Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

However, to learn more, you’ll have to listen to the man himself as he develops the topic at the 2024 Product Drive Summit. TL;DR Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways who strongly believes that great product teams build great products. A sample product manager persona for Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you, whether that’s conferences related to your product or meetups organised by like-minded people. The most obvious carrot in many cases is a tech conference that fits your target customer audience. It’s not a conference’s job to do a good job for you.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

Troubleshooting a poor product launch. 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. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. What’s not fine, Janna says, is when tech debt is accrued without intention; because this happens when there isn’t a shared understanding of how the product will be built, and tech debt usually arises outside the control of the tech team.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Next Conference: BoS Europe, 25-26 March 2024, Cambridge UK Cohen wanted to stick with the blog but didn’t want to stick with following the ‘rules’ of the ‘experts’. ‘So, Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. So, I decided, screw blogging. This is liberating.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit? My name is Jacob.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. CEO vs Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. The second half?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. At the moment he coaches the teams doing the work, but he’s starting to coach business leaders about product strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2018

Today he’s the founder and CEO at GrowthHackers , whose software, community and annual conference help teams work together to drive breakout growth results for “must have” products and services. Sean: I came up with the phrase because I thought startups had no choice but to be super focused on growth.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Mind the Product co-Founder and co-Author of Product Leadership Martin Eriksson opened the world’s largest conference for passionate product people. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Occasionally, I run into a CEO who had a really bad childhood. I’m happy when my team picks whatever framework they like – whatever flavour of scrum or kanban or agile something else, or any process they want to use, I don’t care how they write user stories – if they write user stories.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2024

tip: stories work with stakeholders and recruiters too) E is for Evaluation What metrics will you use to measure your job search or career development progress? Share People-First Product Leadership Once a Product Manager, Always a Product Manager Stepping away when you feel burnt out is never a bad thing. Want some help?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

She has been based in Singapore for the past two years, will be speaking at BoS Conference USA Online as well as running online product masterclasses in the lead up to the event. Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I spoke to Lean Startup coach Tristan Kromer at Lean Startup Week earlier this month, where he presented a workshop about a “lean experiments toolbox”. He is also editor and primary author of the Real Startup Book and runs lean consulting firm TriKro LLC. Iteration Velocity – How quickly is the team running experiments?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

Fast-forward 6 years and I have worked on marketing strategy with several startups and small businesses, mostly SaaS businesses, and I have seen them make the same mistakes that had almost folded my business when I was a rookie 23 year-old. And that’s probably why so many startups fail to do their marketing positioning right.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud? It failed because we weren’t all-in, not because the product was bad, but because the go-to-market model was completely wrong.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2019

What used to be misplaced somewhere between Gantt charts and marketing plans, is now considered vital for developing succesfull products. We product managers started to embrace our newly gained importance, by celebrating the craft on conferences, meetups and Medium posts. Even when there is disagreement on the approach?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? He gathered a team of like-minded design enthusiasts to shape the future of digital design and innovation. Apart from helping clients with product design, we also develop digital products in-house.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

She’s worked in product from early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies like Rackspace and Square, a company with the sensitive task of handling customers’ money. Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. ” Michelle: I know.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. Agency-like Business Model.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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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. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s heart-breaking that, after all the effort that goes into developing and launching a new Product, from so many different people, 40% of product launches fail. Among his other achievements Kent founded a tech startup in the USA with 2 employees and then grew and scaled it to a global team of 60 in 3 countries before a successful exit.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? I’m looking at human conversation as a model for all interactions with digital systems.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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