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Product Management

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SUNDAY REWIND: Why mistakes are key for product excellence

SUNDAY REWIND: Why mistakes are key for product excellence

This week’s Sunday Rewind is product leader Francesca Cortesi’s post from 2021 on how important mistakes and failure are for product people and why they are key to success and excellence.

Eira Hayward

Customer feedback is product management

Customer feedback is product management

Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers - products that impact their lives for the better. Ronke Majekodunmi dives in.

Ronke Majekodumni

Principles of rapid innovation

Principles of rapid innovation

Vijay Panwar, a senior software engineer at Panasonic Avionics Corporation, lists actionable strategies to unlock the potential of Agile product management and overcome challenges like backlog management and prioritization.

Vijay Panwar

Rerun: Roadmaps are dead. Long live roadmaps! – Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

Rerun: Roadmaps are dead. Long live roadmaps! – Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad joins us to give advice to anyone ready to break up with their roadmap.

Louron Pratt

How to choose the right product lifecycle

How to choose the right product lifecycle

Andy Hughes, a product and organisational agility consultant, details the different product lifecycles and how to implement the right one.

Andy Hughes

Apple under attack: what should product managers do?

Apple under attack: what should product managers do?

What are the implications for product managers of the various legal challenges to Apple's walled garden approach?

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: OKRs: So simple! So then why isn’t everyone using them?

SUNDAY REWIND: OKRs: So simple! So then why isn’t everyone using them?

In this post from 2020 occupational psychologist Kim Atherton looks at the benefits and pitfalls of using OKRs.

Eira Hayward

Top product management reads in March

Top product management reads in March

From questioning the mantras of product gurus through to finding product/market fit with AI, here’s a look through our top product management reads this month.

Eira Hayward

Managing feature requests: a guide for product managers

Managing feature requests: a guide for product managers

We’ve gathered together some of the best advice around to help you manage expectations and manage your feature requests successfully.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: How do you build a successful product team?

SUNDAY REWIND: How do you build a successful product team?

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a look back to a report from 2021 in which we spoke to a number of seasoned product people for an in-depth look at how to build a successful product team.

Eira Hayward

Case study: Developing Mattr Social, a different kind of dating product

Case study: Developing Mattr Social, a different kind of dating product

We talk to the team at startup Mattr Social about how they've developed the features and algorithms behind the dating app

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: Quick read – How to influence decisions using research

SUNDAY REWIND: Quick read – How to influence decisions using research

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2021 post that looks at a panel discussion in which Cindy Alvarez, then Director of Customer Research at GitHub, author and user research consultant Steve Portigal, and Michelle Lotia, then Head of User Research at Trainline, share their tips on how to influence decisions using research.

Eira Hayward