Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. It all started a few months ago… The Messy Challenge of Modern Product Discovery. Or you will be left wanting more.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. The post The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. She covers why she [.].

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2021

Pricing strategy can be one of the biggest challenges for product people, so we asked Founders Factory coach Fanni Fejes to share some of the lessons she teaches founders. The post Pricing Strategy for Product Dummies – Fanni Fejes on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Using metrics well. .

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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

The post Making Decisions That Scale – Julia Whitney on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. 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.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

One of the tropes we’ve heard again and again is that product people don’t actually build anything. And that idea of being attached to the idea of wanting to win, causes the destructive negative conflict, and instead of productive conflict between ideas, you end up with destructive conflict between individuals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2021

For most of us, the way that we conduct user research has been different during a year of lockdowns. Not so much for Anna Lee Anda, UX Research Manager at Zendesk — as someone with a global customer base, she’s been working with these techniques for ages. Remote research. She joined us on the podcast to talk [.]

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Roman’s new book is How to Lead in Product Management. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode. Who is Rambo ?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

The best product people are the ones that are insatiably curious, who want to learn more, who want to get better at all aspects of the job. As Head of Product at Founders Factory , a corporate-backed accelerator and incubator for early-stage startups based in London, Seb Sabouné works with founders and teams to become more product led.

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Mind the Product

JULY 2, 2019

Lucie McLean started on mobile products before the launch of the iPhone – she once held a phone for an illustration in a BBC article, and as a result, has some of the most famous hands on the internet. John T Gourville, Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers: Understanding the Psychology of New-Product Adoption in the Harvard Business Review.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 14, 2020

Building generic products. 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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Mind the Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Joe gave one of the most entertaining and engaging talks at Mind the Product in London 2018, so we followed [.]. Just call him Mr Joe. Quotes of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The post Putting OKRs at the Centre – Natalija Hellesoe on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Visit The Product Experience homepage for more information and more episodes! Chat to us on Twitter or in our dedicated Mind the Product #podcast Slack channel. We all know what OKRs are.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Tale of Two Products. I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A Tale of Two Products. I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Integrating product, development and UX effectively. Adrian’s video on Lean Personas at Mind The Product. 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.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the course of lockdown, how we maintain relationships with our nearest and dearest has been tested. The post Build Relationships With Your Customers – Fabrice des Mazery on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products book. Read More.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2020

She joined us to continue where her 2018 Mind the Product talk left off and to go deeper into how to build great communities with remote teams. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Sponsor us.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2019

Thor Mitchell knows his bones – he’s an ex-Google product manager (Maps and Google+ APIs) and was most recently the Chief Product Officer at Crowdcube. Following a talk at ProductTank Bristol, he joined us to chat about the advice he gives both to aspiring product managers and to those angling for leadership positions.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io Finding product/market fit. from an early stage.

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Mind the Product

JULY 21, 2020

All the sexy stories around product management come from startups, or revolve around working like a startup. The post Product In The Enterprise – Alicia Dixon on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Enterprise Product Management. Working with stakeholders. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

When you want to learn about the state of product management across Asia, there are two people who come to mind: Adrienne Tan (CEO and co-founder of Brianmates in Sydney) and Colin Pal (Chief Product Officer, Caterspot in Kuala Lumpur). That tiny little widget has implications for how someone might use and conceive your product.

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Mind the Product

JULY 7, 2020

Product people have a lot of things in common: we’re curious, we like connecting the dots, we try to solve more problems than we create, we get bored easily, we’re pretty social (even if we also identify as introverts), and we enjoy looking at things at both a tactical and strategic level. Unfortunately, we’re also [.].

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our go-to person to learn more about creating a great play experience is Melissa Pickering, Strategic Product Director at The LEGO Group. The post Designing for Play – Melissa Pickering on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. Evolving your product. . Evolving your product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

The industries that rely on video streams to provide their services include retail, entertainment, education, gaming, fitness, and even government. SSAI Server-Side Ad Insertion technology allows content owners to integrate ads into the stream avoiding buffering, ad-blockers, and watching experience interruptions.

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As always, thanks for reading and listening to our stories – we wish you all the very best over the holidays, and look forward to keeping you entertained and informed as we embark on the next chapter of this great adventure. You can’t always get what you quant: Bringing numbers to life through user research. Zara Burke , Lead Editor.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2019

Fittingly, the team’s selections crossed a range of publish dates, subjects and structures; from 1970’s era technical guidance on improving one’s own writing, to the latest and best thinking from the team at Google Ventures on how to make more time for what’s meaningful in your life. Jarell Cardoza, Product Marketing Manager ( @jarcardoza ).

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. He has been the product manager for this B2B audience. In testing you discover situations and scenarios that you hadn’t expected or planned for, he says. .

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

There was a 50% year-over-year increase in the number of surveys sent, with an average response rate of 16% (industry average for survey response rates is 1%). Simply giving customers the choice to opt into or out of surveys resulted in survey response rates of 60%. Brands shifted focus to improving long-term retention.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In October 2021, we surveyed over 1,000 senior executives in the US, with a goal to understand their digital appetite and aspirations for 2022. . The survey revealed interesting insights on Corporate America’s readiness for various digital initiatives, which we consolidated in our 2022 State of Digital Transformation report.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. Yesterday, I analyzed 60-plus randomly selected job ads from the UK, the US, and Germany for that purpose.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

A lot of information and knowledge comes your way when you’re a new Product Manager. But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) It can be a little overwhelming!

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Neil Rahilly VP of Product and Design, Mixpanel Neil Rahilly is the VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. He was the Director of Product at Slack, focused on growth in the freemium, self-service business. ‘ perspective.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Welcome to my newsletter on Substack, exclusively for Product Coalition members. The BCI SaaS Gold Rush has begun I’ll be honest, this has been one of the hardest newsletter topics to research and write. Sure, Grand View Research's latest market analysis gives us the big numbers - $1.9 billion market value, headed to $5.1

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2023

By facilitating the quick and efficient development of new content and data, this technology can potentially transform various industries, from entertainment to healthcare. It has the potential to transform industries like entertainment, art and design by opening up new avenues for human-machine cooperation.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What does it have to do with product management or product design? TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. It involves teams using their own product internally to identify issues and opportunities for improvement. Use surveys , interviews, session recordings, and product analytics to gather insights.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. Hardware, software and mobile technologies have become cheaper and easier to deploy, enabling small and mid-size companies to have access to similar if not better technologies than the big boys. But this competitive advantage is small.

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