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Navigating different org sizes as a product leader

BY Liz Clow on June 20, 2023

Product leader Liz Clow introduces an holistic approach to product leadership, covering strategy, customer centricity, agility, leadership, and execution Read more »

Innovating in leadership with Janice Fraser

BY Louron Pratt on June 1, 2023

Janice Fraser is an Author, speaker and innovation leader who has been in the digital landscape for over two decades. We caught up with her this week to talk about her journey into leadership and what she’ll be speaking about at #mtpcon San Francisco 2023 on June 14. Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: The PMwheel – a compass for the product manager development journey

BY Eira Hayward on May 21, 2023

This week’s Sunday Rewind goes back to a 2020 post from product coach Petra Wille that explains her framework “The PMwheel”, and how to use it to understand a product manager’s responsibilities. Read more »

Leadership meetup: Leading product teams in times of change

BY Alivia Kasumov on May 5, 2023

This month’s Mind the Product leadership meetup in San Francisco brought together attendees across the Bay Area, from companies big and small. Three speakers joined us to discuss all things leadership during difficult times. Here’s what we learned. Read more »

Deep dive: Why is outcome-led so tricky? by Dave Martin

BY Dave Martin on April 17, 2023

Why is it so difficult for organisations to become outcome led and what is the role of product leaders in making an outcome-led approach work? Read more »

How to effectively deal with and leverage ambiguity as product managers

BY Varun Kulkarni on March 14, 2023

Based on his personal experience as a product manager for 6 years and work done at Deloitte Consulting and Cisco Webex, Senior Product Manager Varun Kulkarni explains how to deal with ambiguity as a product manager. Read more »

8 exceptional #mtpcon talks by women in product

BY Louron Pratt on March 8, 2023

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we look at some of the awesome women who have taken to the #mtpcon stage over the past few years. Sadly, we can’t feature them all because, believe me when I say, there are A LOT of awesome women doing amazing things for the community of product management. With Read more »

Motivating product teams during a tough time in tech

BY Christine Itwaru on March 6, 2023

In this column, Pendo and Mind the Product’s very own Christine Itwaru delves into how product teams can motivate themselves during turbulent times for the tech industry. Read more »

The first 90 day plan for new product leaders

BY Shubhansha Agrawal on February 21, 2023

In this guest post, Shubhansha Agrawal, Head of Product at Yelp comprehensively breaks down the first 30/60/90 days of a product leader based on the lessons she has learned in her extensive career.

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The dos and don'ts of mentoring in product

BY Eira Hayward on December 12, 2022

“Mentoring others is one of the main but unfortunately still an underutilised responsibility of a product manager once they reach a certain seniority,” says Floriane Gramlich, Director of Product/CPO for Zalando Payments, the fintech arm of fashion retailer Zalando. Plenty would agree with her, both inside and outside product management. A 2019 survey of 3,000 full-time Read more »