More segments from our conversation with Adam Warburton — and shedding some light onto just exactly what makes Adam truly The Best Product Person of 2015.
The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group. Nominate someone today!
Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2015: Adam Warburton. (tweet)
Advice…
> What is the best career advice you received as you entered product management?
Not specific to Product Management, but the best career advice I’ve had is to continue learning. I’ve continued in higher education since leaving high school, studying undergraduate degrees and assorted other courses part time in the evening and weekends. The hunger to learn means you’ll continue to push the boundaries of your own capability.
More to Come
Over the coming weeks we will be speaking with and learning more from Adam Warburton.
Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Best Product Person of 2016 has begun! The individual who first nominates TBPP is also awarded! This year, the first nominator of Adam received a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Nominate your pick for The Best Product Person right now!
http://TheBestProductPerson.com
And, don’t forget, take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2015: Adam Warburton. (tweet)
Enjoy!
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
About ‘The Best Product Person’
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The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy (http://tpgblog.com) and The Product Group (http://meetup.com/theproductgroup).
TBPP Recognizes 1 person each year, invites them to speak and share their knowledge and experience with the larger product community. The nominations can be submitted by anyone. And, if you are the first to submit the winning nominee, you too will be rewarded Over the course of the year, the various nominees are interviewed and the finalists narrowed down to: The Best Product Person of the year . The finalists are interviewed and evaluated for excellence in Product along the following lines… Becoming a Product Person, Your Product, Advice to Product People, and Future & Trends.
TBPP is both (1) the way the Product community gets together to recognize excellence amongst our ranks as well as (2) provide, to a large audience, insights into that excellence in a manner we can all learn from and leverage in our own Product journeys.
For more information about The Best Product Person award and past winners visit https://tpgblog.com/tbpp
About ‘The Product Group’
The Product Group is an opportunity for Product Managers, etc. to come together to meet, interact, and network. It’s an awesome way to meet fellow Product People in a laid-back, conversational environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer-to-peer basis. The NYC chapter of The Product Group meets the first Thursday of each month. If you are interested in a establishing chapter near you, please contact The Product Guy or The Product Group for more information. (https://tpgblog.com/theproductgroup/ )
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> Whose shoes would you like to walk in for a day? Why?
When I first at O2 as a Business Analyst I would work with the old-school style “Product Owner” to document requirements and build products. It was whilst I was a BA that I got my first break as stepping into the shoes of a product manager and loved it – knowing that I was directly responsible for the customers experience really excited me and I’ve never looked back…
Two people really stand out – one of my early bosses whilst at O2 (Ish Sidat) had an incredible eye for detail and a knack of pulling meaningful insight from vast amounts of data, which shaped and enhanced my appreciation and usage of data. My boss whilst at Walmart/Asda (Kate Cuthbertson) was without a doubt the most customer-centric person I’ve worked with. Everything Kate did was gleaned from customers, developed with customers, validated by customers and ultimately loved by customers. I was really fortunate to grow as a product manager under both their stewardship, as it has allowed me to balance the data and analytics available against being thoroughly customer centric.
