Lessons In Product Management

On today's episode, I sat down with Rich Sanchez, Product Manager at InStride.  Rich has a background in IT but soon found himself transitioning into Product Management for companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Disney, and now InStride.  This episode is all about how to find new opportunities as a PM by up-leveling how you think On this episode we discussed: How Rich fell in love with P...

On today's episode, I sat down with Greg Prickril, Founder of Career. PM and Prickril Consulting and former Senior PM at IBM, Microsoft and SAP.  In this discussion, Greg shares why PMs should be much more involved with architecture than we probably think we should. Here's some of the points we discussed: Architecture impacts the business in ways we won't know until it happens We can miss out...

On today's episode, I sat down with Clement Kao to discuss how the best PMs have side hustles Here's what we discussed: Clement shared how he accidentally fell into product management with no experience, and his steep learning curve created the empathy for what he does now in his side projects Clement has published over 60 articles, read by over 200K PMs across the world, on PMHQ, the product mana...

On today's episode, I sat down with Tommi Forsstrom, VP of Product @ Teachable. While working in Venture Capital with growth-stage companies, Tommi discovered the power of having a strong sales organization and the need for product management to collaborate closer with sales Some of the topics we cover include: Why PMs need to take ownership and proactive steps toward deeper engagements with sales...

On today's episode, I sit down with Alex Mitchell, Chief Product Officer at ICX Media Alex is an avid blogger on Medium and over the last year, Alex's posts have gotten over one million views.  Before COVID-19, Alex had worked in several companies that had a heavy remote component, but this is the first time Alex would be working from home full-time.  To help others who might be going th...

On today's episode, I sat down with Tanay Agrawal, former PM @ Atlan and Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University  Tanay had spent the first two years of his career as a software developer but quickly made the transition to product management. After two years as a PM, Tanay decided to pursue his Master's in Product Management at Carnegie Mellon University.  While studying to become...

On this episode of Prodcast, I sat down with Susan Stavitzski, Director of Product @ Hatch!  Susan shared how and why she made the transition from Product Marketing to Product Management and how her background as a product marketer has not only helped in her roles in product, but it's also given her a unique perspective on the relationship between the two roles.  She also explained the t...

Shawn shares how to create opportunities in your career and take advantage of the ones in front of you. We also discuss what type of opportunities you should pursue and when to say no.