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Learnings from #mtpcon: Donna Lichaw on crafting products that engage

BY Eira Hayward on September 9, 2022

This look at what we’ve learned from years past at #mtpcon London takes us back to 2016 and a talk from Donna Lichaw on the importance of storytelling in product management: Crafting products that engage. Donna is a film-school graduate turned product specialist, and she uses her experience in film to develop and advocate a Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: Stop thinking about the user interface

BY Eira Hayward on August 28, 2022

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back a few years to an article from Juan Jose Ramirez that unpicks our approach to product design and suggests a design methodology that product managers may find useful to add to their workflow. The author says that most product professionals start with a high-end design for their product Read more »

Learnings from London: Dave Wascha - Inside the mind of a product manager

BY Eira Hayward on August 26, 2022

In this week’s Learnings from London, we look back at the high spots from #mtpcon London in years past we bring you Dave Wascha’s talk from 2014, Inside the mind of a product manager. Read more »

Why should product managers understand Microservices?

BY Shiva Hullinakatte on August 23, 2022

This article discusses why product managers should understand Microservices, and how to make a transition to Microservices to achieve its intended benefits. Read more »

The art of product management with Ken Norton

BY Louron Pratt on August 22, 2022

In this Ask me Anything (AMA) for prioritised members, Managing Director, Emily Tate, was joined by Ken Norton, Executive Product Coach, to discuss the art of product management. Watch the video in full or read on for the key points discussed. Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: 5 essential elements of perfect product messaging

BY Eira Hayward on August 21, 2022

This week’s Sunday Rewind takes us back a few years to a post from Elisabeth Cullivan Thomas that examines how to get a product’s marketing messages right. Elisabeth says: “One of the first things that I think about when launching a new product or service is how do we get people to notice? How do Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: Escaping the build trap by Melissa Perri

BY Eira Hayward on August 14, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind we look back at Melissa Perri’s insightful talk, Escaping the build trap, from our 2017 San Francisco conference. A lot of teams are stuck in ‘the build trap’ she says. They’re busy defining and shipping software with no measures of success, managing the backlog, and focusing on getting features out the Read more »

Data management: store and share

BY Eira Hayward on August 8, 2022

In the second of this two-part series on data management we look at how the data you collect should be presented and shared with stakeholders and why getting this right is important. We also look at how you can use data to make better roadmap decisions and how data can help with stakeholder management. The Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: Behind every great product by Marty Cagan

BY Eira Hayward on August 7, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind we look back at Marty Cagan’s opening keynote from mtpcon London 2016, where he shares his thoughts on what makes a great product manager by looking at the people behind some great products. Behind every great product there is always someone who works hard to solve incredibly difficult problems. In this Read more »

Data management: collect and organise

BY Eira Hayward on August 1, 2022

Whether you’re a data product manager or a product manager, data will be at the heart of everything you do. In this two-part series we’ll look at the importance of data and how data can help you to do a better job as a product manager. TL;DR Data is both quantitative and qualitative: don’t just Read more »