Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast

This week, Alex talks about how he does product discovery and how he and his team managed to establish a new process within their company. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Product Bakery ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ @productbakery ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ @productbakery20 ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🌍 Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.product-bakery.com/

After many requests, we finally talked for the first time about OKR planning! In this episode, we looked at the whole planning process of OKRs on a team and company level. We specifically looked at the planning process and the common traps teams fall into. OKR planning & process https://www.christianstrunk.com/blog/practical-okr-planning-guide Defining OKRs: https://www.christianstrunk.com/blo...

This time we attended the Chief Product Officer Conference 2023 in Berlin. We've hosted a panel discussion and talked about product lead growth as well as the importance of AI. Our guests: Mirela Mus - CPO & Founder @Product People Rhiannon White - CPO @Clue Belen Caeiro - VP Product @Microverse ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: ⁠⁠ Product Bakery ⁠⁠ 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠ @pr...

After our previous discussion about product owners and managers, we looked deeper into product design vs. UX design. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: ⁠⁠ Product Bakery ⁠⁠ 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠ @productbakery ⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠ @productbakery20 ⁠⁠ 🌍 Website: ⁠⁠ https://www.product-bakery.com/

Product management and design collaboration is what we've talked most about in the past. The same goes for product and engineering collaboration. In this episode, we talk about how product designers and engineers should collaborate to ensure seamless delivery to production. Follow us on LinkedIn: Alex Dapunt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexdapunt/ Christian Strunk: https://www.linkedin.com/in...

We enjoyed talking to the analytics veteran and product evangelist Adam Greco. Adam has more than 20 years of experience in the industry. We talked about the importance of good data for marketers and product teams, the shift from sales-led growth to product-led growth as well as the upcoming trends around machine learning and AI. Table of content: 00:30 - Intro Adam 02:40 - The rise of data 05:10...

The product manager vs. product owner discussion is still a thing. What's the difference and how do companies distinguish these roles? This time, we shared our thoughts and experiences around the titles. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Giving and receiving feedback can be very challenging. Especially when it comes to the topics that bother us. In this episode, we talked about how we're giving feedback as well as the negative side effects of not speaking the truth. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.c...

Do you have a place where you collect every idea of a stakeholder, team members, etc.? Are some ideas getting lost sometimes?  We discussed some approaches to manage ideas and report transparently on the progress of the stakeholder requests. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.pr...

Christian was at the Berlin Product Conference 2023 and hosted a panel discussion about the importance of user-centricity in product development. The whole conversation was recorded including the QA session.  Panel Guests: Henning Witzel - Head of Product Design @NewStore Benjamin Keyser - CPO @Latana Vamsi Krishna Wuppalapati - Interims CPO @Phyntelligence ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast...

Netflix shared their new salary ranges due to the legal requirements for open positions. Interestingly a senior designer role has a range between $50k - $600k. We discussed the crazy range and what you can do to get the salary that you deserve! ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.prod...

Creating a good product strategy is one thing. Another is ensuring that the whole company buys in and follows the strategy. We talked about how important it is to clearly communicate our plans as product leaders. Need inspiration? Check out this product strategy template: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mLNt7f6CPPa3FzNxnHZAS7pxgp-QDOLL2UtsBe7fcKI/edit?usp=sharing ✩ Follow The Product Baker...

"I don't have time to..." is maybe a quote you've said or heard many times. We made a deep-dive into time management and talked about the root-causes. Meeting attendance decision tree: 👉 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZfkXdTt7hfkxWNe9ujPe4QdmoaWsuilS/view?usp=sharing 👈 ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20...

Today, we talked about the recent news on FTX (crypto exchange) and the current mass layoffs the tech industry faces. We took a deep dive into how the current economic situation impacts hiring, culture, how people are approaching job search, and more! ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://w...

After an eventful year, we're heading into a short break. Thank you all for the support throughout this year and see you back in 2023. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

We're sure you've heard about ChatGPT! In this episode, we discussed the new technology and the threats and opportunities of this new enhanced AI. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Backlog management is not only a task for product managers. Design teams need to manage and prioritize their work as well. Therefore, we talked about how to best manage and coordinate the work between product and design. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

The new Arc browser is on its way! This time, we discussed how browsers have developed and what we expect from a product & design PoV from a good browsing experience. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

Maybe you've experienced something similar... Many times people work on features or solutions... if you ask the question though: "What's the problem" you are not getting a real answer... In this episode, we discussed why people are tempted to jump to solutions and how you can be more problem/customer-centric. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸...

After more than 91 episodes we finally talked about design thinking. This time, Alex got interviewed about his opinion on design thinking and how to apply it. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

There is a tool... called the company compass or medicine wheel. It's used for strategic planning and defining clear roles within a company, project, or group. In this episode, we talk about the new framework we've discovered and how to apply it in product. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: htt...

This time, we talk about how to best approach when your team members are struggling with their performance. We looked at questions like: What best to do? What do the people need? How can you empower them? Tune in to learn more! ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

What to do if you're in trouble with your leader(ship team)? Can individual contributors make a change? Is it even their job? Or, should you just move on and let it go? This time we talked about what product people can and may should do if they want to change the direction of their leaders. ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter...

You may have noticed that Instagram updated its app and rolled it back to the previous version. We took a closer look at what has happened, especially on the product & engineering side.    ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩ 👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery 📸 Instagram: @productbakery 🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20 🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/

In this episode, we talk about the importance of having and working with experienced people who coach or mentor you.  ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩    👨‍💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery    📸 Instagram: @productbakery    🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20    🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/