Making magic with balanced teams by Becki Hyde

In this ProductTank Louisville talk, Becki Hyde, senior product manager and leadership advisor at VMWare Tanzu Labs, explains some of the problems that many teams working in the tech industry face. She tells some stories about the issues she faced and then provides a framework for working in balanced teams. The key points of her [...] Read more » The...

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How to motivate a product team

A motivated team is a happy team. A happy team is more creative, provides better solutions, and to top it off, it’s also more productive. In today’s post, I would like to introduce some techniques and ideas that I have been refining over the last 20 years focused on motivating product teams. Embark them on [...] Read more » The post How to motivate...

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Getting to the bottom line of valuation – Giff Constable

Understanding your company’s business model is a key skill for all product people, but understanding how that affects your valuation is what takes things to the next level.  What are you maximizing for and how does your pricing model impact that? We talked with Giff Constable, ex-chief product officer at Meetup, about all this—and much [...] Read more »...

2d

The influence of psychological safety on product management

Psychological safety has recently become one of the buzzwords in many workplaces. Many leaders might understand its importance but they often misunderstand what exactly it means and how to establish it. Missing psychological safety in a product-led organization will diminish innovational strength, meaning either missed economic opportunities or even...

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Scaling product teams for fun and profit by Claire Vo

Whether you’re going from 0 to 1, 2 to 10, or 50 to 100 it can be disorienting when your team size multiplies and product lines scale. In this #mtpcon Digital Americas keynote, Claire Vo CPO at Color, former CPO at Optimizely covers the skills, processes, and non-negotiables to rely on as your product org grows [...] Read more » The post Scaling product...

4d

SUNDAY REWIND: Reboot your team by Christina Wodtke

You know what they say, teamwork makes the dream work but for that to be the case, you need a team that’s working well together. In this Sunday Rewind, we go back to 2018 and Christina Wodtke’s San Francisco talk about how to reboot the team you have or build a healthy one from the [...] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Reboot your team by Christina...

5d

The importance of EQ for product development teams by Nikkia Reveillac

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas keynote, Nikkia Reveillac, Former Head of Research, Twitter looks at why EQ is the key ingredient in the highest performing product development teams. Watch the video to see Nikkia’s talk in full (Mind the Product members can also watch the recordings of all our #mtpcon Digital Americas talks here). Or read [...] Read more »...

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What we learned at #mtpcon Digital Americas: Day 2

Day one at #mtpcon Digital Americas was a difficult act to follow. However, today we saw even more inspiring and engaging speakers with topics ranging from product inclusion, product experiment, and developing a collaborative culture. Throughout the day we even had a bit of spare time for yoga and chit-chat in the breakout sessions. Here [...] Read more »...

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What we learned at #mtpcon Digital Americas: Day 1

Today at #mtpcon Digital Americas we learned a lot. Certainly too much to squeeze into this little post. But, as sharing is caring, we’ve plucked a few nuggets of wisdom to share with you as day one of our latest product conference comes to a close. 1. A lack of EQ is bad news In our [...] Read more » The post What we learned at #mtpcon Digital Americas:...

2w

Creating for creators – Peter Yang

We all know that solving your customer’s problem – in a way that’s feasible, viable and usable – is the key to a product’s success.  (Or one of them, anyway!) Inherent in that is clearly understanding your users, and their problems.  We talked with Peter Yang, product lead at Reddit, about understanding the needs and [...] Read more » The post Creating...

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