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OKRs for Product Management

As November begins, it's a great time to start the planning process for the next year. When you reflect on this year past, are you thinking about your successful accomplishments? Or are you...

Scaling Start-Ups with Product Management

Scaling is the Holy Grail for most start-ups. From the heady rush of launch to securing investors, scaling is the principle that underpins start-up business the world over. So how do you scale...

Australia’s leading Product Management conference: a feast for all seasons

The countdown is on – just four weeks until Leading the Product conference in Melbourne and just five weeks until Sydney! This is the fourth year of our conference by Product Managers, for...

Product Management is on the up-and-up – why now?

Product Management has been around for as long as there have been companies selling products, but Product Management is on the rise. Product Managers are in short supply – named as one of just...

Product Bookclub #8 | Marty Cagan, Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Another great evening at Product Book Club last week, when we got together to discuss Marty Cagan’s revised classic Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. Thanks Julian for...

What is Product Management, exactly?

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business...

Hypotheticals in Product Management Meetup: Abridged Transcript

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the "hypotheticals" format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on...

How to structure Product Management, according to Rich Mironov

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing...