Mind the Product

APRIL 30, 2019

I attended ProductCamp London earlier this month and it brought home to me why I get so much value from this “unconference” style of conference. I am that person who attends conferences and signs up for product demos just to get some free swag. No Big-name Speakers. So what makes the unconference style so useful?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. Balancing Specific and Generic Skills. But as important as they are, they are not enough.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. While this might have been the case in the early days of product management, it’s not anymore. Martin Eriksson’s seminal post on being a product manager shows that they sit in the centre of tech, business, and user (customer).

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers.

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bpma ProductHub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In B2B product management, tactical, operational and strategic refer to layers in the customer organization – not your job responsibilities. Master each of these customer domains and the next rung on the product management career ladder awaits. Before your mind wanders too far, let’s set the record straight.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software. The Foundation: Immediate Access to a Diverse set of Customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 29, 2021

A framework for product managers to dig deep into their customers’ needs. I am changing the name of the podcast to Product Mastery Now. The new name is coming soon. The logo will look the same—just the name is changing. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [10:08] Innovation Quote.

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Melissa Perri

DECEMBER 29, 2023

But my heart was set on Product Management. If we'd really covered all there was to cover on Product Management, why were folks clamoring for more of my blog posts? Why was I getting invited to speak at conferences left and right? Test the waters with conference talks, blog away, throw your thoughts out on social media.

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ProductCraft

JANUARY 4, 2019

Last January, LinkedIn named product management one of 10 most promising careers of 2018, with 30 percent more job openings year over year and a career advancement score of 8 out of 10. Glassdoor named it the ninth best job in America, with more job openings. 2018 was a good year to be a PM.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. Many tech companies that make voice assistants justify their use of female names and voices by saying that’s what people prefer.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Next move…sprinkle in industry specific features (20%) on a cross-industry (80%) platform to form out-of-the-box solutions for the named vertical segments. Never gonna be!

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 8, 2019

Whether you are moving from a product management position from one company to another or hunting for your first job in product management – it’s an exciting journey full of ups and downs. So make sure that your name and CV gets looked at regularly. How to Present Yourself in Your CV. Call the agency or a specific agent.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

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. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I caught up with Louis for a conversation that ranged from our moral duty to make information more accessible to his approach to curating conferences. Each speaker at one of Lou’s conferences is supported by a group of subject matter experts and a professional editor. We’ve since expanded into the conference-production business.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

If your conference proposal has a speaking experience field, use that field to explain your expertise, authority, and credibility. These fields help the potential audience realize your session is the one they must attend, out of the entire conference. I want to be the reason people come to a conference. Am I always?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2019

This connection to both APAC hubs and major international airports played a key part in our decision to bring the conference to the city. The reputation of our conferences is founded on our ability to secure the world’s most inspirational speakers on product management. A Line-up of Inspirational Speakers. Giles Lewis, Coupang.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

MTP Engage is the smaller sister of the #mtpcon product conferences in London and San Francisco, and this year we had close to 400 people at the main event (25% more than last year). The night before the conference we put together eight different groups of product people and sent them out to some of our favourite Hamburg restaurants.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

As the curator of the world’s two largest product conferences , I get approached all the time about getting on the #mtpcon stage. Fundamentally, a Mind the Product conference is all about the speakers and their talks. This is the TED of product conferences after all! Exceptional Speakers. No Fireside Chats or Panels.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 22, 2024

Five mindsets every product manager should cultivate I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2017

We wanted to live up to the event’s name and help people engage – and it worked out: Several attendees compared the event to a “class reunion” and spent the day’s long breaks chatting with old and new contacts. and our photographer @mr_mo is product manager, too): Sketchnotes. (and Great conference, perfectly organised.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Dear Santa, It’s me again – your favorite product manager! And I always put outcomes over outputs, just like a good product manager should. So in the hope that I have done enough to find my name on the Nice List, here is my wish list this Christmas: Autonomy to manage my roadmap. Sincerely, Product Manager.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2020

to take your virtual seat in our virtual conference hall, and to hear product leaders from across the globe give talks. ” Product Management in the Time of Corona. Dian Rosanti inspired us to try new ways of managing our time. “All of our product managers and designers engage with customers,” she said.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. What does product management include?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. Lots of us are still trying to work out what the scope of a product management role should be and how it should be applied within their organisations. Perhaps product management is becoming a misnomer? Scope of the job.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

His name is Eric. As a product manager, you usually should take responsibility for these. As well as product managers, stakeholders, marketing, sales, and dev representatives should attend a persona workshop. Company name. As the name of this exercise promises: we developed a 20/20 vision of Eric’s needs.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In this blog post, we’ll meet some key players in our ‘cyan army’, to show you what goes on behind the scenes at our conferences. “It’s so fun to be part of” Day-to-day Lisa Radel is a product manager at XING but she regularly volunteers her spare time to support the product community.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Late last year, I spoke at the Predict Conference on how we built Resolution Bot, our intelligent support chatbot that can instantly resolve common questions. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? Key takeaways.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Systems Thinking for Product Managers. In her talk she looks at products as complex systems and lookes into how systems thinking relates to our practice as product managers. We want to live up to the name of our event and give various opportunities for attendees to engage. Johanna Kollmann.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 24, 2020

Five steps to securing success in product management in an uncertain world. Arguably, all the topics we address on this podcast are about career development, helping you improve in product management and innovation. His name is Jeff Gothelf and, as a product guy, he will give you the 5 activities for being forever employable.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. I knew by the end of the first week that product management was the job I’d been looking for since graduating from college. 7 years ago, I started working at my first tech startup.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David has more than two decades of portfolio and innovation management experience. Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It’s no coincidence that product ethics has become a popular topic on conference stages over the last few years. As product managers, we are trained to think about the edge-cases in our products. I used to manage a travel app called TripCase that allowed you to track your travel. We All Need to Think About Product Ethics.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. And that’s why, when I list off Windows, iOS, Facebook, those are some of the biggest names. Managing partner relationships. We launched the Intercom App Store more than a year ago.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 18, 2019

My SiriusDecisions colleague Cristina De Martini and I are looking at agile adoption — not just within product management, but across multiple functions/departments including marketing and sales. Product Management Events This Spring. Foundational Behaviors of Strategic Product Management.”

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Altruistically – building the product management capacity of New Zealand, which we’ve identified as being a gap that’s holding our industry back from being more successful globally. We’re as far as it is possible to be from all three of the main Mind the Product conferences (which we may have mentioned before…).

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 30, 2020

I already wrote about it in Product Management Blog Retrospective and in Launch a Podcast like a Product Manager. It means I managed to reach and touch so many people and hopefully help them in small things in their work that I personally had to learn the hard way. It means you managed to get good content out there.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 30, 2020

I already wrote about it in Product Management Blog Retrospective and in Launch a Podcast like a Product Manager. It means I managed to reach and touch so many people and hopefully help them in small things in their work that I personally had to learn the hard way. It means you managed to get good content out there.

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