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September 15, 2017
The Craft of Prototyping by Caitlin Kalinowski
Prototyping helps you to focus your energy on the right thing at the right time in product development – and therein lies one of the secrets to building great products. Whether you’re building hardware or software, knowing how to leverage the art of prototyping from the first iteration to the last is critical to success.
When Caitlin Kalinowski joined Oculus as Head of Product Design Engineering, her team was sweating a challenge – designing the controller that would ship with the Oculus Rift...
Thank You for Another Awesome #mtpcon London
On Friday, September 8, we gathered nearly 1,600 passionate product people from 52 countries around the world to the iconic Barbican Hall for another dazzling #mtpcon. A day full of incredible talks, amazing conversations, an epic afterparty, and more pre-events than ever before!
A huge cyan blue thank you to our magnificent speakers, crew, volunteers, and most of all our fantastic audience for coming together as a tribe, geeking out on all things product, and making it an awesome conference!...
September 10, 2017
What we Learned at Mind the Product London 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. Great products come from great people, and great people come from working together – which is why everyone was there at the conference after all – meeting the people that mind the product.
September 8, 2017
Mind the Product Conferences 2018
Thanks for another amazing year – we’re thrilled to announce our 2018 dates for the Mind the Product conferences – and in plenty of time for you to add them to your plans (and budgets!) for next year:
Our regional mini-conference returns to Hamburg in April – come check out our 4 keynotes and 12 sessions with 300 peers at MTP Engage Hamburg!
Ticket Price On Sale Early Bird €299 Wednesday, October 4 General Release €399 Friday, November 3 Workshops €299-€3...September 1, 2017
How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow
There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. People are unpredictable, they have strong opinions and unconscious biases. Many people in your organisation have more power than you, yet they are wrong just as often. In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest pa...
August 25, 2017
Innovation is Broken by Janice Fraser
What is the point of innovation? Why do we focus so much time and effort on digital transformation, agile transformation, and innovation? Simply put it’s because large organisations need to grow – and can’t. All of their current management practices optimise against anything new ever being successful. In the course of a storied career that started at Netscape, and includes co-founding Adaptive Path and Luxr, consulting for Fortune 500 companies as well as the White House, Janice Fraser has fo...
August 18, 2017
The Only Product Metric that Matters by Josh Elman
As product managers we spend a lot of our time thinking about product metrics, and all companies, from startups to corporates, spend a lot of time figuring out whether their metrics are good enough. Are the metrics good enough to raise money, or good enough to keep working on a feature or product, or good enough to believe the product will grow into something much bigger someday?
In this compelling talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Josh Elman helps to break through the data noise to d...
August 11, 2017
20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha
Dave Wascha started as a product manager 20 years ago working on Internet Explorer 4.0. Since then he’s had his share of successes and failures in a storied career spanning the US and Europe, and in this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product San Francisco he distills those 20 years into twelve key lessons.
Listen to Customers… This sounds obvious but it’s surprising how little we actually do listen to our customers. Our job as product managers is to maniacally understand your...
July 28, 2017
Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri
Like most of us, when Melissa Perri started as a product manager she started with giant requirements documents, dutifully recording every little detail from stakeholders and turning them into shiny docs for the developers. Then she discovered Agile and churned out features even faster. But eventually she realised that she had been building features for years and never been quite sure whether users actually liked them or used them.
Melissa calls this the Build Trap, and a lot of product teams...
July 21, 2017
The Heartbeat of Product by Nate Walkingshaw
Nate Walkingshaw is the Chief Experience Officer for Pluralsight, where he is responsible for Product, User Experience, Engineering, and Content, and the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams. But he started his career as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) at $7.14 an hour, and in this heartfelt talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 he shares how his emergency medical experience and training set him up for succe...
