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Product Management

This category focuses on general product management practices to enhance your skills in your career. Additionally, you can explore our most popular posts for each month.

Common misconceptions about product management

Common misconceptions about product management

What do product managers do really well, and what do other people think they do? We asked around and here's what you told us.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: Humility and personal resilience in product

SUNDAY REWIND: Humility and personal resilience in product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a look back to two talks from our 2022 Hamburg conference, MTP Engage, in which product leaders share two different perspectives on the mental qualities you need as a product manager.

Eira Hayward

Let's hear it for the women working in product

Let's hear it for the women working in product

In celebration of International Women’s Day we’ve rounded up some recent seminal #mtpcon talks given by a few of the many outstanding women working in product management.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product

SUNDAY REWIND: A guide on breaking into product

Tom Dyson’s post from 2021 looks at some of the actions you can take to land a first job in product management.

Eira Hayward

From engineering to product: Felix Watson Jr, Lead Product Manager at Google

From engineering to product: Felix Watson Jr, Lead Product Manager at Google

We speak to Felix Watson Jr. Lead Product Manager at Google. In our conversation we discuss Felix's experiences in transitioning from engineering to product, and converse on the state of diversity in product management.

Louron Pratt

February's top product management reads

February's top product management reads

From an in-depth look into the multitude of different ways to teach yourself about product management to tips on how to overcome job fatigue and handle office politics, here’s a look through the most popular content among the MTP community in February.

Eira Hayward

Laid off? The realities of finding your next product management job

Laid off? The realities of finding your next product management job

The job market for product people is tough at the moment - the story goes that more people are looking and fewer tech companies are hiring. We speak to some job hunters and recruiters to find out what it’s really like.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: Five psychological principles of persuasive product design by Nathalie Nahai

SUNDAY REWIND: Five psychological principles of persuasive product design by Nathalie Nahai

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a #mtpcon 2015 talk on the psychological principles of persuasive product design, from psychologist Nathalie Nahai.

Eira Hayward

Building diverse products: A conversation with Annie Jean-Baptiste, product leader at Google

Building diverse products: A conversation with Annie Jean-Baptiste, product leader at Google

Annie Jean-Baptiste is Head of Product Inclusion at Google, working at the large tech company for over a decade. We caught up with her to find out about her experiences of leading products at Google, and her views on how people can inspire diversity in their workplaces.

Louron Pratt

SUNDAY REWIND: Creativity by Scott Berkun

SUNDAY REWIND: Creativity by Scott Berkun

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2017 #mtpcon talk from author and UX leader Scott Berkun on creativity.

Eira Hayward

Navigating the cybersecurity realm: Unveiling the crucial role of product managers

Navigating the cybersecurity realm: Unveiling the crucial role of product managers

In the first of a three-part series, Jinali Goradia, product manager at Visa, looks at how cybersecurity product management is different, its challenges and the skills needed to succeed.

Jinali Goradia

Product managers, stop being jaded

Product managers, stop being jaded

In this article, Ipsita Basu, a product leader at Bill, gives actionable tips to overcome job fatigue as a product manager and handling accountability and office politics.

Ipsita Basu