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ProductTech: The industry, the discipline, have we gone too far?

BY Becky Yelland on March 10, 2023

Is it time to stop the product management obsession with frameworks and methodologies – are they over-complicating the work Read more »

Identify and manage imposter syndrome by Phyllis Njoroge

BY Eira Hayward on November 4, 2022

In this #mtpcon SF+Americas 2022 breakout session, Phyllis Njoroge, Product Manager at Redfin, talks about her journey through imposter syndrome. Phyllis is also the author of a book, From fraud to freedom, that looks at the factors that cause self doubt. Watch this video or read on for key highlights from the talk. Phyllis is careful Read more »

SUNDAY REWIND: If you don’t feel like an imposter you’re doing something wrong by Rik Higham

BY Louron Pratt on July 31, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind, we look back to when Rik Higham, Staff Product Manager at Deliveroo, led a talk on Imposter Syndrome, and that if you’re not feeling like an imposter in product, then you’re probably doing something wrong… Read more »

Be the best imperfect product manager you can be by Osaseri Guobadia

BY Jon Horvath on December 6, 2021

Describing the importance of confidence in product management careers, Osaseri Guobadia shares advice to help us learn, develop, and grow in our product roles. Read more »

You are the product - Kristina Walcker-Mayer on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on July 8, 2020

Product people have a lot of things in common: we’re curious, we like connecting the dots, we try to solve more problems than we create, we get bored easily, we’re pretty social (even if we also identify as introverts), and we enjoy looking at things at both a tactical and strategic level. Unfortunately, we’re also Read more »

How I Moved From Engineering Into Product Management

BY Victor Kosonen on March 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? Certainly, there are many ways to achieve this. Here I’ll explain how I did it, and I’ll share my personal experience of the process so that you can know what to expect from this transition. If you’re considering changing from engineer to product Read more »

If you Pretend Everything's Under Control Then it Will be

BY Kate Clark on March 19, 2020

Why, in Product, it pays to fake it till you make it till you become it. Amy Cuddy’s famous TED talk says that if you fake confidence you will eventually become confident. Cuddy claims that by using confident body language like standing tall with arms on hips, we can convince our brains that we are Read more »

Mental Health as a Product Person - Let's Talk

BY Saielle DaSilva on October 10, 2019

This post was originally written ahead of World Mental Health Day in October 2019 because we both struggle with mental health and we feel it’s important to speak out and reflect on the issue of mental health at work. In this blog, we’ll share our own personal experiences, and consider how mental health problems such Read more »

Banish your inner critic by Denise Jacobs

BY Emily Tate on August 2, 2019

What blocks us from doing our best work? This is the question that Denise Jacobs, author of Banish Your Inner Critic, asks us in the opening keynote of #mtpcon San Francisco. Read more »

Peace in the Valley: Tips for Growing Product Managers by Rob Crook

BY Adam Warburton on April 1, 2019

In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, Rob Crook of Moonpig talks about product management mastery, and how to overcome  imposter syndrome. He says that Robert Green calls it mastery, Tim Ferris calls it becoming superhuman, and Cal Newport says you need to practise it for 10,000 hours. There’s a modern obsession with self improvement – millennials spend double Read more »