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Where Does Product Fit? What's Being a CPO Really Like? Dave Wascha Tells All

BY Imogen Schels on November 4, 2020

In this video, Zoopla’s CPTO Dave Wascha shares his take on the reality of the CPO role, where Product fits within the organisation, what skills product managers need to be successful, and more. Watch the session in full or read on for the top 5 highlights. About Dave Wascha Dave Wascha started as a product Read more »

The challenge of leadership: asking for help

BY Christian Miccio on November 2, 2020

Asking for help is hard for leaders. Sometimes a product team really needs support – navigating that process requires skill, tact, and willingness to ask. Read more »

The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey

BY Petra Wille on October 23, 2020

Back in 2016, I was working with the product organization of a larger tech company. They asked me to help every product manager on the team “understand the role of the product manager better,” and to help the product managers understand what “better” would actually look like. This was not an easy challenge and, although Read more »

Building And Scaling Empowered Teams: AMA With Nate Walkingshaw

BY Imogen Schels on October 22, 2020

In this AMA session, exclusively for MTP Leaders, Nate Walkingshaw reveals some of the tough leadership lessons he learned early on in his career, how to build and scale a culture of trust, and why he wishes we’d all stop using the word ‘failing’. If you missed it, you can watch the whole session again, Read more »

Predictive tech and data ethics: Part 1 - the pros and cons

BY Eira Hayward on October 9, 2020

This article is part of our AI Knowledge Hub, created with Pendo. For similar articles and even more free AI resources, visit the AI Knowledge Hub now. As someone once said, technology companies are quick to focus on what they can do, but not so quick to examine “the how they do it”. Predictive technology may Read more »

Building health-tech products when the rules are still being written, by Joe Rinaldi Johnson

BY Lisa Radel on October 5, 2020

In this ProductTank London talk, Joe Rinaldi Johnson shares what he’s learned in 10 years of navigating the challenging and highly regulated field of healthcare. He is the Chief Product Officer at Zava, a digital healthcare company offering remote diagnosis and prescriptions. If you, like Joe, feel there is a lack of resources about product management in Read more »

Transforming Toxic Teams

BY Eira Hayward on September 25, 2020

At some point in our careers, we’ve likely all experienced a toxic team or two. You know the team we mean, the one where everything is a battle, conversations are tense and people are constantly frustrated and anxious. These issues that arise can be a result of the behaviour of the whole team, a few Read more »

Lucia Adams on Burnout: the Signs, Symptoms, and Strategies

BY Eira Hayward on September 18, 2020

Lucia Adams knows a lot about burnout: she’s not afraid to admit that she once fell victim to it. A past ProductTank speaker, Lucia is a consultant and executive coach who specialises in helping organisations take a human-centred approach to evolve their ways of working. Her experience of burnout has been a steep learning curve Read more »

Leadership Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: Advice From Tanya Cordrey

BY Imogen Schels on September 2, 2020

In the first of our membership AMAs, exclusively for MTP Leaders, we were joined by Tanya Cordrey, the former Chief Digital Officer at Guardian News and Media. Drawing on her experience, Tanya revealed her seven biggest leadership mistakes, then took questions from the group. Watch the whole, interactive session again, or read on for a Read more »

A product manager's approach to growing teams

BY Sharon Kean on August 28, 2020

Transferwise takes a data-driven, tactical approach to growing its product teams. Read about what they’ve learned, and why diversity is so important. Read more »