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Olegs Belousovs
Product Management

With almost two decades of experience in product management and technology, primarily within the marketplace (Bakeca.it), financial services (Oval Money), and online price comparison (Facile.it) sectors, I’ve honed my skills as a front-end engineer, UX designer and product manager. This diverse background equips me to lead product teams empathetically and navigate complex challenges.

Specializing in Agile Methodologies, I excel at managing complex digital products and fostering a collaborative environment. My preference for multidisciplinary teams ensures a silo-free approach and drives innovation. I believe in leading by example, empowering teams with autonomy, and making data-informed decisions that align with company goals and customer needs.

Passionate about leveraging emerging technologies, I’m committed to delivering products that anticipate customer needs. My “build, measure, learn” mindset fuels a culture of experimentation and creativity while maintaining a clear focus on the vision.

Beyond my professional pursuits, I’m an active member of the Web Community, attending tech conferences and contributing to open-source initiatives. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, travelling, photography, vinyl collecting, and staying informed through paper books. I’m a strong advocate for Open Culture, valuing trust, transparency, and collaboration

The Events and Conferences I Attended

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  • TEDxCrocetta – “Embrace The Challenge” – 29 November, Turin, Italy
  • Volontariato al WPDay – 13 November, Pordenone, Italy
  • WordCamp Europe 2015 – 26-28 June, Seville, Spain

I often attend local Meetups, Creative Mornings Turin and other tech and design events in various Turin communities.

The Books I Read

Favourite Books

  1. Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think – Dave Gray
  2. Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
  3. Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
  4. Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products
  5. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
  6. Rework
  7. Remote: Office Not Required
  8. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
  9. Laws of UX
  10. Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
  11. User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
  12. You Have Too Much Shit
  13. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
  14. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
  15. Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
  16. Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (99U Book 2)
  17. Make Your Mark
  18. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
  19. Going Responsive
  20. Sass for Web Designers
  21. Demystifying Public Speaking
  22. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love – Marty Cagan
  23. Atomic Design
  24. Resilient Web Design
  25. Intercom on Product Management
  26. Intercom On Starting Up
  27. A Pocket Guide Building a device lab
  28. Design for Real Life
  29. Resilient Management
  30. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
  31. Material World: A Global Family Portrait
  32. Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban – Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
  33. Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
  34. How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together
  35. La guerra nel team: Racconto sulle 5 disfunzioni del lavoro di squadra
  36. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)
  37. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
  38. Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
  39. Reinventing Organizations: An Illustrated Invitation to Join the Conversation on Next-Stage Organizations
  40. This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox
  41. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
  42. Understanding Privacy
  43. You’re My Favorite Client
  44. Just Enough Research
  45. Design Is a Job
  46. Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty
  47. Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
  48. Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects
  49. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
  50. Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

