Sunday Rewind: The importance of connection and community

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2020 post from Rosemary King that looks at the attributes of a number of different product management communities.

Mind the Product believes wholeheartedly in the strength of a diverse community, in giving lots of different voices a chance to be heard, and in enabling the sharing of ideas so that we can further the craft of product management together.

The ResearchOps Community is a global group of people who come together to discuss the operations of user research and design research. Rosemary says it’s built around the idea of deeply understanding a specific process and discussing how it can create value.

The Design for Good community allows people to connect around opportunities for tech to create social good.

Lastly, lunchclub.ai facilitates “casual conversations that lead to not-so-casual professional impact”. It’s powered by AI.

Rosemary then looks at the benefits of being part of large and small product communities. She says: “Depending on how a large community is facilitated, you might not be able to have the depth of discussion or substantial idea exchanges that a small group of people sitting around a table can have.” She also looks at the pros and cons of virtual and in-person communities and how you might go about building your own product community.

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