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Losing Weight with the Lean Startup

Following a weekend of Lean talks around London with Eric Ries, Nick Cordrey has written this guest post as an introduction to Lean for those who might still be unsure about what it involves and how to...

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Better User Stories, Come Hell or High Waterfall

As anyone who makes things for a living will attest, there comes a time perhaps once a day, when a certain question plays upon the lips of everyone on the project. If it’s a particularly trying day,...

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Guest Post Guidelines

We believe that product management is not an exact science — that each company and product-person refines their own bespoke tools and methods. Our aim with MindTheProduct is to share this broad range...

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Guest Post: Lean Product Development In A Traditional Industry

.entry blockquote p {font-style: normal !important;} This is guest post from Tom Layfield who currently works as a Product Manager at Simply Business, the UK’s largest online business insurance...

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Agile roadmapping

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay Every so often, I hear someone suggest that you can’t really build a roadmap when you’re working in Agile, because you’re only planning...

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The life and times of a Product Management Consultant …

Just over a year ago, I left a full-time position as head of product at moo.com and dove into the un-chartered waters of freelance product management work. After nearly 15 years of full-time work, my...

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Rapid prototyping the Google X way

In How to make products that people love, Marty Cagan had tons of good advice for rapid product discovery, including the importance of finding the fastest, cheapest way to validate ideas. Chief among...

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What can product managers learn from film directors?

A colleague and I were having a conversation over a pint the other day as to whether you could make the film Blade Runner using Agile processes. We concluded you could not. We thought you would need...

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Tips for managing time expectations in consulting

As a freelancer, one of the most common scenarios I’ve been asked about over the last few months is what to do when the hiring company believes they need a full-time person, but you’re only interested...

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A Framework For Evaluating Market Opportunity

How do you know whether a product idea is going to succeed if you build it and take it to market?  If you’ve ever been part of a startup, or if your organization has launched a new line of products,...

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Why Your Products’ Controls Should Have No Labels

Have you ever found instructions on the shower faucet in a hotel room?  I’ll bet you have. Here is the shower in a Sunnyvale hotel at which I recently stayed. The faucet was so complicated to use that...

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Five Ways of Becoming a Respected Product Leader in the C-Suite

Modern product management is a relatively young discipline.  There remains a lot of room for a final definition of what product management is and how it can be best organized. At the same time, it is...

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Mind the Product 2013 liveblog

Welcome to the 2013 Mind the Product conference in London. Here you’ll be able to find out what happens during the day. Intro by Mind the Product founder Martin Eriksson What is Mind the Product? It’s...

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Mind the Product 2013: How to Create Amazing Products, Exit for a Billion...

At Mind the Product 2013 you could learn how to build a billion-dollar app, think differently about the future, take risks and figure out if your company is disruptive or sustaining. No wonder the...

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Multi-Armed Bandit Testing

Multi-armed bandit testing involves a statistical problem set-up. The most-used example takes a set of slot machines and a gambler who suspects one machine pays out more or more often than the others....

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Pricing is All About Value

Pricing strategy is all about value. ‘Must-have’ capabilities are more expensive than ‘nice to have’.  So what’s the value to the client? A simple way to look at pricing is to use a three-by-three...

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Getting Value From Customer Testing

A customer testing group can provide value in a variety of situations, ranging from a gut-check to getting long term deep insight. Here’s a guide on how user testing and consultation, alongside a...

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The World is a Product

People think about what they do and the world around them being as about a process or a project. Both in everyday life and in business. And this is a problem that to my great surprise few people are...

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Why Pitching Won’t Deliver Great Products

As digital transformation continues to disrupt most industries and organisations, it is depressing to see the extension of the ‘pitch’ process to the selection of agencies and suppliers for product...

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What is a Technical Product Manager, Anyway?

What does it really mean to be a “Technical” Product Manager?  And how is it different from just a Product Manager?  In this post, I share the difference between these titles plus key Do’s and Don’t’s...

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