Ash Wahi has led product teams that manage many of the largest service platforms. Unlike other consumer products, the customer expectations and MVP requirements for platform products are completely different. As Ash explains, it’s important to align your customer’s needs with your business focus and always to be mindful of who’s in charge.

Expand the talent pool, and improve the quality of life for employees, by adopting a distributed teams style of organization.

Understanding product-market fit is critical for defining a "North Star" to set up growth products for success and reach more customers.

Ash Wahi has led product teams that manage many of the largest service platforms. Managing a platform product shares many common themes with other product management functions. However, as Ash explains, there are key differences in defining the strategy for platform products and how feedback is collected to enhance the product experience.

Communication skills and effective use of language in team building are critical for positive reinforcement and continuous learning.

The principle of empathy connects the features of growth products with customers to create value and engagement for more users.

Alignment on product design roles and priorities requires a structured approach with clear responsibilities.

The growth mindset drives effective team building to create lifelong learners who are dedicated to continuous improvement.

Product manager must balance large-scale launches with constantly adding new features to existing products in order to engage with users.

Optimize core features of mobile product design to expand your audience and drive additional product growth with new user acquisition.

Product managers must focus on the role that "villains" can play in the design thinking process to protect customers with positive intent.

Creating a memorable first impression is vital for engagement, driven by three factors that are responsible for customer retention.

Direct feedback from customers is critical for enhancing mobile product design to drive engagement and creating value for users.

Product management can lead culture changes through collaborative processes that increase transparency to make better business decisions.

Effective product management is powered by data to make better decisions finding new business opportunities and understanding customer needs.

To create well-rounded products, design thinking should involve analysis for what can happen when products are used with bad intent

Human interaction has impacted AI product design by creating new data points to optimize products and make user interfaces more intuitive.

Community engagement has enhanced AI product design to engage users with meaningful content that is powered by social connectivity.

Meghan Laffey led the product team at GoPro from its early origins to an IPO that drove massive growth for the company. It’s easy to “nerd out” on specs with innovative products like GoPro cameras. However, Meghan highlights that GoPro customers aren’t buying cameras because they’re super-technical products. Most importantly, they are buying into an aspirational lifestyle.

Meghan Laffey led the product team at GoPro from its early origins to an IPO that drove massive growth for the company. GoPro cameras turn every outdoor activity into an incredible video production that can be easily shared with millions of people. As Meghan explains, GoPro leverages various types of user-generated content to reach multiple audiences and showcase their product capabilities.

The fundamentals of product design are learned hands-on; experiences that you only get in a workshop or on the floor of a manufacturing plant.

Alex MacCallum leads the New Product and Ventures team at The New York Times – bringing new subscribers to a traditional media source with engaging content and fresh perspectives. Once a new source for growth is identified, you need to hone in on providing relevant content to users. As Alex explains, the cooking product was built on real-world observation and a comprehensive review of what people needed to prepare a meal at home.

StudioRed Founder Philip Bourgeois on the five elements for product design that are driven by what is most important in products today.

Alex MacCallum leads the New Product and Ventures team at The New York Times – bringing new subscribers to a traditional media source with engaging content and fresh perspectives. There are many ways of identifying new opportunities for growth – and Alex describes how her team landed on the topic of parenting to create a new content source for The Times.

User data is driving product design, protecting user privacy is a challenge. Effective team building makes a difference.

Kintan Brahmbhatt is a product leader with Amazon Music, pioneering innovative solutions for music lovers to listen to their favorite songs. Searching for new content used to be entirely text-based, but voice commands and audible technology have changed the game in how people search for content. Instead of using a conventional search to find music, Kintan outlines how simply asking for “the newest song” allows music lovers to find their new favorite song without knowing its title.

Unique features and designs are required for security product managers to protect us against emerging cybersecurity threats.

Modern product design must be customer-centric, team building powers a culture that connects businesses to their customers.

Managing time is key in developing a product roadmap, prioritizing your strategic bets to deliver exciting products for your customers.

Kintan Brahmbhatt is a product leader with Amazon Music, pioneering innovative solutions for music lovers to listen to their favorite songs. Balancing the needs of your customers and understanding your competition is critical to enhancing product design. As Kintan explains, it’s helpful to start by engaging your customers in the product design process – while listening intently to what’s happening in your competitive landscape.

Pragmatic Marketing Instructor Steve Gaylor shares what to expect of product managers and marketers, how to communicate and build with ease. 

Cybersecurity products impact on people's lives and business activities - including confidentiality, personal privacy and network stability.

Creating a product roadmap requires more than effective tools, you need a great team and a clear destination in order to reach your goals.

At the end of the day, research is necessary and great at identifying problems and opportunities, and guiding you in the right direction.