I maintain a focus and trust as we grow?

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 10, 2020

She then went on to become managing director of Dragonmobility, the not-for-profit that gives to others the specialist powerchairs which made it all possible for her. Don't miss out - sign up now: The post The Effort:Experience Ratio | Ruth Everard, DragonMobility | BoS Europe 2019 appeared first on Business of Software USA.

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