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Video: Evoking real-world experiences with a product MacGuffin

BY Martin Eriksson on January 30, 2013

Hannah Donovan and Matthew Ogle are the product and design powerhouse behind Last.fm and have continued their passion for building music products online with their hit startup This Is My Jam. In their talk at our product management conference Mind the Product 2012 Matt and Hannah argue that MacGuffins can be incredibly useful tools when Read more »

Product Manager Survey Results: Part 3 - US and UK comparison

BY Simon Cast on January 30, 2013

In part 3 of this series analysing the results of our product manager survey, we’ll be looking at the breakdown of responses from people based in the US. (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here.) In the survey 23% of the responses came from the US. Of these responses, 42% came from product Read more »

Product Manager Survey Results: Part 2 - UK Salaries

BY Simon Cast on January 21, 2013

In part 2 of this series analysing the results of our product manager survey, we’ll be looking at the breakdown of responses from people based in the UK. (Part 1 of this series is here. Part 3 of the series is here) Some 53.47% of the responses came from the UK. Of those responses, 48% Read more »

Video: The antithesis of a product process

BY Martin Eriksson on January 16, 2013

Charles Adler is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Kickstarter. He is an entrepreneur with over 14 years experience in interaction design. Formerly director of strategy and senior information architect at Agency.com, his work in user experience, design, and information architecture is driven by a commitment to all things clean and simple. Previously, he cofounded Read more »

What can product managers learn from film directors?

BY David Hawdale on January 14, 2013

One day, a colleague and I were having a conversation over a pint as to whether you could make the film Blade Runner using Agile processes. We concluded that you could not. We thought you’d need something more. A vision. A way of developing that vision, and a way to not lose the vision in Read more »

Video: Is purpose the new pivot?

BY Martin Eriksson on January 7, 2013

Tom Hulme is Design Director at IDEO London, where he uses a human-centred innovation approach to design new businesses, and the founder of Open IDEO, an open innovation platform. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, he has first-hand experience in building successful enterprises and, as a result, he has a thorough understanding of business. Hulme Read more »