Mind the Product San Francisco 2019
2019-07-16
San Francisco, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Banish Your Inner Critic | Denise Jacobs | 45m |
Claim: the biggest blocker is an internal “inner critic” that actually strengthens as responsibility grows; MRI work shows the prefrontal self‑judgment area… | ||
| Helping Product Managers to Let Go | Michael Sippey | 25m |
Argues that product teams succeed when PMs force choices by removing vague priorities and practicing clear tradeoffs, with one concrete meeting hack: replace… | ||
| Platform Management | Brandon Chu | 27m |
Shopify runs a 200‑person platform team that builds developer portal APIs and UI extensions plus an app store and recommendation algorithms; platform powers… | ||
| Be a Director, not a Manager | Fareed Mosavat | 19m |
Argues that product leaders should act like film directors, not managers, and gives three concrete practices learned at Pixar: tell a memorable product story… | ||
| You Don't Own the Voice of the Customer | Tricia Wang | 31m |
Claim: no one function owns the voice of the customer and most teams fall into me-centered design instead of true user-centered work. Concrete fixes: invite a… | ||
| How to Influence the Business | David J Bland | 21m |
Product managers apply the desirability/viability/feasibility lens to the whole business model canvas, not just the UI, and start experiments by start with… | ||
| Great User Research for Non Researchers | Steve Portigal | 28m |
Practical rules for non‑researchers: start by plan business question vs research objective vs participant question so the work drives decisions; prefer… | ||
| Product, Society, and Ethics | Kathy Pham | 28m |
Begins by tracing a coder’s path from a Pascal cash register to capacity planning at a search engine and a 2009 open-source sentiment analysis (Twitter), then… | ||
| Using Research in Material Design | Elizabeth F. Churchill | 34m |
Material Design sets out concrete results: a 2016 component study tests text fields with 144 conditions across thousands of participants using mixed methods… | ||
| Justify Your Product Decisions and get Stakeholder Buy in | Teresa Torres | 32m |
Argues that product teams win by showing their work not just defending a feature, using the Opportunity Solution Tree to map customer opportunities, candidate… | ||
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