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Created 11 years ago in Product & Design / Product Management

I'm passionate about product and I spend most of my time building my own products (most notably ProdPad) and a global community of brilliant product managers via Mind the Product.
Over the years, I've mentored, trained and guided hundreds of startups and product people. I'm happy to share with you some of this knowledge, or answer any questions you might have on how to improve your own product or product development processes.
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Janna Bastow
London, UK
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Talk to me about product. I'm the co-founder of ProdPad, building product management software, and the co-founder of Mind the Product, the global community for product managers, including the ProductTank and MTPcon events. I teach, mentor and guide startups and product teams on how to build great products for less.
Reviews (27)
Janna led three product workshops for our business, gently facilitating open, engaging conversations while also ensuring we achieved both compelling and realistic outputs. Her professional but approachable style encouraged active involvement from all participants.
Source: LinkedIn Fiona Rigby Mar 24, 2014I asked Janna 2 facilitate 3 sessions to capture a new product vision. She came prepared with good templates and adjusted her sessions to adapt to our needs. We got the result we wanted and enjoyed the process.
Source: LinkedIn Alex Charles Mar 24, 2014Janna took us through three enjoyable and well facilitated sessions on an evolution of our product vision.
Source: LinkedIn Steve Patterson Mar 24, 2014Janna is possibly one of the most enthusiastic people I've worked with; she has a very positive attitude and throws herself into her work. Janna's technical knowledge gives her a great understanding of how software comes together, it's fun and refreshing to work with a product person who can talk on the level of both managers and developers!
Source: LinkedIn Rowan Manning Mar 24, 2014Working with Janna is an exceptional privilege for those who work on online products. She fantastically represents the enthusiastic and limitlessly creative workforce, and her drive and tempo is pretty contagious. Just sit down and have a 5 minute discussion, you will understand everything. Janna has a great sense of handling incredibly complex processes and see the big picture from the very beginning. She is a great person to work with and I am proud that our professional paths have crossed.
Source: LinkedIn Aaron Kato Mar 24, 2014Janna has tremendous focus and an ability to commit to a vision with immense level of determination.
In addition to an understanding of web development, product management and agile processes she is a strong networker able to bring people together. Evidence of the latter is the product camp conferences she operates.
Source: LinkedIn Dave Martin Mar 24, 2014Janna's passion for product motivates everyone that works with her. She can form and organise ideas and concepts into coherent features - a skill hard to find.
Janna has played a huge part in getting BraveNewTalent to where it is now and we would have been lost with out her hard work and dedication.
Source: LinkedIn Linus Norton Mar 24, 2014Janna is a multi-tasking, tech-savvy, energetic product manager and I had a great time working with her for almost 2 years. Her work helped bring BraveNewTalent where it is today and left a great legacy for the future. I'm sure ProdPad and any other endeavour she puts her mind to will be a success.
Source: LinkedIn Ramon Pedrollo Bez Mar 24, 2014Janna is determined, affable, and very hard working. Her enthusiasm for product is contagious. Software like prodPad and events like Product Camp bear the mark of her dedication to creating a great experience for all who encounter her work.
Source: LinkedIn Robert Peake Mar 24, 2014Janna was a pleasure to work with. Able to deploy powerful communication skills to channel her infectious passion for product, she combines formidable professional knowledge with a genuine and approachable style.
Source: LinkedIn Simon Hammond Mar 24, 2014the startups.com platform
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