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Product Management

Sunday Rewind: Whose job is it anyway? The rise of Product Ops and why it deserves to be an independent function

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Creating metrics that matter

B2B product management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Building Product Teams

Business Strategy

Data Driven Product Management

Digital Transformation

Diversity and Inclusion

Minimum Viable Product

OKRs

Prioritisation

Product Design

Product Research

Product Development Process

Product Ethics

Product Discovery

Product Leadership

Product Management Career

Product Strategy

Stakeholder Management

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Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O'Reilly, 2017).

Martin Eriksson

<a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mtpsf-full-auditorium-large-cyan.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8082" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mtpsf-full-auditorium-large-cyan-300x200.jpg" alt="Product Management Community" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mtpsf-full-auditorium-large-cyan-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mtpsf-full-auditorium-large-cyan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mtpsf-full-auditorium-large-cyan.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Today marks Mind the Product&#8217;s 5th anniversary, and what an incredible 5 years it&#8217;s been.
When we started our meetup <a href="http://www.producttank.com" target="_blank">ProductTank</a>, we did it because our jobs as product managers in startups were a little lonely. There wasn&#8217;t anyone to learn from, share lessons with, or frankly, to bitch to. We started Mind the Product a year later to continue the conversations happening at those early meetups online, and our <a href="http://mtpcon.com/" target="_blank">#mtpcon</a> conference the year after that to raise the level of the conversation.
Well 5 years later and product management is certainly a lot less lonely.
ProductTank now brings together over 20,000 passionate product managers in <a href="http://www.producttank.com" target="_blank">over 55 cities</a> around the world. Our annual conferences in <a href="http://mtpcon.com/london" target="_blank">London</a> and <a href="http://mtpcon.com/sf" target="_blank">San Francisco</a> gather over 1,000 attendees each from all over the world.
Every month we launch ProductTank in 5 more cities. Every month dozens of those cities meet up and have a conversation about product.
And every day our <a href="http://slack.mindtheproduct.com" target="_blank">Slack channel</a> has over 1,300 members chatting about all things product.
<a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTP-crowd.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTP-crowd-300x240.jpg" alt="Smiling attendees of Mind The Product SF" width="300" height="240" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8005" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTP-crowd-300x240.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTP-crowd.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>It&#8217;s been amazing to see this groundswell of community come together, and it&#8217;s all thanks to the passion of hundreds of organizers around the world who have taken our idea and run with it. And, of course, above all else it&#8217;s thanks to all the product people in our community who come together online and in person to learn and to share their own experiences.
These are of course all vanity metrics, but with one undeniable conclusion: Product Management is growing, and we all need each other&#8217;s help to make sense of this complicated, challenging, frustrating, and amazing job. Together we are building and promoting an ever deeper understanding of the role and it&#8217;s opportunities (and challenges). As companies start to understand the importance of building a product and user focus into their very cores, we&#8217;re seeing bigger product teams, with healthier ratios between product and engineering, and we&#8217;re seeing more and more product people take their seat in the c-suite.
All of this simply underlines <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/about/the-mind-the-product-manifesto/" target="_blank">the Mind the Product manifesto</a>, and emphasises our reason for starting and building this awesome community: to further the craft of product management by bringing together product people of all stripes.
On that journey, we&#8217;re just getting started. Join us for the next 5 years (and more!) as we continue to grow and develop this amazing community, as we continue to focus on learning, sharing, and inspiring each other to build better products &#8211; products people love.

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It’s the Strategy, stupid – Andrew Martinez-Fonts (VP Product, Honeysales)

LLM workflows for product managers: 3 key takeaways (Niloufar Salehi, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley) – ProductTank SF

How to survive the next phase of tech – Jonty Sharples (Product and Strategy Consultant)

Transformed: Moving to the product model by Marty Cagan

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Berlin

AI in practice at Berlin’s leading companies – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Berlin

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: Amsterdam

Product teams in flux – Pendomonium+#mtpcon roadshow: London

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5 Years of Building an Awesome Product Management Community

Martin Eriksson

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