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Mental Health as a Product Person – Let’s Talk

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Thank you for Coming Together to Hone our Craft at #mtpcon SF 2019

Last week we gathered 1,650 passionate product people from 34 countries around the world in San Francisco for two days of learning, sharing, and honing our craft. It started with nearly 600 attendees deep-diving into new skills during a day full of workshops and product leadership discussions, followed by a fantastic kick-off event hosted by some of our sponsors. The next day saw the full 1,650 attendees descend on the iconic Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in  San Francisco’s Civic Centre for...

Making World Product Day a Day to Remember

Last month, we celebrated the second annual World Product Day, uniting product people around the world for a day of reflecting on our craft. And while the cakes have been eaten, team activities completed, and gatherings wrapped up, we’re still hearing stories of the great conversations that took place throughout the day. We wanted to share a few of these stories from ProductTank meetups around the world.

Bringing the LatAm Product Community Together

By Mateo Fernandez, ProductTank Montevideo...

Leading Product Teams in Asia by Kenneth Chin

Throughout his long career, Kenneth Chin, now the Chief Product Officer for Seek Asia, has worked with and led product teams around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, and across Asia. In this talk from Mind the Product Singapore he shares some of the cultural differences he’s experienced between East and West and how we can learn from those differences to build better Product teams and careers.

Ken started with a history lesson, laying the core foundations for the cultural difference...

Popular Misconceptions of the Product Craft by Sherif Mansour

In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product Singapore 2019, Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian, shares some common misconceptions about the product management craft, how we need to think differently about those issues, and what we should be doing instead.

1. Product Managers Make all the Decisions

As product managers it is easy to get stuck in making all the decisions. The questions keep coming in and it can feel great to help move your team forward...

It’s World Product Day 2019 – the World’s Largest Product Management Event

Last year we celebrated the first ever World Product Day – a day all about shining a spotlight on our global tribe of product people, connecting local communities with each other, highlighting the craft of product management, and having fun along the way. On May 15, we’re back again, and this year it’s bigger and better than ever.

World Product Day 2018 was a celebration of the first-ever ProductTank meetup which took place on 23 May 2010. That first ProductTank took place in a small bar in L...

Announcing World Product Day 2019 – the World’s Largest Product Management Event

Last year, on 23 May 2018, we celebrated the first ever World Product Day – a day all about shining a spotlight on our global tribe of product people, connecting local communities with each other, highlighting the craft of product management, and having fun along the way. On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 we’re back again, and this year it’s going to be bigger and better than ever.

World Product Day 2018 was a celebration of the first ever ProductTank meetup which took place on 23 May 2010. That firs...

Creative Leadership by John Maeda

Moore’s Law isn’t really a law, but semantics aside it essentially stipulates that computers have been doubling in speed roughly every two years. The compounding effect of this doubling is sometimes difficult to comprehend, but it means that today’s computers are two billion times faster than they were just a few decades ago. And if you extrapolate that compounding effect forward, the numbers get even stranger – by roughly 2040 that computer will be nine quintillion times faster. These number...

Coming Together at #mtpcon Singapore to Hone our Craft

On March 25-26, 2019 we gathered over 400 passionate product people from 26 countries around the world in Singapore for two days of connecting, sharing, and moving our craft forward together. It started with a day of deep-dive workshops followed by an opening party right on Marina Bay, and culminated in the main conference in the iconic Victoria Theatre featuring fascinating keynotes and an insightful panel. Thank you for joining us and making our inaugural Singapore conference such a roaring...

The Outstanding Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. As always the core of the conference is our line-up of brilliant speakers, and the insights and stories they bring to the conference is what starts all those conversations. So I’m thrilled to announce our fir...