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? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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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. Conference Tickets. Nir Eyal, Author and Investor.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. . My Role is a Product. I enjoy 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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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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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? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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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. Upcoming Events.

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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. 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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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. What would that look like?

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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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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.

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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 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

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 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. I thought “maybe a chance to catch up on the mountain of emails growing from being out of the office”. which was one of my mistakes the first time round.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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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. And of course, to help you deliver a better product to your customers. Mistakes I’ve Seen When Presenting Executive Roadmaps. Scope it out.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

attendee from Businesses of Software Conference, both US, Europe and online. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers. I always think there’s a couple different products, right? The Culture Map.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I took the Tes product team to Mind The Product conference 2017 in London where Jake spoke on design sprints. We picked one of our big product strategic bets where we had a plenty of known unknowns. The week as a great success and the product manager knew exactly what to do next.

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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. 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. 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. Mind the Product.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Agile Conference, IEEE Conference Publications (2009): 333-337. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis. Ellen Gottesdiener is an internationally recognized leader in the convergence of agile + requirements + product management + project management. References. Jakobsen, C.R. EBG Consulting.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

With that understanding, our focus shifts to the landscape for product-led organizations in 2023. Specifically, we’ll employ the help of the recently published 2023 State of Product Management Report. The data from that report has some interesting implications for companies that are on their own product-led journey.

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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 ). How did that product manager get access to those end users?

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Fortune 500 companies Laura Erdem – Senior Sales Manager at Dreamdata Else van der Berg – Interim Product Lead, Advisor and Coach Frida Ahrenby – CMO at Rillion , CMO to Watch 2024, Board Member and Tech & Start-up Advisor Oana Manolache – Founder & CEO at Sequel.io Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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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. Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Upcoming Events.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. Pete Peterson , Head of Global Product Design (San Francisco, CA): We need to encourage participation in conferences that are centered around women in tech.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker (CEO, DataSift) – “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times”: Every CEO Ever… 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? We had one of our execs in our New York office.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

TL;DR Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is an author, speaker, coach, and the founder of Product School. He spearheads various initiatives to promote innovation and excellence in product management. Carlos's session explores how leading product teams navigate digital transformations and harness AI for success.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. And how do we structure the teams?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team 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? This is a business conference. Upcoming Events.

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