Product Club

In this episode we talk to Lars-Petter Windelstad Kjos, a serial entrepeneur in EdTech, whos journey from CD-ROMs and laser discs, to gamification and immersive AI- powered products has redefined the space of interactive learning. Currently Lars is the co-founder and CPO of We Are Learning, an immersive 3D learning management system for anyone to create content like interactive stories, simulation...

Join us as we delve into C-level product leadership with Frederik Meinertz Hansen.  We discuss his method of starting a new CPO role with a four week grace period, where the only task is to observe, research and track the inner workings of the company, essentially peeling the onion to get to the What, How and Why.  The episode explores the Chief Product Officer's role and challenges during or...

In this episode we meet up with Sylvia Brudeli, CPO in Trondheim-based Nomono. Nomono builds hardware and software for podcasting and sound editing and so this this is kind of a meta episode as well!   Sylvia has had a very interesting career and have worked with both software and hardware in different companies and as a consultant. Her journey into product and product management was initiated (as...

In this episode we introduce a new concept in Product Club -  Club Meetings. The club meetings are conversations between Halina and Hans Martin on whatever topic is on their hearts currently. In this episode they chat about Hans Martin having to leave his product director role in Oda, the feelings around being let go in a downsizing process, the opportunities and challenges in the market - and las...

One of our favorite topics to discuss with fellow product people is how they ended up doing what they do. Because product managers come from a wide range of backgrounds, it's always an interesting story. Ida Aalen started getting paid for making websites when she was 12, built her own grafitti community on IRC, and has been passionate about great digital user experiences ever since. As co-fou...

We had the enormous pleasure of rounding off this years Y Conference in Oslo with a live podcast recording of our conversation with Product superstars Melissa Perri, Marty Cagan and Gibson Biddle, who all spoke at the conference.   We had a room filled with 600 designers, PMs and developers, we had wine and beer, we definitely had some nerves and butterflies, but most importantly, we had a good ta...

Afonso Franco is a Product Leader, coach, writer and speaker, based in Norway. His framework for coaching PMs (The PM Growth Bubble) caught our eye, and in this episode we touched on these subjects and more: how product leaders can be more coach-like  the power of leading with curiosity  the importance for product organizations to have their own definition of what great looks like.  the benefits o...

In this episode, we talk to Director of Product at Mixpanel in San Francisco about the Product Trio of Design, Product and Engineering, or "EPD" as they call it in Mixpanel. How can a well functioning Product Trio ensure that we have true collaboration and efficient decision making in our Product development processes? How do they divide responsibilities and ownership, and what are the c...

Hans Martin is in the guest chair this week, along with Ninni Høver, Group Product Manager in Vipps. Both Oda and Vipps are in the process of scaling internationally and are ramping up their recruitment of Product Manager roles. We discuss what kind of profiles they are looking for (hint: they can come from many different backgrounds!) , how they are streamlining their recruitment processes, and w...

Welcome to the second Product Club episode about Product Discovery. This time we were joined by Ragnhild Mjønner (Service Designer) and Hege Harreschou (UX Director) from Norway's biggest online market place Finn.no. Product Discovery, is it just a bullshit word? UX Research, iteration, product improvements, innovation... Whatever you like to call it, every product team has some way of discov...

In this episode we talk to Leo Kongshavn, Global Product Lead at Google, about product management skills vs behaviors. Over the years Leo has worked across multiple product teams, across markets and regions and has collected notes on the top behaviors he has seen in product people with a high degree of impact - he calls them EPICC behaviours: E xecute - Unblock with grace. P rioritization - Filter...

In this episode we talk to Gedi (Gediminas) Siuskus, Senior Product Manager in Sopra Steria.  Throughout his career Gedi has had both Product and Project Manager roles, and we discuss the sometimes clear and sometimes confusing differences between them. We also get into public vs private companies, we discuss a public form so bad that it made Halina cry, and we manage to confuse the words Project...

May this be the first in a long series of Product Club podcasts! In this episode we’re joined by Frederik Meinertz Hansen (Product Discovery Lead @ Iterate) to talk about Product Discovery. Join the conversation and meet up with other great product people at produktleder.no.