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Insights from Building Cross-Functional Teams

BY Lorian Leong on July 14, 2016

Worlds collide in this detailed discussion between product management, UX, and Engineering heads at Schibsted Media, showing us how their teams coordinate and prioritise development. Jaqueline Dozier (PM), Atelach Alemu Argaw (Dev), and Axel Haugan (UX) guide us through these familiar but troubled waters. Scope Ideas into Manageable Pieces We’ve seen products move from a Read more »

Level Up your Product Management Skills at #mtpcon SF

BY Martin Eriksson on January 19, 2016

Based on your feedback we’re adding an optional pre-conference day full of in-depth product management workshops to help you level up your skills and kick even more ass than before! We’ve lined up five amazing full-day workshops with true experts in the field and we’re keeping them small and focused with a maximum of 24 Read more »

Build better products with effective MVPs

BY Danielle Colyer on July 21, 2015

The concept of an MVP – or Minimum Viable Product – is a one that comes up a lot in product development. MVPs are an intrinsic part of the build-measure-learn process at the heart of product management processes, offering maximum benefit for minimum effort. Correct implementation of MVPs allows product managers to learn more about customers, deliver Read more »

Tips for a Successful Alpha Release: Focus on the Entire Solution, not Just the Software

BY Diego Pereira on February 19, 2015

Customers’ feedback on products is crucial for success. Engaging honest prospects /customers in the early stages (Alpha Testing & Release) of the Product Lifecycle is critically important to ensuring your products start on the right foot (so to speak). Especially, since at some point you’ll ask customers to pay for the service, right? 1) A Read more »

Bringing MVP Culture to Every Product Feature

BY Diego Pereira on October 29, 2014

What “lean” means for us in product development I very firmly include myself in the group of people converted to the “lean” product philosophy, but what does this word really mean? Well for the broader context, lean derives from post-war Japanese culture, where limited resources were the standard. Working in these conditions – a situation Read more »

What I learned from building the same MVP 3 times, on 3 continents

BY Rif Kiamil on April 14, 2014

As explained in my earlier post, in summer 2013, I built the same minimum viable product (MVP) three times on three different continents. It was an experiment with a purpose: To evaluate three platforms and three teams at the same time; and to utilize the “lean way” in using validated learning to build my new company’s Read more »