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Giving direction in product with Janna Bastow, Chiedza Muguti, and Nacho Bassino

BY Arne Kittler on September 22, 2022

This session On Giving Direction as a product manager was one of the themed sessions during MTPEngage Hamburg 2022. A stellar line-up of speakers shared their respective perspectives on how product leaders or product managers provide others with the necessary orientation to pull in one direction. Read more »

Prioritising customer needs with Dan Olsen

BY Jon Horvath on September 12, 2022

In this keynote session at #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022, Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Product Playbook shares the importance versus satisfaction framework, and demonstrates how spending time understanding problems, rather than offering solutions, results in better products. Read more »

Learnings from London: How to build a billion dollar app

BY Louron Pratt on August 19, 2022

This week in our Learnings from London series, we turn our attention to #mtpcon London 2013 where George Berkowski, former Head of Product at hit startup Hailo, led a session on the main stage to inspire us on how feasible it is to build a billion-dollar app! Read more »

Learnings from London: Marty Cagan on making products customers love

BY Louron Pratt on August 12, 2022

Our London stage has played host to an exceptional group of product speakers over the past decade, so each week in the run-up to this year’s event, we’ll bring you the most exciting moments from #mtpcon London in years gone by. We start with the year it all began. At the 2012 #mtpcon London, Marty Cagan led an incredible session on building products that customers love. Watch the video in full or read on for Marty’s top tips! Read more »

Rethinking delivery with product operations in the age of product

BY Eira Hayward on July 22, 2022

In this #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022 Spotlight session, sponsored by Pendo, Christine Itwaru, Senior Director of Product Operations, and Rick Kadlac, Lead Product Operations Systems Manager, look at how to rethink delivery with product operations. Read more »

How to recognise and beat the 'knowing' gap – Christina Wodtke at MTP Engage Hamburg

BY Dave Martin on July 15, 2022

On a warm summer afternoon at MTP Engage Hamburg 2022, Christina Wodtke, lecturer and author including the bestseller Radical Focus explained how the challenge of building an effective workplace to deliver innovative technology is hindered by fast thinking, defensive cultures, conflict aversion and misaligned incentives. Read more »

Innovating in insurance by Arnout Hemel

BY Andres Phillips on July 8, 2022

In this ProductTank Tokyo talk, Arnout Hemel, former Head of Product at ride hailing and food delivery business Grab, provides some insight into building products in the insurance industry. Read more »

Why does my product suck? by Jen Dante

BY Jon Horvath on July 4, 2022

In this keynote session at #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022, Jen Dante, VP of Product at Ancestry examines how over and under scoping cannot be eradicated from the product process, rather we can optimise them, based on the agility of our organisation, to deliver the most effective value. Watch this video or read on for key highlights from the talk. Read more »

Moving from feature teams to product teams by Audrey Crane

BY Andres Phillips on June 20, 2022

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Audrey Crane, Partner at DesignMap shows how Product Managers can leverage design teams and methodologies to move from feature teams to empowered product teams. Watch the video session in full or read on for the highlights: Level set on terms Audrey begins by clarifying the differences and similarities between Read more »

Robotics and society by Cynthia Yeung

BY Eira Hayward on May 27, 2022

In this #mtpcon SF+Americas keynote, Cynthia Yeung, Head of Product at Plus One Robotics, gets us thinking about human/robot interaction and how we might discover a deeper understanding of our own humanity through robotics and AI. Read more »