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21 Reasons Product Managers Can Make Great CEOs

A great product manager isn’t just a product manager – they’re the CEO of their product. By Dale Dixon, Head of Product at MYOB On any given day, a product manager needs to display a...

Building Great Insights Products

Building Great Insights Products at Seek - A Product Management Perspective. By: Cheryl Paulsen & Rob Veitch, SEEK. It’s been more than 5 years since ‘big data’ became part of the...

Stop failing fast, start experimenting fast

Failing fast has become a catch-cry in Product Management, but is it serving us well? In August 2017, Brainmates hosted a round table discussion with some experienced and respected Product...

Product Management terms – misused and abused

What are your pet peeves when it comes to Product Management terms? We asked a panel of Product leaders to play buzzword bingo with the Brainmates team. These are the words they nominated as...

The future of Product Management in Australia

"What's the biggest thing that's in demand right now? Even higher than data scientists, it's Product Managers. We've gone through a period of not knowing who they were, to being the most...

Top five things we learned about OKRs at the Meetup

So you've heard of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and you think they sound pretty good. Now what?! In July 2017, Product Talks Sydney, hosted a panel discussion dedicated to OKRs, and these are...

Product bookclub wrap: Scaling Lean, by Ash Maurya

Product bookclub met for the third time last Tuesday with beer, wine and beautiful antipasto (thanks Brainmates!) to talk through the themes of Ash Maurya’s Scaling Lean. Bookclub generally starts...

Transcript: OKRs Meetup

In July 2017, Product Talks Sydney held a Meetup dedicated to Objectives and Key Results. Below is the transcript from the panel discussion. The panellists are: Ian Morgan, Director Strategic...