InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Jun 27, 20178 tips for running a great product management guildBack in 2012, Spotify released a whitepaper talking about how they scaled their company. One of the ideas that they introduced was a…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Jun 20, 201723 tips for writing great one-pagersLast week, I introduced the Trade Me one-pagers, our ‘business case on a page’. The template and idea is pretty simple, but there is a lot…A response icon1A response icon1
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Jun 13, 2017An introduction to Trade Me’s ‘one-pagers’Back in 2014, Trade Me introduced the concept of a one-pager, a business-plan-on-a-page that briefly outlines a new piece of work or…A response icon1A response icon1
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Jun 7, 2017HEARRRT — Trade Me’s metrics frameworkIn my first month at Trade Me, one of my first tasks was to come up with a high-level, easy-to-understand, easy-to-apply metrics framework…A response icon1A response icon1
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·May 23, 2017The MVP is dead, long live the MVE!We talk a lot about MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) at Trade Me. I think that most of the time we are wrong — what we call MVPs aren’t MVPs…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·May 16, 2017Great product leaders have great visionToday, Trade Me is hosting its first-ever offsite for the newly minted People Leaders Group, made up of the 130-odd people who manage staff…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·May 9, 2017The History of Trade Me’s Product CouncilIn January 2014, Trade Me’s CEO invited me to lunch. Jon and I first met in 2009, when I was asked to be part of the Trade Me Revolution…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·May 2, 2017Product prioritization is simple, but not easyAt its heart, prioritizing product ideas is pretty simple — all you are doing is weighing up the benefits versus costs, which you can do in…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Apr 25, 2017Running great meetingsMeetings have a bad name. It’s fair enough, we’ve all sat through poorly run meetings where time seems to stand still, where you aren’t…
InTrade Me BlogbyTrent Mankelow·Apr 18, 2017Presenting is storytellingIn January, I asked all of Trade Me’s product managers to self-rate their experience and skill on 21 different product management-related…
