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Demystifying Product Strategy by Amy Zima

BY Eira Hayward on January 7, 2021

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Amy Zima, the Principal Product Manager at Spotify, aims to demystify the process involved in creating a strategy, offering a case study and sharing lessons learned. Watch the session in full or read on for the highlights. The word strategy can inspire fear or awe in product managers, says Read more »

The Anatomy of a Pivot by Asha Haji

BY Edward Kendall on January 1, 2021

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Asha Haji, Co-Founder and COO and Founders Academy shares her recent experience of a pivot. She talks about what drives a pivot, how to decide what to pivot to, and how to manage your pivot once it’s started. Watch the video to see the talk in full. Or read on Read more »

Building Products Asynchronously With a Distributed Team by Job van der Voort

BY Jon Horvath on December 28, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Job van der Voort, CEO of Remote and ex VP Product, GitLab, discusses how best to build products asynchronously with a distributed team. Watch the session in full, or read on for the highlights. Culture of the Written Word Job challenged how we can build successful products when working Read more »

The 10 Product Talks You Should Have Watched in 2020

BY Martin Eriksson on December 24, 2020

Whether it’s at one of our conferences or meetups, we host events in over 200 cities around the world and love to invite product people to take the stage, share their insights, and push our craft forward. This year we published 102 videos and you watched a staggering 920 days of video on Mind the Read more »

Minimum viable product manager by Susana Videira Lopes

BY Edward Kendall on December 17, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Director of Product at Onfido Susana Videira Lopes, shares two different product career stories, explaining the which was most effective in serving both the business and the individual. Watch the session in full, or read on for the highlights. The Horizontal Slice Susana begins by giving an example of Read more »

All These Worlds Are Yours by Cennydd Bowles

BY Jon Horvath on December 11, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Cennydd Bowles, Designer and Author of Future Ethics, highlighted how, as an industry, we will not survive the 21st century with the over-quantified methods of the 20th and must prioritise ethical practice as a fundamental part of the product process. Watch the video to see his talk in full. Read more »

Structuring and Scaling Product Teams by Roman Pichler

BY Lisa Radel on December 9, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Roman Pichler, Author of How to Lead in Product Management, discusses important aspects leaders should bear in mind when structuring and growing product teams. Watch the session in full, or read on for the highlights. Empower the Product People Any successful product organisation, Roman explains, needs empowered product people. He argues Read more »

Lessons from a Product Champion by Mary Poppendieck

BY Lisa Radel on December 4, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital keynote, Mary Poppendieck, author of Lean Software Development and three other bestsellers, shares the most important lessons she learned as a Product Champion at 3M in the 80s and 90s. At the time, 3M’s film products were being replaced by digital and, according to Mary, it managed to survive Read more »

Solving Ethical AI Problems, When Algorithms Go Wrong, and the Skills Needs To Work on AI Solutions: Insights From Kriti Sharma

BY Imogen Schels on December 3, 2020

In our final AMA of the year, exclusively for Mind the Product members, Kriti Sharma, VP Product at GfK, shares her AI insights. Watch the session again for real-life examples from Kriti’s awesome back catalogue of AI work and learn about AI trends, tackling ethical AI questions as a product manager, the skills needed to Read more »

Is Inclusive Design Enough? by Julian Thompson

BY Imogen Schels on December 2, 2020

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Julian Thompson the Founder of Rooted by Design, explores a critical question – is inclusive design enough? Julian studied law, focusing on human rights and public policy, before training in design and has spent the last eight-plus years exploring how to put an inclusive design lens over his design Read more »