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User Research Tools and Methodologies - Morag McLaren (ProductTank London)

BY James Gadsby Peet on March 31, 2017

Morag McLaren Product Manager at Whatusersdo.com talks to ProductTank London about User Research Tools and Methodologies. The Context & Timing of Research Changes the Results you get You need to find out the context of any insight you are gaining about a user – otherwise you won’t know the why or how, just the what. Read more »

User Research - Making it Work in Government - Katy Arnold (ProductTank London)

BY James Gadsby Peet on March 29, 2017

Katy Arnold, Head of User Research and Design at The Home Office, talks to ProductTank London about making User Research Work in Government. The civil service has traditionally been focussed on moving paper The Digital team at the Home Office’s remit is to help the rest of the organisation move towards a more digitally enabled Read more »

Product Management Tools in Everyday Life - Oisin Zimmermann (ProductTank Oslo)

BY Jess Lane on March 27, 2017

When you first start building a product you have a lot of decisions to make. You have to figure out what to build, what to build first, and know how to explain your decisions to both yourself and your team. As the ball starts rolling, keeping track of what to deliver and when as well Read more »

Building a challenger bank the Monzo way - Ole Mahrt (ProductTank London)

BY Jess Lane on March 23, 2017

In 2013, the Bank of England scaled back the rules and regulations involved in starting a bank. They hoped to kick-start technological innovation within the banking industry through increasing competition. Companies taking advantage of these changes are aptly labelled as “challenger banks”. Over the last three years there has been new banks springing up across Read more »

Using Experimentation to Drive Product - Stephen Pavlovich (CEO of Conversion.com)

BY James Gadsby Peet on March 20, 2017

Stephen Pavlovich, CEO of Conversion.com, talks to ProductTank London about Using Experimentation to Drive Product Why aren’t people converting and what experiments can you run to try and fix that? The aim of any experiment should be to better understand your users and apply those insights to your product. This does not have to be Read more »

Why your IT Project is Doomed to Fail - David Kullmann (ProductTank NYC)

BY Tremis Skeete on March 17, 2017

David Kullman talks to ProductTank NYC about why most projects are doomed to fail right from the very start. David is a Partner and Development Manager at CitrusByte, working with both large corporations and startups to develop innovative software solutions to challenges they may be facing. IT Project Failures – The Statistics In 1995, IT Read more »

What is the ROI of Design? - Nate Clinton (ProductTank San Francisco)

BY Jess Lane on March 14, 2017

Nate Clinton works as the Managing Director for Cooper in their San Francisco studio. Before Cooper, Nate has held product and design leadership positions at StarMine, Thomson Reuters, and BuildZoom. As a consultancy Cooper leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership. They regularly tackle the challenge of assessing and communicating the value Read more »

Taking a Product from Conception to Delivery

BY Graham Kennedy on March 13, 2017

In this talk I gave at ProductTank Singapore towards the end of 2016, I parsed the steps required to take a product from conception to delivery, with a strong slant toward the business of products. Throughout my experience as a product leader, I’ve spent much of my time and effort optimizing how to align deliverables with Read more »

What's the ROI of Innovation? - David Binetti

BY Chris Massey on March 10, 2017

David Binetti is a six-time entrepreneur, having served on the founding team of companies ranging from consumer (QFN, later Intuit’s Quicken.com), to industrial (Arch Rock, acquired by Cisco), to government (USA.gov, acquired by the Federal Government), to political (Votizen, acquired by Brigade) — with three stints as Founder/CEO. Currently, David helps organizations innovate faster with 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 »