Building Product Teams
Great products come from great product teams. But how do you build a product team that’s set for success? Here you’ll find insights and advice from practicing product people on how to do it right.
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SUNDAY REWIND: How high-performance organisations innovate at scale by Barry O'Reilly
#mtpcon London+EMEA is just 5 days away! This gives us the perfect opportunity to look back to this engaging talk by Barry O’Reilly at #mtpcon London 2017. Read more »
Outcome-driven product teams - Becky Flint on The Product Experience
We talked with Becky Flint, CEO at Dragonboat to discuss how you can take the next step into becoming an outcome-driven product organisation. Read more »
Org charts eat culture for breakfast: Why an agile mindset alone won’t help you by Björn Waide
In this MTP Engage Hamburg talk, Björn Waide, Managing Director at Haufe-Lexware shares his experiences on building a free-thinking innovative culture. Read more »
Product operations – an approach to scaling and improving product teams
This article explores the concepts of mapping, maturing, and automating business processes in the incredibly exciting world of product. Read more »
Internal facing products don’t have to be bad by João Craveiro
In this ProductTank London talk, João Craveiro, Lead Product Manager at Farfetch, provides some tips on how product managers can turn internal-facing products into products that are just as well-loved as the crown-jewel customer-facing products. Read more »
Who does what? Organising your product teams - Mike Hudack on The Product Experience
We always encourage people to experiment with their product development techniques — but experimenting with your team can be a step too far. To get some expert advice, we talked with Monzo Chief Product Officer, Mike Hudack (ex-Facebook, Deliveroo) about how he approaches this, what’s worked and what hasn’t, how to avoid cross-team dependencies, the key to effective communication and collaboration, and much more.
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Scaling product and design teams is not just about hiring
When working in early growth stage companies, being able to scale your teams quickly enough is a key element in keeping the human workforce aligned with advancement levers. Hiring might be the first thing to come to mind, right? But hiring is only part of the solution. Read more »
A case study: Cultivating collaboration across large product organisations
I recently was asked to share some thoughts on how you can cultivate a culture of collaboration across a product organisation where multiple teams are all working on their own products and risk becoming siloed. Whilst teams being independent and able to move fast is a good thing, this can result in different parts of Read more »
How I got my job in product: Ben Foster, chief product officer at WHOOP
Ben Foster has more than 20 years of product management experience. He was formerly a senior product manager at eBay, vice president of product at Opower, and chief product officer at GoCanvas. Here’s how he got his most recent job in product as a CPO at WHOOP Read more »
How to make remote collaboration work by Ingrid Odegaard
In this ProductTank London talk Ingrid Odegaard, Co-founder and CPTO at Whereby, shares some tips for making remote collaboration work on a day-to-day basis based on learnings from her own team and their customers. Read more »