Off On to a good start! Day 2 started early for active PMs who joined a morning run led by On running shoes. Decked out in their “run on clouds” footwear, the group explored the Sihlpromenade for a pre-conference oxygen boost. (We assume they made it back…this is the pre-run picture…) …And the band played…
Since 2013, Product Management Festival (PMF) has been bringing together Product Managers from across the globe to meet, share stories and exchange ideas. This year’s two-day conference kicked off today with 1200 product managers from 55 countries and 360 companies descending upon Zurich’s Arena Cinema to hear from 70+ speakers on themes like customer delight,…
Product Management Festival (PMF) is pleased to announce its Women in Product Management in Europe 2019 List. The women on this list come from a wide range of backgrounds, but they all have a passion for product management and have excelled in their careers. From biochemists to translators to journalists, the women on this list…
Product Management Festival recently hosted the second edition of PMF APAC in Singapore at the INSEAD campus. It’s a two-day event and is an annual conference bringing product professionals and managers from different industries, across disciplines and across geographies together to learn, exchange knowledge and make an impact. I had the wonderful opportunity of attending this amazing event and…
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…