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How to effectively deal with and leverage ambiguity as product managers

BY Varun Kulkarni on March 14, 2023

Based on his personal experience as a product manager for 6 years and work done at Deloitte Consulting and Cisco Webex, Senior Product Manager Varun Kulkarni explains how to deal with ambiguity as a product manager. Read more »

8 exceptional #mtpcon talks by women in product

BY Louron Pratt on March 8, 2023

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we look at some of the awesome women who have taken to the #mtpcon stage over the past few years. Sadly, we can’t feature them all because, believe me when I say, there are A LOT of awesome women doing amazing things for the community of product management. With Read more »

Motivating product teams during a tough time in tech

BY Christine Itwaru on March 6, 2023

In this column, Pendo and Mind the Product’s very own Christine Itwaru delves into how product teams can motivate themselves during turbulent times for the tech industry. Read more »

The first 90 day plan for new product leaders

BY Shubhansha Agrawal on February 21, 2023

In this guest post, Shubhansha Agrawal, Head of Product at Yelp comprehensively breaks down the first 30/60/90 days of a product leader based on the lessons she has learned in her extensive career.

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The dos and don'ts of mentoring in product

BY Eira Hayward on December 12, 2022

“Mentoring others is one of the main but unfortunately still an underutilised responsibility of a product manager once they reach a certain seniority,” says Floriane Gramlich, Director of Product/CPO for Zalando Payments, the fintech arm of fashion retailer Zalando. Plenty would agree with her, both inside and outside product management. A 2019 survey of 3,000 full-time Read more »

Back to school with Matt Walton

BY Eira Hayward on December 5, 2022

They say the best teachers inspire and show you where to look. It’s this sentiment that led Matt Walton to forge a career as a product leader in edtech, first at digital education platform FutureLearn, and now at a new university in the UK that wants to equip its graduates with the interdisciplinary perspectives and Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: Inspiring teams with product vision

BY Eira Hayward on November 27, 2022

This week’s Sunday Rewind is an inspiring ProductTank San Francisco talk from Keela Robison, then CEO at PM Loop and now VP of Product Management at Google. She talks about what vision is, why it matters and how to find it. Vision comprises your values, purpose and envisioned future, says Keela. Your best employees – Read more »

Master the art of leading through influence by Shyvee Shi

BY Louron Pratt on November 24, 2022

In this #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022 breakout session, Shyvee Shi, Product Manager at Linkedin Learning discussed influencing without authority in product management. Watch this video or read on for key highlights from the talk! Read more »

Product vision and strategy - Marty Cagan on The Product Experience - Part 1 of 2

BY The Product Experience on November 16, 2022

On this week’s podcast episode, we welcomed someone who needs no introduction. Marty Cagan, Founder and Partner of Silicon Valley Product Group , and Author of ”Inspired” and “Empowered” delved into a plethora of topics including strategy, vision, ethics, and ways of working. We struggled to fit so many product insights into one episode, so we decided to split it into two parts! Sit back, grab a drink, and listen to some of the wisest words of wisdom in product. Read more »

How to build a product team from scratch

BY Eira Hayward on November 7, 2022

The great thing about building out a product team from scratch is that you set the tone for how Product functions in a business. However it’s an exercise that comes with lots of big questions you need to answer and more than a few pitfalls, even if you think you’ve thought everything through thoroughly before Read more »