Mixed Books

  1. A Pocket Guide to Front-End Style Guides
  2. Surviving Change at Work
  3. Lizard Optimization: Unlock Product Growth By Engaging Long-Tail Users
  4. Everyday Information Architecture
  5. The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter: Volume 1
  6. Flexible Typesetting
  7. Going Offline
  8. Walden
  9. Le 7 regole per avere successo
  10. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  11. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
  12. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves – Dan Ariely
  13. The Second World War: A Complete History – Martin Gilbert
  14. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces
  15. Edward Burtynsky. L’uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre.
  16. Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World
  17. Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology
  18. Conversational Design
  19. Team Mastery: From Good to Great Agile Teamwork
  20. Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri). Introduzione alla comunicazione nonviolenta
  21. The Strategy Activation Playbook
  22. The New CSS Layout
  23. Let my people go surfing. La filosofia di un imprenditore ribelle
  24. L’arte della guerra
  25. Crescere i bambini con la Comunicazione Nonviolenta
  26. Authentic communication. The practice of honest and careful communication – Alexei Ivanov, Sveta Shedina
  27. The Ameriguns – Gabriele Galimberti
  28. Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
  29. Responsible JavaScript
  30. SEO For Everyone
  31. Better Onboarding
  32. Sustainable Web Design
  33. Progressive Web Apps
  34. Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  35. Costituzione Italiana
  36. Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
  37. Product-Led Onboarding: How to Turn New Users Into Lifelong Customers (ProductLed Library Book 3)
  38. Epic Alignment
  39. Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills
  40. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – Simon Sinek
  41. HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands
  42. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
  43. Hieronymus Bosch: L’opera completa
  44. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  45. Made in Dance, 1991-1999
  46. Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth
  47. Accessibility for Everyone
  48. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
  49. Scandinavian Style at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide
  50. The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership
  51. L’unica regola è che non ci sono regole: Netflix e la cultura della reinvenzione
  52. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard P. Feynman
  53. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
  54. The Workshopper Playbook
  55. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
  56. Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
  57. 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
  58. The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
  59. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
  60. Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting
  61. Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts With Worry)
  62. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
  63. 17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks: How to Stop Being Lazy, Overcome Procrastination, and Finally Get Stuff Done
  64. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation – Tim Brown
  65. Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within
  66. The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries – Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis
  67. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
  68. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders – Jurgen Appelo
  69. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  70. Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social
  71. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  72. The New York Times Explorer Cities & Towns
  73. Minimal Film: The Cinematic World Reimagined through Graphic Design
  74. Practical Design Discovery
  75. Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places
  76. Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time – Gavin Kennedy
  77. The Growth Handbook
  78. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
  79. JavaScript For Web Designers
  80. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
  81. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living (The Bruce Lee Library) – Bruce Lee
  82. Practical SVG
  83. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
  84. Product Mastery: From Good To Great Product Ownership
  85. A Practical Guide to Managing Web Projects
  86. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
  87. The Elements of Content Strategy
  88. Content Strategy for Mobile
  89. Data-Informed Product Design
  90. Front-End Style Guides
  91. Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
  92. Le leggi della semplicità
  93. You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going
  94. User Experience Revolution (Smashing eBooks)
  95. The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business
  96. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work: How to Grow, Manage, and Work with Remote Teams (Zapier App Guides Book 3)
  97. Thinking in JavaScript
  98. Smashing Book #6: New Frontiers in Web Design
  99. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 2
  100. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 1
  101. The Smashing Book #4 – New Perspectives on Web Design
  102. Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book 3)
  103. The Smashing Book #2
  104. The Smashing Book #1
  105. Performance Optimization: Techniques And Strategies (Smashing eBooks)
  106. The Mobile Web Handbook
  107. The Mobile Book
  108. I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks
  109. HumanKind
  110. GTD® Il metodo migliore per organizzare la tua vita
  111. Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies
  112. Getting Real
  113. Come funziona Google (Italian Edition)
  114. Getting Paid Well To Do What You Love
  115. Freelancing for beginners – What Freelancers Need to Know when starting a Freelancing Business
  116. The Entrepreneurial Adventure: Is It For You?
  117. Digital Adaptation
  118. Designing for Touch
  119. Designing for Emotion
  120. The Conversation Company: Boost Your Business Through Culture, People and Social Media
  121. Connect The Dots: Strategies and Meditations On Self-education
  122. Come imparare una cosa al giorno e non invecchiare mai
  123. A Career On The Web: On The Road To Success (Smashing eBooks)
  124. Le 22 immutabili leggi del marketing. Se le ignorate, è a vostro rischio e pericolo!
  125. Style: Writing from the UnderGround
  126. Visions. Immagini dal mondo
  127. M.C. Escher: Grafica e Disegni
  128. Pop Art
  129. The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
  130. Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job
  131. Essential: Essays by The Minimalists
  132. Git for Humans (A Book Apart #17)
  133. Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
  134. Responsible Responsive Design
  135. Mobile First
  136. Do the Work
  137. Blind Spot
  138. Why We Fail: Learning From Experience Design Failures
  139. Hardboiled Web Design
  140. Nocturnal: Global Highflyers
  141. Wall and Piece
  142. USA on the Road (Insight Guides)
  143. You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us
  144. Strengths Finder 2.0
  145. Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
  146. We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal
  147. V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone
  148. All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works—and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
  149. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
  150. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  151. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
  152. Thinking With Type
  153. The $1 Prototype: A Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design and Rapid Innovation for
  154. Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
  155. Microinteractions: Designing with Details
  156. Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance
  157. Badass: Making Users Awesome
  158. High Performance Mobile Web: Best Practices for Optimizing Mobile Web Apps
  159. Using WebPageTest: Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users
  160. Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed
  161. Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique
  162. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
  163. Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age
  164. Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
  165. Jamie‘s Italy
  166. Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
  167. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
  168. Professional WordPress: Design and Development
  169. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
  170. Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your CareerBusiness Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career
  171. Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols
  172. Lean Websites: Because Web Performance Simply Matters
  173. The Shape of Design
  174. Responsive Web Design
  175. HTML5 for Web Designers
  176. The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
  177. Digging Into WordPress
  178. Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly
  179. Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
  180. The Leu Family’s Family Iron – Fabio Paleari
  181. Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal
  182. Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
  183. Subway Art
  184. Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
  185. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
  186. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
  187. The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  188. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  189. Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
  190. The Conversation Manager: The Power of the Modern Consumer, the End of the Traditional Advertiser
  191. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
  192. On Bullshit
  193. How to Win Friends & Influence People
  194. Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
  195. Your Money: The Missing Manual
  196. This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
  197. Web Performance in Action: Building Faster Web Pages
  198. The Design of Everyday Things
  199. Delivering Happiness
  200. Learn Something Every Day
  201. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (Perigee Book.)
  202. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
  203. Mobile Usability
  204. The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking
  205. Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web (Voices That Matter)
  206. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  207. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  208. Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book: Make a World
  209. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
  210. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
  211. Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect
  212. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  213. Designing the Search Experience: The Information Architecture of Discovery
  214. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  215. Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections—Visualized
  216. Information Is Beautiful
  217. Web Design Index 1-3

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