Eira Hayward

5 days ago | mindtheproduct.com | Eira Hayward

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2020 #mtpcon Digital talk from Ibrahim Bashir, then VP of Product Management at Box, on different product management archetypes and when to bring each one into a product team. Ibrahim says there are three types of product managers -  people who start the team, scaling people and sustaining people who keep everything running once the business is established. When you’ve established what kind of people you need, who do you find them?

1 week ago | mindtheproduct.com | Eira Hayward

More updates from Google Cloud, TikTok no longer the most downloaded app and Spotify boosting its non-English audiobook catalogue - here’s a roundup of some of the most interesting stories in the news this week. Google held its annual Google Cloud Next conference last week, aimed at showcasing the transformative power of AI and introducing new AI agents and the networking needed to run them, and a new protocol for AI interoperability.

1 week ago | mindtheproduct.com | Eira Hayward

It’s too easy to assume that everyone works in a commercial organisation. But what if you don’t? In the UK for example, the third sector employed about a million people last year and made a significant contribution (£18 billion) to the economy (0.8% of GDP). How is product management in a non-profit different from elsewhere? It’s all there in the name. The core mission of a non-profit isn’t to make money.

1 week ago | mindtheproduct.com | Eira Hayward

This week’s Sunday Rewind is a 2018 post from Glenn Block and Timo Hilhorst on the differences and respective merits of quantitative and qualitative data and why it’s important for product managers to gather both types. Quantitative or hard data is information that can be measured and written down with numbers. It includes surveys, application metrics and A/B tests. Qualitative or soft data is information that can’t be measured and is subjective.

2 weeks ago | mindtheproduct.com | Eira Hayward

There’s been lots of movement in the AI space this week, from Shopify's new AI memo to Anthropic's talent surge. Here’s a roundup of the news that’s caught our eye. OpenAI has unveiled an ”EU Economic Blueprint” in an effort to integrate its AI technologies within Europe's regulatory and economic landscape. The blueprint follows a similar document focused on the US and published in January. The blueprint has four main pillars, and a set of specific proposals and infrastructure goals.