ProductTank

ProductTank has hit Stockholm. The very first ProductTank Sthlm took place on May 22nd with support from Klarna. Speakers at ProductTank Sthlm’s premiere were Annie Thorell, Founder of Faces of Tech and consultant at Netlight and Ola Möller, Designer and Founder of MethodKit. Annie Thorell on what it means to be a Product Manager Annie Read more »

On the 4th birthday of ProductTank London in May, Thomas Schwaiger (@tschwaiger) invited three speakers to share with us their experiences of building and working in B2B (business to business) companies. James Gill (@JamesJGill), Founder and CEO of GoSquared Rif Kiamil (@rifkiamil), Founder and CEO of FOODit Clancy Childs (@cchilds), Chief Product and Marketing Officer Read more »

Working in B2B product management is rife with pitfalls and failure states.  Clancy Childs, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Tizaro and our final speaker at ProductTank May, walked us through a variety of the tough situations he’s had to face and overcome. In his talk he attempts to help B2B product managers all over, covering things like Squeaky Read more »

It’s always a journey to figure out your first MVP, but FOODit took it to a new level by building 3 MVPs concurrently. At ProductTank May, which was all about B2B product management, Rif Kiamil (@rifkiamil) walked us through the steps he took and decisions they made in order to build and validate their first product, and Read more »

B2B isn’t an easy world, especially when you’ve only got a small team trying to serve a demanding market. At ProductTank May, which was all about B2B Product Management, James Gill (@jamesjgill), CEO of GoSquared talked about how they built out a great B2B product with a small team. He covered how they decide what Read more »

On March  24th, 2014, a rocket started off in Munich. We had our first ProductTank Munich event only 3 months after Yann Milin, Michael Ludwig and myself, Anna Creitz met. As a product manager in Munich, I’ve always had a hard time finding other product managers to talk about our jobs and the challenges we Read more »

Four years ago I founded ProductTank with the simple goal of gathering a couple of product managers together in London to share our experiences and lessons learned. Product Management can be a lonely and sometimes frustrating job – especially in a start-up – and I wanted a group of peers I could kvetch about it Read more »

We recently had our second ProductTank that was all about Internet of Things, though today we’re sharing a video that’s a throwback to our first IoT/Connected Devices event, back in November. At that ProductTank, we had Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (@iotwatch) of Designswarm showed us how Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way product design is being done.  She talked about how Read more »

Cheap sensors are readily available, data is easy to gather, analyse and visualise, and there are people and companies interested, and cash available for experimentation. However, in this age of Internet of Things, the combinations of sensors, hardware, software and data being created are still relatively simplistic. At ProductTank April, Patrick Bergel, Founder and CEO Read more »

We are at the dawn of the Internet of Things (IoT), and in time, we will be living in a world where we’ll have to manage trillions of connected devices. At ProductTank April, Yodit Stanton, a software developer and founder of opensensors.IO, explored the implications of building services for cities, bringing together the physical and Read more »