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Mind the Product's weekly newsletter for product people

Digital Transformation Requires Product Management

Digital transformation isn’t an IT project stuck in a cost centre or in an innovation lab. It has to reflect the existing company brand, values, and people while also refocusing the business on building continuous processes for discovering new ways to solve customer problems and deliver value.
Fund teams, not projects
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

The Netflix Decision Making Model Is Why They're So Successful

Netflix encourages its employees to “make wise decisions despite ambiguity.” The company empowers its team members not only to make the decision but to do so “based on the long-term, not near term.”
First principle thinking
[FORBES]
 

One Experiment A Week

Josh Seiden shares two simple rules to keep in mind as you seek to increase the agility and effectiveness of your organization.
When your colleagues are your customers
[MEDIUM]
 

Are You Doing OKRs right?

Braden Kowitz and Ken Norton go deep on one of Ken’s area of expertise: How to set great OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for your team.
Focused, ambitious, and measurable
[RANGE]
 

See John Maeda Speak in Singapore

Join us at #mtpcon Singapore to see the Head of Design and Inclusion at Automattic (the company behind Wordpress) and advisor to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He has also been a Professor at the MIT Media Lab for 12 years, the President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and loves exploring the area where business, design, and technology merge.
Check out the rest of our amazing lineup and join us in Singapore in March!
 

3 Reasons Product Managers Don’t Get Promoted

It’s annual review period for many companies and a lot of people are now thinking about their promotion. Here are the top 3 reasons why really good product managers fail to get promoted.
Career challenges and how to overcome them
[MEDIUM]
 

Want to be a Product Manager? Just Get Out There and Make Products

Theory, curiosity, and commitment to learning are all good signs in a future product manager, but how can you stand out and make yourself appealing to employers? Shaun Russell's advice is simple: make your own products!
Faced with challenging constraints, product managers find a way
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

Too Many Product Managers

Ken Norton joins our podcast to discuss a new challenge: the idea that some startups are hiring too many product managers
"You really can’t solve organisational problems by hiring more people"
[MIND THE PRODUCT]
 

Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input

An open letter from Rich Mironov to the many CEOs who think that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need, and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities.
A primary contributor to product strategy gridlock.
[MIRONOV]
 

Featured Product Jobs


Product Manager, Local Business Products
Yelp, Hamburg

Product Manager
Spear Education, Scottsdale

Senior Product Manager
Venn, New York

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Upcoming ProductTank Meetups


12 Feb  ProductTank Waterloo
12 Feb  ProductTank San Diego
12 Feb  ProductTank Seattle
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14 Feb  ProductTank Karlsruhe
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19 Feb  ProductTank Singapore
20 Feb  ProductTank London
20 Feb  ProductTank Bratislava
21 Feb  ProductTank Cracow
21 Feb  ProductTank Victoria
22 Feb  ProductTank Lviv
23 Feb  ProductTank Odessa

 

Upcoming Workshops


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

21-29 Mar Product management and product metrics in Amsterdam, Austin, Belfast, Boston, Dallas, Dublin, London, Manchester, New York, and Toronto

25 Apr Product Management Foundations in San Francisco

 

Upcoming Conferences


25-26 March  #mtpcon Singapore
22-24 May   #mtpengage Hamburg
15-16 July  #mtpcon San Francisco
17-18 October  #mtpcon London


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