Product management career
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Managing up: Leveraging one-on-one check-ins for your professional development
Practical advice for product managers left feeling like they are lost and alone in career development Read more »
What's a product leader anyway?
Clear and common structures for product management job titles will help us all better understand our careers, roles, and teams. So why don’t we have them? Read more »
Growing your product career: #mtpcon London highlights
Navigating your product career wherever you are on the ladder can be difficult to nail, especially with no product paths being forged the same. With only five weeks to go until #mtpcon London, here are some of the best nuggets of advice from speakers who have taken to the #mtpcon stage over the years. Read more »
Reflections on my journey to becoming a product manager
When I was about five years old my kindergarten teacher asked my class about our aspirations for the future. While the boys around me eagerly declared their dreams of becoming police officers, firefighters or footballers, I stood tall and declared: I wanna be a product manager. (What I actually said was I want to be Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: In my humble opinion by Thor Mitchell
It’s important for product managers to remember to be humble. This talk from Thor Mitchell at MTP Engage Manchester lays out why Read more »
Are you thinking about your internal product as a commercial product?
Some sound advice for product managers who want to transition from internal to commercial products and make the most of the experience they already have Read more »
SUNDAY REWIND: The PMwheel – a compass for the product manager development journey
This week’s Sunday Rewind goes back to a 2020 post from product coach Petra Wille that explains her framework “The PMwheel”, and how to use it to understand a product manager’s responsibilities. Read more »
February's top product management content
From case studies to pricing strategies and career advice, February was another month of wide-ranging articles from Mind the Product, with something for everyone, no matter where they are in their product career. Read on to catch up on popular content that you may have missed. Read more »
Vidya Srinivasan: An original product manager
Vidya Srinivasan has many strings to her bow. She’s a senior product manager, public speaker, patent holder, a diversity and inclusion advocate and a classically trained Indian singer who has spent her career to date working for big tech companies. She went from a master’s in computer science to an internship at Microsoft where she Read more »
Domain expert or practice expert: Your product management career
What sort of product expert do you want to be? In the first of a regular series, Mind the Product’s own Emily Tate offers some insights for product people pondering their career choices One of the most common questions I get when talking to product managers about their career path is, should I become an Read more »