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Using Psychology to Supercharge Your Products

In this #mtpcon London talk, Joe Leech shows us how, in order to design products that people love, we need to create experiences that fit into what people’s existing mental models predict for them.
Design axioms and shredded wheat
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

Understand the Two Very Different Interpretations of JTBD

The popularity of Jobs to be Done has exploded in recent years but there are two wildly varying interpretations of the theory that contradict each other and confuse things - and only one of them breaks new ground.
Jobs-As-Progress vs Jobs-As-Activities
[JTBD INFO]
 

The Product Triad: Great _______ Help their Teammates Do their Best Work

At Google, to encourage teamwork, they emphasize the product triad: UX, Product and Engineering, because all three are essential to the development of a product.
Balancing responsibility across multiple roles
[UXPLANET]
 

Lessons Learned as a First-Time Startup Product Manager

Being a product manager is hard. You have to lead without authority, wear multiple hats, and take blame for (almost) everything. But you know what’s even harder? Being a product manager at a startup.
Everything is ugly and messy, embrace it
[MEDIUM]
 

Join us at the Best Product Conference in AsiaPac

Experience insight and inspiration at #mtpcon Singapore in March 2019 - learn from world-renowned speakers, join your product tribe, and attend hands-on workshops from expert product managers!
First speakers will be announced soon: Secure your place!
 

A Deep Dive into Product Management Career Levels

As a company grows, it becomes critically important to give your employees visibility into where they stand, what they need to focus on improving, what’s coming next for them, and what the company is doing and why. In other words, people need clarity and context, both about their own roles and how they fit into the bigger picture.
Clarifying product career progression
[LINKEDIN]
 
Product management job titles and hierarchy
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

The Product Management Talent Dilemma

Despite product managers’ central roles in software organizations, they are often neglected from a talent-management perspective. Four levers can address this industry-wide challenge.
When McKinsey gets it...
[MCKINSEY]
 

Why We Fail: Lessons from Netflix’s Social Strategy

Gibson Biddle shares how challenging it is to blend art and science, to effectively capture “lightning in a bottle” by sharing lessons learned from Netflix's Friends - it's failed social strategy.
Inventing the future is hard
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

Building for Everyone: How to Make Accessible Products

More than one billion people worldwide live with a disability – that’s more than 15% of the global population. Without assistive technologies like screen readers, the web is inaccessible or hard for them to use.
How not to exclude 1 billion people from your product
[INTERCOM]
 

Featured Product Jobs


Product Manager - Site Optimization
Choice Hotels, Phoenix 🇺🇸

Product Manager
Ready 2 Order, Vienna 🇦🇹

Growth Product Manager
Farewill, London 🇬🇧

Looking for your next challenge? Check out 100+ product and UX jobs on our job board, from San Francisco to London to Shanghai - and everywhere in between!

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Upcoming Events


10 Dec  ProductTank Bern 🇨🇭
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16-18 Jan  Product Management and Metrics & Analytics workshops in Amsterdam, Austin, Belfast, Boston, Dallas, London, Seattle, and Toronto

5-7 Feb  Product management workshops in Dublin and San Francisco and pre-conference workshops in Manchester on everything from product foundations to product psychology

25 Mar Pre-conference workshops in Singapore on product foundations, rapid experimentation, roadmapping, and more!

See all upcoming events on mindtheproduct.com/events
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