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Investing in Continuous Innovation

Anil Sagaram, Head of Product Development at BT Financial Group Innovation is the hope that businesses look towards to fuel competitive advantage. Some businesses are focussed on achieving the...

5 Lessons from Growing 5 to 40 PMs in Just 4 Years

By Maxime Prades, VP of Product Management, Algolia, The beautiful thing with Product Management is that there isn’t just one way of doing it. Your company culture, your product space, your...

When You’re the New Kid on the Block

Starting off as Product Manager as the new kid in a new gig. By: Chris Mercuri, Product Manager, SEEK Ltd I’m new to SEEK but I am in my sixth or seventh new product context, most recently...

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...