Janna Bastow is one of the co-founders of Mind the Product, and kicked off her first event for product people with ProductCamp London in 2010, in an effort to meet and learn from other product managers. 

As a product manager always looking for better tools, Janna also co-founded <a href="https://www.prodpad.com/" title="product management and roadmapping software">ProdPad</a>, product management and roadmapping software for product people. 

She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”

Janna Bastow

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Product Roadmap

Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline

Andres is a freelance writer and digital marketer with a background in engineering and a keen interest in the latest technology advancements. He currently helps tech companies and startups tell their stories by turning their complex ideas into easy to understand material. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn

Andres Phillips

Product Leadership

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The Product Manager's Identity Crisis by Mitchell Gillespie

Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

Emily Tate

Product Research

Using Research in Material Design by Elizabeth Churchill

Startup Product Management

Scaling Matters by Beata Kovacs

Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

The Product Experience

Business Strategy

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Product Management

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User Experience (UX)

Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience

Beks has over 2 decades experience working in Product Management, the last 14 years spent leading global product and design teams. Working at a wide variety of industries, product types; B2C, B2B, and B2B2C. Various domains;  financial services, payments, retail banking, SaaS, personal media and TV and most recently in Climate Tech. Beks is the founder of the Female Product Lead a community focused on empowering the female product leaders of today and tomorrow and is also a community leader at Product Mind community - the worlds only community supporting the mental health and wellbeing of product professionals globally.

Beks Yelland

Product Management Career

Product Management Skills

Making the Transition Between Corporate and Startup

Shashank Ganesh is a content specialist at Hansel.io. He has over three years of experience in content marketing. Prior to Hansel, he oversaw content strategy at HealthifyMe, India's largest digital health/wellness app. He also led Marketing and Content at Ekya Schools, one of Bangalore's leading chain of progressive K-12 institutions. Today, Shashank vests his interest in behavioral psychology, piqued by why products work the way they do and users behave the way they do.

Shashank Ganesh

Product Psychology

Priming and the Science behind Onboarding

Valerie enjoys working as a Brand Marketing Operations Manager at Google. Prior she held various lead marketing, and consulting roles focused on women in action sports. Additionally, she held positions as a Marketing Project Manager at MiresBall brand design agency, and in Product Marketing at Spy Optic Eyewear. Valerie has a BA in Communications, Advertising emphasis, Marketing minor from San Diego State University, and is PMP certified. She is a volunteer at Mind the Product, City Surf Project in San Francisco, and sits on the board for Women’s Skateboarding Alliance.

Valerie Gee

San Francisco

Product, Society, and Ethics by Kathy Pham

Liam helps to build digital products and product teams as a freelance product manager. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Liam Smith

Product Management Community

What is Product Management?

How do you become a product manager?

Product-Led Growth – Ashley Smith on The Product Experience

Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491982276" rel="nofollow">Product Management in Practice</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492033510/" rel="nofollow">Agile for Everybody</a>. Helping product teams communicate and collaborate better. Partner at Sudden Compass. Past: Songza, Google, Bitly, Pitchfork.

Matt LeMay

Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management

Tanya Koshy is Vice President of Product at UserTesting, a human insights platform. She also has worked in product management roles at Facebook, Google, and Groupon.

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