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Product Management for the Internet of Things

BY Daniel Elizalde on April 3, 2016

In this talk from ProductTank San Francisco, I walk you through the IoT Decision Framework I developed to tackle the complexity of IoT products. The framework provides a structured way to organize your product strategy, identify gaps, and build your IoT roadmap. The IoT Decision Framework The greatest challenge of managing an IoT solution is Read more »

DIY User Research for Product People

BY Chris Massey on March 18, 2016

The specialism of Julia Shalet – a.k.a. The Product Doctor –  is in driving and enabling people-centred product leadership for those working in fast pace environments. She works with clients such as Pearson and Fitbug, enabling their staff to be ‘lean’ in their approach to customer and product development. In this energetic and insightful talk, Read more »

Finding Product Opportunities with User Research

BY Martin Eriksson on January 15, 2016

In this ProductTank talk, Andrew Harder talked about common problems that product teams face in finding and choosing opportunities to pursue. He illustrated ways that user research can provide a deep understanding of user needs and help keep product discovery on track by knowing what questions you can and can’t ask of users, as well Read more »

10 Tips for Getting UX Research Off the Ground

BY Martin Eriksson on January 12, 2016

Michelle Lotia joined us at ProductTank to share her top 10 tips for getting started with UX research, based on her experience building the User Research function at Notonthehighstreet.com from the ground up. While building the function itself, she was also working to educate the organisation about the process, value and collaboration possibilities that having Read more »

Video: Lean Personas by Adrian Howard

BY Martin Eriksson on January 5, 2016

How do you get everybody in your company to understand your customers — especially if you’re not 100% certain yourself? You ‘got out of the building’ and you’ve talked to your customers, but how do you communicate and build on what you’ve learned when you get back? Traditionally this meant a lot of up front Read more »

Video: 'Understanding Understanding' in Design for Behavioural Change

BY Danielle Colyer on June 19, 2015

In March, ProductTank focused on the role of psychology in developing and managing products. In this video Dr Dan Lockton, a visiting research tutor in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art, discusses the importance of ‘understanding understanding’ in design for behaviour change. The video covers how emotion can influence behaviour change – from black number Read more »

Video: Getting the Most from Your User Research

BY Danielle Colyer on June 17, 2015

User Research Throughout the Product Lifecycle was the theme of January’s ProductTank. This video shares Rosemary King’s talk on getting the most out of your user research and interviews, and how to overcome common mistakes. A Product Manager at Pivotal Labs, Rosemary highlights a number of what she calls “user research anti patterns” to highlight Read more »

Video: The Reality of Bringing Services into Existence

BY Janna Bastow on November 26, 2014

“Every product is a service waiting to happen” was the theme of ProductTank in October. This video shares Max Gadney’s talk on the reality of bringing services into existence. Max Gadney is the leader of After The Flood, a data design agency developing strategy and services and creating digital products and film. Prior to this, Read more »

Video: Turning Commoditised Products into Value-adding Services

BY Janna Bastow on November 18, 2014

This video captures Tim John’s talk from October’s ProductTank, which was about “Every product is a service waiting to happen” Tim Johns is a product manager for Hive – British Gas’ corporate start-up. He has been responsible for the development of the Hive Active Heating service, launched in October last year. Prior to his current Read more »

ProductTank Stockholm - Creating drive in product development

BY Janna Bastow on October 16, 2014

ProductTank Sthlm August was all about “Creating drive in product development”.  It featured three great speakers: Siavash Ghorbani (@siavashq), CTO & Co Founder of Tictail, talked about Building a Product Driven Organisation: “I’m planning to talk about the different phases we as an organisation went through as we grew from 4 to 30 over the past two years Read more »