Building product teams

SUNDAY REWIND: Why mistakes are key for product excellence

This week’s Sunday Rewind is product leader Francesca Cortesi’s post from 2021 on how important mistakes and failure are for product people and why they are key to success and excellence.

Eira Hayward

SUNDAY REWIND: How do you build a successful product team?

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a look back to a report from 2021 in which we spoke to a number of seasoned product people for an in-depth look at how to build a successful product team.

Eira Hayward

Building diverse products: A conversation with Annie Jean-Baptiste, product leader at Google

Annie Jean-Baptiste is Head of Product Inclusion at Google, working at the large tech company for over a decade. We caught up with her to find out about her experiences of leading products at Google, and her views on how people can inspire diversity in their workplaces.

Louron Pratt

New structures for product growth and product-centric organizations

Hans-Jörg Roser, Head of Product Management at H&F Solutions GmbH discusses challenges in corporate communication between Sales and Marketing, explores trends in product management, and advocates for a product-centric organizational structure, emphasizing agile scaling and holistic approaches to foster successful transitions and employee empowerment.

Hans-Jörg Roser

Stop “protecting your team”

Amanda White, senior product manager at Tanzu Labs, looks at the unintended consequences of protecting product teams from interruptions and suggests that more importance should be placed in developing balanced teams with high levels of autonomy.

Amanda White

Creating a safe environment to foster team resilience

In this guest post, product leader, Johanna Feick explains how leaders can create a safe environment for teams to become more resilient and build great products.

Johanna Feick

Diana Stepner: Building a better product team through positive leadership character

Diana Stepner, Head of Product, Education at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative discusses how positive leadership can be an essential tool to build better product teams.

Diana Stepner

Breaking down misconceptions to create healthier teams by Adrian Howard

Nishrath A

The fusion phenomenon: product strategy vs UX strategy

Phillip Keiken makes the case for the unification of product strategy and UX strategy - what he calls the fusion phenomenon. He predicts it will usher in a new era of integrated, user-centric product delivery.

Phillip Keiken

Creating courageous product teams with Yi-Wei Ang

In this #mtpcon San Francisco talk, Yi-Wei Ang, Chief Product Officer at Talabat, tells us why it's so important to develop a culture of courage across a product team, and he shows us some ways to achieve it

Eira Hayward

Mastering perspective – zoom in, zoom out as a product leader by Navya Rehani Gupta

Navya Rehani Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Peek, takes us through the art of zooming in and zooming out and finding the right focus for every perspective and situation.

Eira Hayward

Airbnb's product management shift: the view from product leaders

The discussion on Airbnb's decision to morph its product management function into a product marketing manager role has thrown up an interesting debate. This post canvasses the views of a number of well-known product leaders in an attempt to lay out the debate as clearly and concisely as possible.

Beks Yelland