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February 2, 2018
Your Team is Smarter Than You Are: Why Autonomous Product Teams Work Better
I’ve always argued that product management is a team sport. But as soon as you have more than one team in an organisation and you need them to interact with each other, you introduce friction. This friction between teams is why we have libraries full of project management books and methodologies, inboxes and outboxes, dependency management, and so much more. All friction. And friction kills momentum. Friction kills speed.
If you instead remove dependencies between teams and introduce autonom...
December 27, 2017
Key Product Dates for Your Diary in 2018
In a recent blog post Mind the Product’s director of training, Rosemary King, said that getting an edge as a product manager means “collecting as many valuable experiences as you can from as many places as possible,” and we’ve got plenty in the pipeline next year to help you do just that.
Our 2018 is shaping up to be a busy year with product conferences, local peer-to-peer meetups, training workshops and much more. So, add these dates to your plans (and budgets!) for 2018 to get that edge and...
December 23, 2017
Top 10 Product Insights You Should Have Read in 2017
Every week I curate the best product and design content from across the internet into our weekly product management newsletter Prioritised. Here are the top 10 most clicked articles from the 408 links featured in this year’s 51 newsletters – 10 articles your peers digged so much you should definitely check them out as well.
There is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. Rik Higham argues that we should ditch MVPs and f...
December 21, 2017
Top 10 Product Guest Posts of 2017
Mind the Product is above all a community of product managers who strive to push our craft of product management forward by sharing our insights, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid. We’ve already highlighted the Top 10 Product Talks from across our conferences and meetups, but not everyone wants to get up on stage to share, so now it’s time to look at the top 10 guest posts here on mindtheproduct.com.
1. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup
The inimitable Nate Walkingshaw argues...
December 18, 2017
What we Learned About Product Management in 2017
As another year draws to a close, it seems appropriate to look back at some of the highlights of 2017, assess the progress we’ve made as a community, and examine how we’ve pushed the craft of product management forward.
We’ve certainly made great progress here at Mind the Product: our audience has grown with 50% growth in traffic, 45% growth in newsletter subscribers, and 38% growth in the number of ProductTanks around the world (we’re now in 138 cities!). We launched corporate product manage...
December 15, 2017
Top 10 Product Talks of 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. This year our speakers have shared a plethora of amazing product talks and those videos have had 100,000s of plays, so I decided to look at which videos our audience engaged with the most and whi...
December 5, 2017
6 Years of Amazing Product Talks
For the past 6 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. We invite some of the top product thinkers and practitioners from all over the world to share their experiences, insights, and lessons, and now we invite you to watch the entire library of talks!
2017The talks were the best talks I’ve heard in a very long time.
Marty Cagan
20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha
Building Pr...
December 1, 2017
10 Ways to Celebrate Your Product Manager this Holiday Season
Even though we can’t do it all ourselves, product managers are often the unsung heroes in the tech world. Here are 10 great ways to recognise the product managers in your team and show them some love this holiday season.
It’ll be hard to choose between the second edition of Marty Cagan’s seminal Inspired, Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw’s Product Leadership, and C Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connor...
November 9, 2017
Product Portfolio Management: Success at Scale
Product management can be hard enough, but when you scale beyond more than one product, product portfolio management is a critical tool to prioritise between multiple products, ensure resources are assigned to the right products, and that you have a pipeline of new product ideas ready to grow.
Success is a Terrible TeacherWhether you’re in a small but growing company or a large established enterprise, you will tend towards the status quo. It’s way too easy to get stuck following the same pat...
September 22, 2017
Sense & Respond: The Farm Awakens by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
In this closing keynote from Mind the Product San Francisco, Josh Seiden and Jeff Gothelf, the authors of Sense & Respond and Lean UX, shared a story about wheat farming as a parable for understanding our customers and how to respond to our their needs and technological change.
The story starts with a hypothesis statement. A simple way we can frame what we do to set our businesses up for success:
We believe that meeting this user need with these features will create this business outcome. We’...
