Product Development Process

As the discipline of product management matures, there is often talk in the product management community about a product manifesto — a set of aspirational principles that guide us. Here is Paul Rehmet’s take on what it should say. Read more »

In this #mtpcon London+EMEA keynote, WhatsApp’s Product Director, Alice Newton Rex, explains the common trends adopted by those who’ve found success making big product bets. Read more »

As product people, expectations management is all around us in our daily job. In this article, Viktor Nagy summarizes a few areas where expectations play a crucial role, and what we can do to manage them well or sometimes turn them into agreements. Read more »

We initially ran this episode back in May, but that was before Frances Haugen came forward as the Facebook whistleblower. Sudhir Venkatesh joined us on the podcast to help understand how product people can do great things without fundamentally breaking the internet. Read more »

So you outsource. If everything is going well and according to the plan and budget, then perfect. But what to do, if not? Read more »

Workflow is a managed flow in which your work goes from its inception all the way to its creation. This may sound easy at face value, but there are many moving parts that come in and out of the workflow process and before the workflow is even devised yet, there are many steps that come Read more »

Why are development teams so hard to work with? You’ve done your part—you have your OKRs, roadmaps, specs and designs in good shape. You’ve made delivery commitments to stakeholders. Now you just need to build those shiny new features. But your software engineers are questioning the business value, being non-committal on timelines, and their deliverables Read more »

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas keynote, Lenny Rachitsky, writer and former Product Lead at Airbnb shares the story of how his team transformed the company’s booking conversion rate from 50-85%, accounting for ‘untold billions of dollars in revenue’, by thinking really big. Watch the talk in full or read on for the overview. Mind the Product members Read more »

In this ProductTank Louisville talk, Becki Hyde, senior product manager and leadership advisor at VMWare Tanzu Labs, explains some of the problems that many teams working in the tech industry face. Read more »

This week we’re rewinding all the way to 2015 and a classic #mtpcon San Francisco keynote from Kathy Sierra — Badass: Making users awesome. Kathy argues that every experience has the potential to be transformative if we just build them the right way and she provides brilliant, at times laugh out loud funny, examples to Read more »