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Why product managers are getting fired – Dave Wascha (CPTO and Advisor)

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The key principles of PLG: Leah Tharin at #mtpcon London 2025 (Product Advisor)

B2B product management

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)

Building Product Teams

Business Strategy

Data Driven Product Management

Digital Transformation

Diversity and Inclusion

Minimum Viable Product

OKRs

Prioritisation

Product Design

Product Research

Product Development Process

Product Ethics

Product Discovery

Product Leadership

Product Management Career

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Three unconventional ways to be a better product manager 

What product leaders can learn from mergers and acquisitions – Vincent Jong (CPO, Dealfront)

Inside Amex’s mobile app redesign – Jose Quesada at #mtpcon London 2025 (VP Product, Amex)

Breaking into product management: A practical guide for aspiring product professionals

The best resources for product managers in 2025

I've been in the digital industry for over 10 years and have worked across small and large charities, as well as my own freelance projects. I am now Director of Digital at the sector leading creative agency William Joseph. 

Having been at Cancer Research UK for the last four years, I have been able to work on high volume, high profile campaigns such as Race for Life, Dryathlon and the much-quoted #nomakeupselfie. 

In that time I helped drive forward the charity’s digital product and marketing capabilities to be some of the most respected and successful in the sector. 

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James Gadsby Peet

<p>In this #mtpcon London talk, Joe Leech shows us how, in order to design products that people love, we need to create experiences that fit into what people’s existing mental models predict for them.</p>
<h2>Procedural Knowledge</h2>
<p>Declarative knowledge is specific facts that we find hard to remember. Because facts are hard to remember, we convert information into sequences, and this is known as procedural knowledge. It’s the difference between remembering a PIN on an iPhone and drawing a pattern on an Android unlock screen. In procedural knowledge, the first step reminds us of the second and so on. It’s much easier for our brains to cope with.</p>
<p>When designing products, it&#8217;s therefore critical that we don’t remove steps that people expect in their sequences. These design axioms are propositions which are regarded as being established and accepted. They are present across all types of digital products and include the homepage link on a logo, search bars, and shopping carts.</p>
<p>By helping to start procedural flows for users, we can drive them to the actions that are important to our products. Interactions which allow people to book a hotel experience are not the place to innovate. You want to use as many design axioms to make the solution as simple as possible to people your users.</p>
<h2>Psychology to Innovate</h2>
<p>People hate change, because it means breaking patterns of behaviour that they rely upon. Existing users normally hate improvements to a site they hold dear, even if they are better for new users. This vocal minority can cause genuine issues for organisations and needs to be addressed if you’re making changes. The best way to implement changes is through slow and gradual iterations.</p>
<p>If you can understand your users’ mental models, you can create new products that fit in with the ways they see the world.</p>
<p>When someone books a holiday, they plan according to the amount of time it will take them to get there, as well as many other factors. They say “Let’s go to the beach, fly, max three hours on the first or third week of May”. Unfortunately many travel booking sites don’t structure their searches this way &#8211; and so they fail to meet the mental models of their users. In this situation, a feature that shows maps with beaches three hours away would revolutionise users’ interaction with travel sites. This is true innovation, that relies on user insight to be effective.</p>
<p>As product managers, we need to understand the psychological steps that people go through, if we are going to build products that people truly love and use.</p>

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What good product design looks like – Miguel Fernandez (VP of Product Design, Slack)

10x Product X Design: Product and research team collaboration by Jane Austin

Learnings from London: What is it like to hold Google in your hand?

Learnings from London: How to build a billion dollar app

Product Systems: How to manufacture lightning in a bottle by Oji Udezue

Product management meets UX design by Tanmay Goel, Emi Kwon, Simran Kaur

Designing a sustainable future by Leyla Acaroglu

Making Hard Product Decisions for All the Right Reasons

Product Vision 2020

The Importance of Empathy, By Jack Sheppard

Using Psychology to Supercharge Your Products by Joe Leech

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