Experienced, customer-focused product and technology leader. Empathetic, enthusiastic, love a challenge. I take a people focused approach to both products and teams, I’m interested in how people think, feel and do, and applying this to the design of products and services that solve genuine problems and user needs. I’m also close to the tech and have grown development teams from single digits to multiple Scrum teams, and have tried and tested most flavours of Agile and Lean inspired processes along the way.

Sharon Kean

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A product manager’s approach to growing teams

Sarah Oliver is passionate about building products to solve real business problems. She has 15+ years’ experience in B2B product management across the financial, legal, energy and logistics sectors. She is also a Chartered Marketer interested in the intersect of product marketing and product management and how we effectively launch new products. She is currently leading product for a scaling up Norwegian-based company moving to a product-led approach.

Sarah Oliver

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How Influential Leadership Builds Winning Products – Oluwatobi Otokiti

Andres is a freelance writer and digital marketer with a background in engineering and a keen interest in the latest technology advancements. He currently helps tech companies and startups tell their stories by turning their complex ideas into easy to understand material. You can reach out to him on LinkedIn

Andres Phillips

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The Product Manager’s Identity Crisis by Mitchell Gillespie

Emily brings nearly 15 years of product management experience to her role as Managing Director for Mind the Product. While she has worked across a variety of industries, she will always have a soft spot for the travel industry where she spent most of her early career building software for airlines and developing a leading consumer travel app, TripCase. Emily is passionate about the craft of product management and loves talking about new ways to make products people love.

Emily Tate

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I've been in the digital industry for over 10 years and have worked across small and large charities, as well as my own freelance projects. I am now Director of Digital at the sector leading creative agency William Joseph. 

Having been at Cancer Research UK for the last four years, I have been able to work on high volume, high profile campaigns such as Race for Life, Dryathlon and the much-quoted #nomakeupselfie. 

In that time I helped drive forward the charity’s digital product and marketing capabilities to be some of the most respected and successful in the sector. 

I'm always excited to work with other organisations, share expertise and swap cat gifs. Give me a shout!

James Gadsby Peet

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Esther is a highly driven leader with extensive international experience and over 5 years of experience in the technology industry specialising in product management, customer experience, agile and lean practices and project delivery. She has a strong track record of delivering strategic and operational initiatives across the financial services and QSR industry.

Esther Kieft

I want to be a Product Owner: The Hard Truths Revealed

Ben Staples has over 7 years of Product Management and Product Marketing eCommerce experience.  He is currently employed at Nordstrom as a Senior Product Manager responsible for the product pages on Nordstrom.com.  Previously, Ben was a Senior Product Manager for Trunk Club responsible for their iOS and Android apps.  Ben started his Product career as a Product Manager for Vistaprint where he was responsible for their cart and Checkout experiences.  Before leaving Vistaprint, Ben founded the Vistaprint Product Management guild with over 40 members.
I do product management consulting!  Interested in finding out more? Want to get notified when my next product article comes out? Interested in getting into Product Management but don't know how?  Want even more book recommendations?! <a href="http://www.ben-staples.com/contact">Let me know!</a>

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Three Hidden Problems That can Ruin Your Agile Retrospectives

As VP Growth, Nilan is responsible for Product at TransferWise. Prior to TransferWise Nilan advised and scaled early startups on growth (including HouseTrip), and was Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras. He’s passionate about building products that people love so much they grow themselves, and the culture required to build those products.

Nilan Peiris

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Scaling from 60 to 1,000 People

With his background in technical editing, community building and product marketing, Chris' approach to product management is inherently centered around user narratives. He spent the first few years of his career working with the B2B developer products, prototyped an experimental technical publishing platform along the way, and then kick-started the Mind the Product platform. You can find him at ProductTank, or on twitter as @camassey.

Chris Massey

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Patrick Roelof ‘s 10 Essential tips for new Product Managers

Rik is a Principal Product Manager at Skyscanner. He writes about Product Management on medium.com/@rikhigham and created ExperimentationHub.com to help you become an expert in A/B testing!

Rik Higham

Time Management – a Leader’s Responsibility

Gabrielle Bufrem is a Senior Product Manager at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco where she works with a range of clients from enterprise to start-ups in order to build user-centred products. Additionally, she is a Product Management Trainer for Mind the Product.

Gabrielle Bufrem

Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491982276" rel="nofollow">Product Management in Practice</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492033510/" rel="nofollow">Agile for Everybody</a>. Helping product teams communicate and collaborate better. Partner at Sudden Compass. Past: Songza, Google, Bitly, Pitchfork.

Matt LeMay

Six Common Traps that Undermine Strategic Product Management

Tim Herbig is a passionate Product Management Coach and Consultant, Remote Work Enthusiast, Speaker and Author. He looks back at more than nine years of product management ranging from start-ups to large-scale corporates in the publishing, social network, and b2b SaaS sector. He's also the creator of the Product Discovery Online Masterclass.

Tim Herbig

How do you Make Product Management Work Effectively in a Distributed Team?

As Director of Product Management at Optimizely, Jon Noronha is responsible for leading a team of product managers with a goal to discover new ways for companies to experiment more across websites, apps and every level of the stack. Prior to joining Optimizely, Jon coordinated engineering teams across Seattle and Beijing to rethink visual search at Microsoft. As part of Bing’s Image Search team at Microsoft, Jon developed cutting-edge technology in machine learning, distributed systems, and image processing and combined it with great design based on usability studies, constant A/B testing, and quantitative analysis. Jon has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.

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