Mind the Product

MAY 3, 2019

“Do you like the conference so far?” We may say “there is no such thing as a dumb question,” but in research, this isn’t true. Many product managers will say their foremost challenge is “being able to conduct proper research to validate whether the market truly needs what they’re building”.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

quickly adopted curbside services during the coronavirus pandemic and launched in-app surveys to better understand the customer experience. Nicole Lanni, Consumer Insights Manager at Gap Inc. uses consumer insights-led research to help key business partners understand the customer experience. For example, Gap Inc.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 25, 2020

In this MTP Engage Manchester talk, Mayukh Bhaowal, Director of Product Management at Salesforce Einstein , takes us through how product managers must adjust in the era of artificial intelligence and what they must do to build successful AI products. Scaling from Research to Production.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2022

How big of an impact can the right product tool make on your product management efforts? The answer depends on your use case and which tool you choose. But with the right tools for the job, a product manager can make some truly transformative contributions to product development.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 10, 2018

At #mtpcon San Francisco, Leisa Reichelt , head of research and insights at Atlassian, took on our current approach to user research and how we take an evidence-based approach to doing completely the wrong thing. Five years ago, the industry was focused on just getting people to do any user research. Common Research Mistakes.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Boston area may just be the best place to be a product manager today. Bloomberg compared states based on R&D, productivity, high-tech density, concentration of STEM* employment, science/engineering degree holders, and patents with other areas. Reason #2: One of the highest concentrations of product managers anywhere.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process. 2017 Product Conferences.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Researchers often have concerns about what will happen when “other people” go out and do work with users. But the demand for research far outweighs the supply of researchers, and everyone wins when more people are enabled to do research themselves. Planning Research. What method of research should I use?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How can the product be built? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: how do you grow a gated product? Zack began his career as a product designer before moving into product management and then growth roles. And they said, “An iOS app.”

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. Product management is changing. We are evolving from managing our teams by outputs to managing them by outcomes. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. My slides and script are below. Tweet This.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” and wondered how it’s different from traditional product management. This guide takes a deep dive into the world of technical product management , showing you how to become one of these in-demand professionals.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

In the fifth year of #mtpcon San Francisco, 1,700 product people came together to celebrate our craft and learn from each other. Here is a look at what we learned from this year’s line-up of speakers: Product Challenges are Universal. Mind the Platform. Denise Jacobs on banishing your inner critic. Who are we solving it for?

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ProductPlan

MAY 3, 2023

While this sometimes makes sense for our products—prioritizing net new functionality or fixing bugs over improving issues with palatable workarounds—this mentality really sets us back with our internal tools and processes. Your business is more than just the product on a shelf or in an app store, it’s the entire operation.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. But a prioritisation tool might help.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management,” says Teeba. “I I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery. “I

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. The courses helped me to understand the basics of product management.

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Mind the Product

JULY 26, 2019

Mind the Product has been my favorite conference ever. million impressions on Twitter and 1,650 passionate product people in the room, Mind the Product continues to be the biggest product conference in the world, and – thanks to all that engagement by our speakers and audience – it’s also the best.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2021

Good Product Managers make decisions based on the world as it is today. Great Product Managers make decisions based on how the world is going to be tomorrow. Instead of using tools like Zoom and Skype for occasional work conferences, we use them to catch up with friends, family and colleagues on a constant, daily basis.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt.

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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. Maybe not actively, directly supporting hate groups, but allowing them to flourish on their platform. We did the research. Hi, everybody.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I opened this year’s Mind the Product London conference by suggesting that product management isn’t actually about managing products, but about managing people. I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Nick Christakis research. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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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.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Todd Lombardo reminds us that as product managers we often make bad decisions. The key to minimising these, he says, is effective product research. Key points: All product managers make bad decisions. Todd explains that even the most experienced and effective product managers make bad decisions.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon London, Jonny Schneider, Product Strategy and Design Principal at ThoughtWorks, discusses how using all of design thinking, agile, and lean means we can build better products. Key points: You should try to use design thinking, agile and lean when building your products.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

In 2017, Teresa Torres gave one of our favourite talks on the Mind the Product stage, introducing the concept of Opportunity Solution Trees. Tools: Omnigraffle , Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard). The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Can we get access to the right tools?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 15, 2017

At Mind the Product our mission is to further the craft of product management by bringing together product people of all stripes to share their stories and experiences. And at our #mtpcon conferences and some of our ProductTank meetups we film those stories so we can share them as widely as possible.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. He explains how to conduct an AI-powered design sprint that transforms product concepts into clickable prototypes in just hours instead of weeks.

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