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Product managers — you are not the CEO of anything

BY Martin Eriksson on March 15, 2017

Martin Eriksson argues that unless you’re the founder and the product manager at the same time, you are not the CEO of anything. Read more »

Learning in Product - Ellen Chisa (ProductTank NYC)

BY Tremis Skeete on March 9, 2017

Ellen Chisa has an educational background in engineering and is currently working on her MBA at Harvard Business School. She has worked for companies like Microsoft and Kickstarter, and is currently the VP of Product at Lola. They connect travelers to travel agents for hotels, restaurants, and any other travelling needs. In her ProductTank NYC Read more »

Product Management is Culture Management

BY Evgeny Lazarenko on March 7, 2017

Or “How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you“. Product management has two diversity problems. The first one is well-acknowledged: our industry must have more women, other ethnicities, and better representation from LGBTQIA. The second is more subtle: in those instances when we do achieve diversity, and especially cross-cultural diversity, we Read more »

Seven Simple Steps to Stress-Free Prioritisation

BY Rik Higham on March 3, 2017

Job stories, backlog items, workshop ideas, roadmap features… it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of potential directions you can take a product in. And it’s natural to want order in this chaos. Prioritisation is a core part of Product Management, and it’s the topic I most commonly get asked about by other Product Read more »

Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

BY Thor Mitchell on February 24, 2017

Last October I took part in Digital Wave, a conference in Bournemouth that brings together over 1,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 19 to learn about the opportunities offered by a career in the technology sector. I attended the conference to represent product.careers, a project I launched last year to raise awareness Read more »

Measuring KPIs for a Platform vs a Revenue-Generating Product

BY Tori Funkhouser on February 22, 2017

There are some important differences between managing a solutions vs a platform product, in terms of providing product value. One of the key differences is in how you determine and track valuable key performance indicators (KPIs). This post focuses on the differences for managing KPIs not just for platforms overall, but for content management systems Read more »

Five Essential Steps for Getting into IoT Product Management

BY Daniel Elizalde on February 21, 2017

You want to get into IoT product management, but where do you start? What skills do you need? Which companies are working on IoT today? Start with these five essential steps. According to analyst firm Gartner, there will be over 20 billion connected devices by 2020. This trend is fuelled by companies around the world Read more »

Why you Need a Product Analytics Playbook

BY Spenser Skates on February 16, 2017

When it comes to successfully implementing a data-informed approach to product analytics, it’s easy to find lists of tips and tactics. It’s much harder to put together a strategy you can return to time and again. Every product is different, of course. There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. But we do have common methodologies for framing Read more »

Product Management is About Making Mistakes

BY Gabriel García Fernández on February 14, 2017

Once upon a time, I met a product manager of a company who was leading a freemium model product, with some success. He regularly interviewed users to work out their needs, he gathered and analyzed usage data of the product to extract new requirements, and he defined new features with a high level of detail. Read more »

Innovation: Best Practice for Product Leaders

BY Salma El Shurafa on February 13, 2017

In a world where the pace of change is constantly increasing and becoming more complex, can you really afford to stay still? Living and working in the United Arab Emirates, with its blindingly rich cities and unbelievably luxe lifestyles, I see that the value of innovation is obvious. After all, how does this crazy-wealthy region Read more »