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Eira Hayward
Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.
Articles by Eira
Sunday Rewind: The good, bad, and ugly of OKRs by Jenny Herald
In this Sunday Rewind, OKR evangelist Jenny Herald offers lots of advice on how to craft OKRs and make them work for your organisation
Top product management reads in August
International strategy with a 360 view by Chris Butler
In this ProductTank SF talk, Github’s Chris Butler shares his experimental framework for building a resilient strategy
Sunday Rewind: Org charts eat culture for breakfast: Why an agile mindset alone won’t help you by Björn Waide
In this week's Sunday Rewind from 2021 Björn Waide shares his experiences of building a free-thinking innovative business culture.
Sunday Rewind: AARRR vs RARRA: Pirate metrics explained
In this week's Sunday Rewind, Ben Crouch explains what pirate metrics are with examples to show whether they lead to buried treasure
Networking in product management: Lessons from product experts
Sunday Rewind: Why data science and UX research teams are better together
This week's Sunday Rewind is a 2018 ProductTank talk from Chris Abad on the benefits of combining data science and user research teams
Top product management reads in July
In case you missed them, here's a round-up of the most-read articles on Mind the Product this month
What to do when it's time to pivot in product: Lessons from Bumble
Pivots, those shifts in direction in pursuit of a vision, are part of life for any business. We look at why businesses pivot and talk to the team at women-first dating app Bumble about their recent work to evolve the app's user experience
Transformed: Moving to the product model by Marty Cagan
In this ProductTank Brisbane talk, Marty Cagan explains how his book Transformed tries to help you understand how to change your organisation and move to the product model,
Sunday Rewind: Key experience indicators for product managers by Tomer Sharon
What are key experience indicators and how and when do you use them? This week’s Sunday Rewind gives you the lowdown
Sunday Rewind: 7 habits of highly effective product operations
This 2022 post from Dragonboat CEO Becky Flint runs through the essential characteristics that a product ops manager needs for success.