Product Management Skills
Martin Eriksson defines product management as the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. He believes that a good product manager must be experienced in at least one of these areas and passionate about all of them. But what exact skills does a product manager need? From communication and strategic thinking to prioritisation and analytical skills, the list is long. This content looks at product management skills in different ways.
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SUNDAY REWIND: The biggest challenge for product managers?
What is your biggest challenge as a product manager? The million-dollar question had Christian Bonilla thinking. He, therefore, decided to publish his key findings and his thoughts on this matter, which is what we’ll be delving into for this Sunday Rewind episode. Read more »
Finding your way in product management without a technical background
Breaking into a product management career when you do not have a technical background can seem intimidating if not impossible. In this article, Ambre Josse dives into what is really behind the best way to embrace a product career if you do not have a technical background. Read more »
What does it mean to be a global product manager?
In celebration of World Product Day tomorrow we thought we should look at what it means to be a global product manager. To get some answers, we speak to product managers grappling with these problems in different parts of the world. Read more »
June's top product management content
Hard on the heels of mtpcon Digital Americas in May, our mtpEngage conference in Hamburg returned in June after a two-year absence. This month we also aired podcasts with California’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer Rick Klau and Mark Tsirekas, VP of Product at nutritional science startup Zoe. Here’s a recap of our top posts this Read more »
Easy ways to avoid the product graveyard
We all know most products fail, (as many as 90% of them, according to some reports) so let’s take a look at some of the most common reasons for this to happen. Here’s a list of key questions to ask yourself so that – hopefully – your product doesn’t have to fall into the same Read more »
May's top product management content
This month on the Mind the Product blog, we saw engaging sessions led by Marty Cagan and Nacho Bassino, as well as gaining insights into an awareness piece about mental health in the product community. Here’s a recap of our top posts from the past month. Read more »
Train your product team's brain to embrace optimism and pessimism
High performing teams acknowledge the role of both optimism and pessimism and create systems of work that exploit their benefits equally. Let’s unpack optimism and pessimism, and look at ways to make the most of both in your team. Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: Your team is smarter than you are: why autonomous product teams work better
Today’s Sunday Rewind takes us back a few years to a post written by MTP Co-founder Martin Eriksson that delves into the causes of friction between teams in a business. Friction between teams kills momentum and speed. It’s bad for business and is the reason why we have libraries full of project management books and Read more »
Experimentation for product teams: Part 2
Experiments are a quick and inexpensive way for product managers to validate and prioritise their ideas. In Experimentation for product teams: Part 1 we explore the types of experimentation product managers can use and at some of the pitfalls and challenges. But, to really understand experimentation, we want war stories! So, in this second part, we take Read more »
Don’t convince. Inspire! - Lessons on storytelling by Petra Wille
In this #mtpcon London+EMEA session, Petra Wille, Product Leadership Coach and author of STRONG product people, provides some tips and frameworks for product managers to improve their storytelling capabilities and silence their inner critics. Read more »