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The 10 things I have learnt about Agile Product Delivery

BY Brijesh Malkan on March 12, 2014

I have a confession. I share it in the belief I am in the company of my brethren; I am an accidental product manager. Two years ago, I did not know a user story from a bedtime one. A notification from an alert. And a gherkin was still just a tasty pickle. But 24 months Read more »

Why Pitching Won't Deliver Great Products

BY Paul Jackson on March 5, 2014

As digital transformation continues to disrupt most industries and organisations, it is depressing to see the extension of the ‘pitch’ process to the selection of agencies and suppliers for product development. Depressing, because the process inevitably rewards those least likely to ever develop something of any value. Anyone familiar with Mad Men knows that advertising Read more »

Sprint Zero - On Designing the Right Thing

BY Harry Max on March 3, 2014

Developing great products is hard. The most conservative estimates place new product failure rates at 50% or more.  Many of us can relate to working on an exhilarating project with talented colleagues, where the solution was architected brilliantly and even delivered on-time, only to see the product fall short of expectations in the marketplace. Mark Read more »

Product Management in Commerce: Online, Offline and Mobile

BY Jock Busuttil on February 28, 2014

As the UK shops itself out of recession, it was more than fitting that February’s ProductTank London was all about product management in commerce: online, offline and mobile.  This month we had three eye-opening talks: CEO at Depop Runar Reistrup (@runarreistrup) talking about mobile design for the real world; “the Malcolm Tucker of testing” Craig Read more »

Be user centered, not user led

BY Martin Eriksson on February 5, 2014

There’s a common misconception out there that user centered design means being led by the user. The clearest example is the oft-repeated fallacy that Apple isn’t a user centered organization because they never ask users what they want. In some instances, being user centered means ignoring or even going against explicit user wishes in order Read more »

Video: Lean Product Development

BY Martin Eriksson on January 14, 2014

Is your product disruptive or sustaining? There’s nothing wrong with being sustaining by the way – a disruptive company that is successful quickly becomes a sustaining company. The important thing is to understand where on this spectrum you lie because both need to think differently when it comes to everything from marketing to how to Read more »

Video: How to love A/B and Multivariate Testing

BY Janna Bastow on December 26, 2013

Running a multivariate test or even a simple AB test can be daunting. With each variation, there are additional tests to be run and measured, and it can all get overwhelming very quickly.  At ProductTank October, Alex Smith, the Site Development Manager at Charles Tyrwhitt, showed us what he measured and why, and talked about Read more »

The World is a Product

BY Michael Butlitsky on December 9, 2013

People think about what they do and the world around them being as about a process or a project. Both in everyday life and in business. And this is a problem that to my great surprise few people are talking about or trying to solve. I’ll try to convince you why product thinking is usually Read more »

Video: The next product canvas

BY Martin Eriksson on November 22, 2013

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he pitched it as a broadcast device – that it was for putting on a stage in front of a musician or sermon in order to broadcast it to the world. He had no idea he’d invented a two-way communication device and revolutionized how we could communicate with Read more »

Video: Doing it properly, at scale

BY Martin Eriksson on October 24, 2013

Tom Loosemore, Deputy Director at the UK’s Government Digital Service, spoke at ProductTank recently about how to do product development properly, at scale, in government. It’s an eye-opening case study of how even the most entrenched and sluggish organisations can revitalise their digital presence with the thoughtful application of simple principles of user-centered design and Read more »