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The future of product with Janna Bastow and James Mayes at ProductTank San Francisco

BY Ketaki Vaidya on November 21, 2023

The former co-founders of Mind the Product, Janna Bastow and James Mayes joined the community to deliver talks on redefining traditional roadmapping and building support for product professionals. Read on for a recap of their key points discussed. Read more »

Let's talk about product roadmaps — The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on November 2, 2022

Lily and Randy in this special episode, take a trip down memory lane to have a chat about the best Roadmap insights they’ve heard from a range of product episodes on the podcast over the past year. Tune in to listen to actionable insights from Philips Nwachukwu, Janice Fraser, Maahir Shah, and more! Read more »

Defining creative roadmaps in product development

BY Sam Bowman on December 29, 2011

In this guest post, Sam Bowman delves into product roadmaps, and how they can be a crucial asset in your product development journey.  Read more »

Roadmaps Are Dead. Long Live Roadmaps! - Janna Bastow on The Product Experience

BY The Product Experience on October 28, 2020

When you have questions about roadmaps, it pays to talk to someone who has spent way too much of her life thinking about them. Janna Bastow – co-founder of both Mind the Product and ProdPad—has been trying to fix the problems of roadmaps for most of her professional life. She hacked together the first version Read more »

Product Management is Simple, but Very, Very Hard

BY Simon Cast on May 20, 2019

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain At its core Product Management is about making choices between countless possibilities to deliver value to the end user while meeting organisational goals and constraints. Simple huh? But not straightforward, nor easy to achieve. Indeed, this is Read more »

What Monzo Learned From Scaling its Lending Team

BY Richard Cadman on May 13, 2019

I’m a product manager at Monzo. We’re a UK-based bank and our mission is to make money work for everyone. We recently reached 1,800,000 current account customers – after launching in January 2018 – and are focusing on growing our user base and revenue. We’re currently profitable on a per user basis, but not overall as Read more »

Product Strategy, the Missing Link by Nicholas Goubert

BY Graeme Goulden on April 19, 2019

It may be obvious, but defining your strategy, goals, and mission is something we all need to have rooted at the heart of everything we do – but it’s very easy to get pulled in countless different directions while we try to deliver against these. In this talk at MTP Engage Manchester, VP of Digital Read more »

Podcast: Roadmaps, OKRs, Vision and Prioritisation with Bruce McCarthy

BY The Product Experience on February 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched.  He joined us live at the Mind the Product Leadership Forum to chat about how he builds his own roadmaps, prioritisation, product vision, OKRs and quite a bit more. Quote Read more »

Product Leadership at News UK by Jo Wickremasinghe

BY James Gadsby Peet on June 7, 2018

The Times and The Sun, flagship brands of News UK, are on a journey to become more product led in how they develop and maintain their digital assets. To move them forward, Jo has introduced product lifecycle thinking, shared KPIs, product portfolios, and a lean process for testing new ideas. Along the way she’s learned Read more »

How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

BY Jonathan Waddingham on May 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible Read more »