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Domain expert or practice expert: Your product management career
What sort of product expert do you want to be? In the first of a regular series, Mind the Product’s own Emily Tate offers some insights for product people pondering their career choices One of the most common questions I get when talking to product managers about their career path is, should I become an expert in a specific domain? Should I go deep into AI, or FinTech, or travel? Or should I try to work in different types of companies?
A well-rounded personal growth plan
When it comes to personal development, you can definitely grow just by doing your day-to-day work and getting experience. But if you really want to accelerate your growth, adding in a few other elements can help transform your practices much faster than you could on your own. “Why do you spend time hosting meetups, or speaking at conferences? What real benefit does any of that give you or your company?
Mind the Product: Surviving 2020
We know that people enjoy product case studies and like learning about what other teams have been through, but it can be hard to find people willing to share. This is because real life often looks very different from the polished think pieces and frameworks that you see in most articles. But the truth is, even when you know how things should operate in an ideal world, you often have to work through less-than-ideal situations.
The importance of metrics maturity for evidence-driven teams
Everyone wants to be in an evidence-driven team, using research and data to drive their product decisions. We all know it’s the best way to work, but what does it mean in practice? How can you tell if your team is truly evidence-driven? And if it’s not, how do you change things for the better? Teams may think they’re evidence-driven because they track metrics, or they run experiments, or they state goals in terms of outcomes rather than outputs.
When Innovation Programs Fail by Brant Cooper
When Innovation Programs Fail by Brant Cooper "Product people - Product managers, product designers, UX designers, UX researchers, Business analysts, developers, makers & entrepreneurs September 09 2018 True #mtpcon, Entrepreneur, horizon planning, Innovation, Mind the Product San Francisco 2018, new horizon framework, Product Development, Product management, Mind the Product Mind the Product Ltd 1303 Product Management 5.212...
First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay
First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay "Product people - Product managers, product designers, UX designers, UX researchers, Business analysts, developers, makers & entrepreneurs September 09 2018 True Ethics, Mariah Hay, Pluralsight, Mind the Product Mind the Product Ltd 1165 Product Management 4.66 https://www.mindtheproduct.com/first-do-no-harm-by-mariah-hay/ Product managers are problem finders and problem solvers. But what happens when we become problem creators?
Roadmaps are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps! by C. Todd Lombardo
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Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt
At #mtpcon San Francisco, Leisa Reichelt, head of research and insights at Atlassian, took on our current approach to user research and how we take an evidence-based approach to doing completely the wrong thing. Five years ago, the industry was focused on just getting people to do any user research. Product managers weren’t regularly talking to customers at all. These days, the drive for companies to be “customer obsessed” has brought about a new era where everyone is talking to customers.
Cognitive Biases & The Questions you Shouldn’t be Asking by Cindy Alvarez
No one is immune to cognitive biases. Cindy Alvarez, Principle Researcher at Microsoft and Author of Lean Customer Development wants us to recognize this fact. Because while we can’t avoid bias altogether, she has some advice for us on how to work around bias and reduce the impact it has in our research. Our brains are not very good at making nuanced decisions. So cognitive bias creeps in and impacts the questions we ask, what people tell us in response, and how we interpret what we have heard.
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