Whether you are looking to advance in your current organization, or prepare for the future of work, this session provides practical tools and strategies you can implement immediately.

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with several different teams. Through all of those experiences, I learned that there are no best practices, but there are a few techniques that I’ve found helpful in just about every situation to figure out the best way to work with any given …

This tutorial includes a set of discovery techniques from the worlds of business analysis and product management.

This session introduces example mapping, a technique that helps you structure your conversations and build a shared understanding.

A couple of weeks ago, I shared my favorite decision making guide – the decision filter. That tool is particularly helpful when you’re trying to decide what to build, and how to build it. It’s not so helpful when you’re deep in the throes of developing and delivering part of your solution and the crap …

This talk introduces the product model, describes “product people” and explains the relevance for business analysts.

A description of the internal product lifecycle - the journey your product takes from idea through to your product’s retirement.

The business analyst title has an identity problem. If you ask 10 business analysts from 10 different companies you’re likely to get a few (up to 10) different descriptions of what they do on a day to day basis. You may hear things such as: Identifying business process changes Eliciting requirements for custom software development …

When I decided InsideProduct should focus on the trials and tribulations that come from working on internal products, I figured I should probably try to get into the heads of the people most directly affected. One group of those people are CIO’s those sometime members of the C- Suite who have struggled over the last …

When I meet folks who work on internal products, I often ask “What product do you work on?” I’ve also used that question in workshops to get a feel for the backgrounds and experience of the participants. I frequently get puzzled looks in response to that question and thanks to some feedback from Adrian Reed, …

A presentation exploring the perspective and skills necessary to successfully move from business analysis to product ownership.

In a perfect product world, you’d know the outcome you’re trying to reach, and you’d have a clear metric to guide your decisions to get there. At least that’s what countless product management articles would lead you to believe. Most of my experience has been in a not-so perfect product world – perhaps a big …

A refinement board is a way for your team to visualize your backlog refinement workflow and represent your steps to refine backlog items

Last week I shared some tips for maintaining a manageable backlog, I made the following comment about describing “big” backlog items And ideally, you’d describe those items as problems to solve. Depending on your context, that may be easier said than done, which is a typic that deserves it’s own article (coming soon). As promised, …

#mtpcon London returned to the Barbican centre this year, and boy were we excited to be back. Dive into our key takeaways from product leaders like Ebi Atawodi, Matt LeMay, and Leah Tharin, alongside fresh perspectives from rising stars like Rebecca Mortimer, Nadine Matthews, and more!

This year’s report analyzes insights from nearly 400 product professionals worldwide to deliver the most current data on product management practices, challenges, and opportunities.

Solving one of the biggest anxieties that conference-goers typically have, INDUSTRY attendees receive INDUSTRY Notes. These are a comprehensive set of notes for every session emailed to you immediately after the event. It even incl

The New York Product Conference provides attendees with Notes. These are a comprehensive set of notes for every session, including summarized Key Points so that you can be fully prepared for that presentation to your boss when you get back to work.

ProductPlan's ninth annual report is a data-backed exploration of how product professionals make smarter decisions and deliver on product vision and strategy. The report is based on a survey of over 1400 product people conducted in Q4 2023.-

There’s a phase early in most product people’s careers where they hear “go interview users\customers” and they think “ok, I’ll ask them what they want.” Hopefully, that is a temporary phase. You should talk to your users and customers (current or…