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Navigating the peculiarities of the African product management ecosystem - Philips Nwachukwu on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on January 12, 2022

Philips Nwachukwu, Senior Product Manager, joins us on the podcast this week to talk about the unique challenges he sees for Product people working in Africa.   Read more »

Rerun: Making Better Predictions - Margaret Heffernan on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on January 5, 2022

Predicting the future is hard. In this podcast episode, sponsored by Amplitude, we turn to Margaret Heffernan to learn how to do it better. If she can’t help, there’s no hope! Read more »

Quick read: How to influence decisions using research

BY Imogen Schels on December 27, 2021

It’s fair to say that, sometimes, important business decisions are out of our control. In order to exercise more influence, our experts recommend doing research so that you can deliver findings and sway minds in order to make things happen. Read more »

How to lead your product — Part 3: Communication

BY Katie Cladis on December 9, 2021

The final part in Katie Cladis’s ‘How to lead your product’ series, will discuss how to lead in the context of communication. Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: 6 Things a Product Manager Is Not

BY Imogen Schels on October 31, 2021

Very often we talk about what a product manager should do, what they need to learn, and how they fit into their organisation, but we like this 2015 post from Simba Sagwete detailing six key things a product manager should NOT do. From being too technical or too involved in marketing to being a data Read more »

It’s all about the outcome by Georgie Smallwood

BY Eira Hayward on October 25, 2021

In this #mtpcon London+EMEA keynote Georgie Smallwood, CPO at Tier Mobility, explains why an understanding of outcomes and impacts are essential to successful product management. In brief: Outcomes are an important component of a successful business, along with strategy, purpose, and skills. What we want to deliver is impact – if there’s a great roadmap, Read more »

How I got my job in product - Alexandra Craciun

BY Louron Pratt on October 6, 2021

Alexandra Craciun is a senior product manager at the Ministry of Justice (Moj) Digital and Platforms. She was previously at Sainsbury’s as a product manager. Here’s how she got into product. Roles and responsibilities I’m part of a team formed of 4 DevOps Engineers, 2 Python Engineers and a Delivery Manager. My typical day usually Read more »

Simple steps to effective product research - Part 2: Getting it right

BY Eira Hayward on October 5, 2021

In the first of this 2-part series on product research, we look at how to get started with product research and at some golden rules to makes sure it goes well (read Simple steps to effective product research – Part 1: Getting started). I part 2, we look at what commonly goes wrong, how to Read more »

Simple steps to effective product research - Part 1: Getting started

BY Eira Hayward on October 4, 2021

As C Todd Lombardo, VP of Product and Experience at Openly, explained in his Prioritised AMA, Performing Effective User Research, product research done well can help you to avoid making a whole load of bad product decisions. But what are the practical steps you need to take to perform research well? In this 2-part, quick read Read more »

Transition from a Feature Factory to Business Impact team by Sandra Hinz

BY Andres Phillips on October 1, 2021

In this ProductTank Berlin talk, Sandra Hinz and Rainer Collet, co-founders at ValueRebels, provide a framework to help solve some typical challenges in a product organization and avoid wasting months of work. Watch the video to see their talk in full, or read on for an overview of the key points: Typical challenges in a product Read more »