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Michael Smith is Chief Product Officer of Prodigy Finance and a speaker for Product Management Festival 2018. With a background in engineering, product management, and acting and directing, Michael shares his lessons learned, both the good and the bad, from his career transitions and time on and off the stage. Our readers like to see…
We have compiled a list of experienced product management professionals with a track record for success — and they are all women. With backgrounds in engineering, marketing and business, some of them are also founders of their own companies. Spread across the Asia and Pacific region, they not only have day jobs in product management, but also…
Every now and then, it’s interesting to ask: What does a Product Manager (PM) do? The answer of course has some take on: They juggle managing products and people. They need to have technical/processual skills as well as those lauded, but ever elusive, leadership skills. On the people front, there are potential challenges working with…
We have some very special news: Product Management Festival is coming to Singapore. We started the conference in 2013, and over the last 5 years thousands of people have visited wonderful Switzerland and we had the honour of having them as guests during Product Management Festival. This year the time has come to become guests…
The March PMF Connect Session is on “Rolling out Massive Product Changes, at Scale.” The guest host will be Dave Meyer, Senior Product Manager at Atlassian. In each PMF Connect session, the guest speaker will open with a few highlights on their respective topic and then open it to the audience for questions. This is the…
Chris Long, Product Growth Lead, shared his experience leading the product growth team at Shopify. His team and the product teams worked very closely together. The distinction between product growth managers and product managers are that the former focus on how to get more people to use the products. The latter focus on building more…
Update 28 February 2018: Missed the webinar? The recording is now available. Hear Noah Askin, Professor of Organisation Behaviour & Director of INSEAD’s Product Management Executive Programme, speak about the growing role and prominence of product management within companies and how product managers will need new skills to take their seats at the leadership table.…
Our February PMF Connect Session is on “Challenges of Implementing a Product Growth Strategy” with PMF 2017 speaker Chris Long on Thursday, 15 February 17:00 CET. In each PMF Connect session, the guest speaker will open with a few highlights on their respective topic and then open it to the audience for questions. This is the…
Music lovers will likely know Spotify, a music streaming service that has become famous for curating tunes based on its users’ preferences. Back in 2013, Spotify had a personalised news feed called Discover that gathered together artists, album reviews, new releases, recommendations and playlists in a tile display. But its software engineers noticed that users…
Session recap: An effective decision-making process can really impact a team. And as product managers, where we ultimately become facilitators, it is critical that we can get decisions made, and with buy-in. Nabil Naghdy, COO of status.im and previously Product Manager for Google Flights, provided his thoughts and tips on how decision-making processes can be…