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The Black Mirror Test - Roisi Proven on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]

BY The Product Experience on March 25, 2020

A couple of things we’re hearing people talk about a lot this week are how they’re adjusting to working in a different way, and how they are adjusting their strategies to deal with the current situation. These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her Read more »

Carbon Neutral Roadmaps - Chris Adams on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on January 22, 2020

For the 50th episode of The Product Experience, we’re proud to have Chris Adams join us to talk about making your products more sustainable. One of the rare people who’s seen our world from all sides – Chris has been a developer, designer, researcher and product manager – he came on the show to share Read more »

What's the Worst That Could Happen? By Roisi Proven

BY Andres Phillips on January 6, 2020

In this ProductTank London talk, Roisi Proven, Product Manager at Gower Street Analytics, considers the worst that could happen to digital products if we only ever think about the good and never the bad. She answers the question: ‘What’s the worst that could happen to digital products today?’ by suggesting: Imagine the worst Running a Black Read more »

Sleeping Giants - Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on September 25, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, learn how to apply this ethos to your products, where Read more »

Product, Society, and Ethics by Kathy Pham

BY Valerie Gee on September 20, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon San Francisco, Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations and asks how teams and companies can be more accountable in the future. Kathy, who is a Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT with over 15 years’ tech experience in product, engineering, data and leadership, asserts Read more »

The Next Era of Technology by Marie Louise Gørvild

BY Arne Kittler on August 30, 2019

Every year, for MTP Engage Hamburg, we invite speakers from outside the mainstream product scene and ask them to contribute an additional perspective to stimulate discussion among our audience. This year we were very pleased to welcome Marie Louise Gørvild, Director of Techfestival Copenhagen, to present her view on the profound influence of product managers Read more »

The Black Mirror Test - Roisi Proven on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on July 31, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test.  That’s useful – but she’s also found a way for you to engage your team in a creative way, using the model Read more »

How our Success is Killing us by Matt Stratford

BY Annie Witcombe on February 18, 2019

In this ProductTank London talk, Matt Stratford, Senior Product Manager at Elsevier, shares a reminder that the Earth cannot sustain the level of consumption our modern society has built. For the sake of the planet, Matt suggests “product management for good”. Product managers are among the most entrepreneurial people in the world and embody the Read more »

We Can't Trust Technology Providers - Is It Time for a Code of Ethics?

BY Andrea Saez on February 11, 2019

In the day and age where data is king, users have now essentially become the product. Questionable actions by leading tech giants hit the news every other day – from Facebook spying on its users and selling data, to Apple admitting it degrades batteries on purpose to force upgrades – it seems users just cannot trust the Read more »

Let’s Resolve to Create Humane Products in 2019

BY Scott Colfer on January 2, 2019

Fellow product managers and product leaders: have you ever had a moment when you’ve asked yourself, “am I really doing good with my product?” I really enjoyed Kim Goodwin’s talk at Mind the Product London 2018 and it made me think. Why don’t we ask ourselves a simple question when we create our products and Read more »