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Product Management is More Important Than Ever

BY Martin Eriksson on October 13, 2016

Product Management as a role has moved on in leaps and bounds during my career. As the number of people gathered at Mind the Product London 2016 prove – it’s a skill and a job that more and more companies understand, appreciate, and seek out. And the job itself has evolved – from traffic managing Read more »

Thank you for our best ever #mtpcon

BY Martin Eriksson on October 7, 2016

Last Friday we gathered over 1,400 passionate product people from over 40 countries to the iconic Barbican for our fifth London conference. I think we can safely say it was our biggest and best ever – the talks were amazing, the atmosphere was electric with conversation and debate, and the afterparty was as epic as Read more »

What we Learned at Mind the Product 2016

BY Martin Eriksson on October 2, 2016

We came, we watched, we listened. And we tweeted – within half an hour of the start of Friday’s conference, #mtpcon was trending in London. But what did we learn? Read more »

Conference Strategies: How We Maximised Value From Attending MTPCon

BY Mark Tattersall on September 6, 2016

How do you get actionable value from a conference like Mind the Product? Too often that post-conference buzz dissipates into tactical priorities and before you know it, weeks have gone by and you’ve forgotten the items you wanted to follow up on or discuss more with your team. This is a story of how the Read more »

Announcing the #mtpcon London 2016 Speakers

BY Martin Eriksson on August 17, 2016

[UPDATED] We’re really excited about this year’s #mtpcon London conference on September 30, as it promises to be our best yet. Not only are we adding a ton of optional events before and after the conference, we are doubling the number of workshops, adding more networking opportunities at the conference, bringing back the hot lunch Read more »

Remaking the Making Company - From Focusing on Technology to Experiences

BY Martin Eriksson on August 17, 2016

Not that long ago new technologies were magical, and we were so happy when they just worked. But today we expect more, and assume, demand even, that digital experiences don’t just work really well but are simple, intuitive and fun to use too. This means companies need to stop thinking purely about technology, and think Read more »

Building Happy Product Teams like Heist Teams by Laura Klein

BY Martin Eriksson on July 1, 2016

Laura Klein has been an engineer, researcher, designer, product manager and consultant, which means she’s worked with a lot of teams. But what makes a happy team? In writing her next book “Building Better Products”, she donned her research hat and interviewed a number of product teams around the world. In this talk at Mind Read more »

Why We Need Product People to Save AI, by Ashwini Asokan

BY Martin Eriksson on June 24, 2016

In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Ashwini Asokan sums up the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) today as Brains, Bots, and Bullshit. For the last few years the headlines have been clear – AI could destroy us and ruin humanity, with killer bots taking our jobs and becoming our overlords. Clearly we’re Read more »

The Experience is the Product by Peter Merholz

BY Martin Eriksson on June 17, 2016

We tend to forget that the experience is the product we’re delivering. Every technical product category through history has followed this pattern – from a technology for technologies sake, to a feature war, to an experience. In this awesome talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Peter Merholz highlights the importance of the last stage Read more »

Making Sense of Any Product by Abby Covert

BY Chris Massey on June 10, 2016

When people think about Information Architecture, they often think of walls covered in post-it notes and whiteboards covered in notes and diagrams. But these are just tools that represent plans and ideas and, more importantly, they’re a way to get into people’s heads and represent the information they’re working with. Information is a ‘material’ that Read more »