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Where Does Product Fit? What's Being a CPO Really Like? Dave Wascha Tells All

BY Imogen Schels on November 4, 2020

In this video, Zoopla’s CPTO Dave Wascha shares his take on the reality of the CPO role, where Product fits within the organisation, what skills product managers need to be successful, and more. Watch the session in full or read on for the top 5 highlights. About Dave Wascha Dave Wascha started as a product Read more »

How Real Product Teams Make OKRs work: Extended Report

BY Timm Richter on November 3, 2020

The popular Objectives and Key Results framework (OKRs) can be a powerful tool, provided it’s understood and used correctly. With this in mind, we recently undertook a survey to understand how companies are using OKRs in the wild. Our survey was run in collaboration with Timm Richter, CEO of NEO Culture and former chief product officer at Read more »

How To Manage Product Tension and Lean Into It Effectively

BY Marc Abraham on October 24, 2020

In my book, Managing Product = Managing Tension, I’ve focused on what it is that impacts the products we build and how we manage them, namely; mind, matter, and moves. Each of these factors in their own right creates tension and in my new book, I outline how we can make the most of these Read more »

The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey

BY Petra Wille on October 23, 2020

Back in 2016, I was working with the product organization of a larger tech company. They asked me to help every product manager on the team “understand the role of the product manager better,” and to help the product managers understand what “better” would actually look like. This was not an easy challenge and, although Read more »

Firing Trump: A Lesson in How to Live Up to Your Values

BY Eira Hayward on October 16, 2020

In September 2020 behaviour analytics company Hotjar fired Donald Trump and the GOP as clients, saying that taking the business contravened its company values. CEO David Darmanin and chief product and technology officer Mohannad Ali issued a statement by way of a letter to the Hotjar community, explaining it had updated its acceptable use policy to disallow sites that Read more »

How Product in APAC Has Adapted During COVID: In Conversation With Colin Pal

BY Laura Phillips on October 15, 2020

In our latest membership AMA, Colin Pal, former CPO at Caterspot, shed light on the product scene in APAC and how product teams in the region have adapted during COVID. He discusses remote working, job hunting, internationalisation and localisation, exciting product innovations, and more. You can watch the entire session again, or read on for Read more »

Predictive Tech and Data Ethics: Part 2 - It’s Time To Operationalise Data Ethics

BY Nathan Kinch on October 14, 2020

Following on from Predictive Tech and Data Ethics: Part 1 – the Pros and Cons our intention with this post is to help individual practitioners and business leaders better understand our rationale behind why data ethics matters and how it can be done better. This isn’t about feel-good principles-based statements, it’s about effectively operationalising data Read more »

Predictive tech and data ethics: Part 1 - the pros and cons

BY Eira Hayward on October 9, 2020

This article is part of our AI Knowledge Hub, created with Pendo. For similar articles and even more free AI resources, visit the AI Knowledge Hub now. As someone once said, technology companies are quick to focus on what they can do, but not so quick to examine “the how they do it”. Predictive technology may Read more »

Marty Cagan on Empowering Teams, Discovery Challenges, Alignment, and More

BY Laura Phillips on October 1, 2020

In the latest of our Prioritised AMAs, we were joined by Marty Cagan who took your questions on empowering teams, discovery challenges, Product Owners, transitioning from product role to a leadership role, and much more. If you missed it, you can watch the whole session again, or read on for a transcript* of selected questions Read more »

Build What Matters by Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster: Get Chapters 1-2 Free

BY Rajesh Nerlikar on September 24, 2020

In their new book, Build What Matters (£26.99), Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster introduce you to their methodology for becoming a product-driven company. Through their tested strategies, stories of personal success, and case studies from their product advisory clients at Prodify, you’ll learn how Vision-Led Product Management helps you achieve company objectives by meeting both current and Read more »