Product for Product Management

Managing products that have both software and hardware is always more tricky than those with software only. In the past it was limited to servers and communication devices, and to very specialized machinery like medical devices, transportation and such. With the advancements of reduced computing chip sizes and improved speed and powers, along with cloud computing, IoT (Internet of Things) has take...

Henry Latham is a good friend of the podcast, and we talked with him in the past on a few occasions (episode 25 - Tools for Aspiring Product Managers, episode 47 - No Code Platforms - Softr, and episode 65 New book: Product Strategy is Simple). We are happy to have Henry on the show again, introducing his new venture and program Break Free. In recent year, Henry have identified a trend in the Prod...

Have your worked for a product company where the beginning was amazing - everyone were aligned towards the same goal, the product that the team built was an exact fit for the problems that it’s users had, and everything just came out nicely - but then, as the company grew, things didn’t fit as well, new features were not adopted, and overall, the feeling is that you lost the awesome momentum you h...

Frameworks are always alluring, and especially in Product Management, where there is so much to do, and we sometimes need directions from those who have done it before us, or just organizing our work a bit better, but which framework should we choose? In this episode, Matt and Moshe met Oz Nazilli, Founder of PMF (Product Market Fit) Studio - a Toronto based studio that specializes in product stra...

Product Growth is one of the goals for our products once we found a Product Market Fit, but changing our mindset from finding the right solution to a problem that a specific market is facing, to growing the usage of our solution, is not always easy! To help us with this transformation, we can use several product growth frameworks. In this episode, we speak with Yelena Liman, CEO and Founder of EmP...

Generative AI is everywhere, and we all see the impact it creates on our life, no matter what we do. Product Management is no exception. In this episode we met with Eva Gao, Senior Product Manager at Quentic AMCS, who caught our attention when she published a post about how she built a Product Vision video using GenAI tools. A Product Vision video is one of the best ways to convey to the entire te...

We are very excited to bring you our latest episode - an interview with Marty Cagan, on the occasion of the release of his new book TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model. Marty wrote the book with his partners at the Silicon Valley Product Group - Lea Hickman, Christian Idiodi, Chris Jones and Jon Moore, and it was highly anticipated by the entire Product community around the world. F...

What a ride this has been! With a humble beginning three years ago, we are now celebrating our 100th episode! And we celebrated it big, in a live streamed 2 hours episode, with many of our past guests joining us to share what’s new with them, and what is the state of products for product people. Not surprisingly, we all ended up talking about AI, and how AI can help - or hinder - product managemen...

In the past year or two, in parallel to the growth throughout the industry of Product Management discipline and skills, we are witnessing the growth of product coaching as a career path. On this episode we met with Jackie Flake, a product professional turned product coach, and twice founder. Working with her co-founder at The Brave Start, they developed the Product Coach Academy, a program that he...

In today’s episode we had the privilege to meet with Gil Broza, Founder and Value Delivery & Agile Leadership Expert at 3P Vantage, author, trainer, coach, facilitator and speaker, as he released his latest book (number 4!), Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization’s Potential. Bringing his vast experience from decades helping software companies and enterprises with IT departmen...

Continuing our learning on carving the product’s story (with Tovit Neizer in the previous episode), in this episode we explored how we name our products, and why is it even important to have a good name! Joining Matt and Moshe, our guest is Orly Zeewy, Founder, Author and Speaker. Orly’s main passion in everything she does is to take companies’ messaging from fuzzy to clear, so they can attract mo...

Happy New Year product people! We are starting the year with some exciting guests that we have recently met through many different networking events (both online and offline) and we thought their unique point of views can give you so much value! Our first one is Tovit Neizer. Tovit is a business storyteller, owner and chief storyteller at Yellow Bricks. But she is so much more than that - she is a...

What a year! We are wrapping up 2023, an exciting, filled with learning, both professionally and personally for both of us! So we decided, in the spirit of so many others these days, to have a wrap-up episode and talk about so many things we covered on the podcast! We had 30 episodes, 25 guests from 4 continents. We covered 15 products in 3 themed serieses - async communication tools, user testing...

We have a special guest for you in this episode! Itamar Gilad is a product coach, keynote speaker and now the author of the bestseller Evidence Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty. For two decades, he held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft, and a number of startups. Itamar is the creator of the GIST (Goals, Ideas, Steps and Tasks) mod...

Continuing our second edition of the startup series, in this episode, Matt and Moshe are joined by Ohad Biron, Co-Founder & CEO of Bagel. Ohad has the unique experience being a Product person that moved to Sales and other areas of customer success. Working on both ends, he had seen and experienced the tension that sometimes exists between what the go-to-market teams deal with when their client...

Continuing our second edition of the startup series, in this episode, Matt and Moshe are joined by Moodi Mahmoudi, Founder & CEO of NEXT. NEXT is an AI-powered product discovery platform that turns customer interactions into product insights. NEXT collects customer interactions, accurately understands these interactions, and delivers evidence-based insights teams use to validate day-to-day pro...

Continuing our second edition of the startup series, in this episode, Matt and Moshe are joined by Sumeet Rana, Founder & CEO of Prodhub. Prodhub was built to become the Github for Product Managers, with the vision of reducing all the repeatable work product people have when they need to define again and again many common product features that every product has. Think about user registration,...

Today we are starting a second edition to our startup series! We enjoyed in the past talking with startup founders about the products they are building, so we have collected for you some new tools that are helping Product Managers in new ways! In this episode, Matt and Moshe are joined by George Whitfield, Co-Founder and CEO of FindOurView, as well as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust...

We have a special guest for you in this episode! Dan Olsen is a product consultant and coach (he helps companies like Box and Facebook build great products and strong teams), speaker and trainer (giving his trainings and talks around the world), but most importantly for our podcast, he is the author of The Lean Product Playbook - How to Innovate With Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feed...

How do we measure our product team success? That question is in the center of this podcast episode, where Matt and Moshe invited Ross Webb, Principal Product Manager at Amazon and Host of the Product Team Success Podcast to share with us his method to build a Product Team Success Scorecard. In the episode Ross shared what the Success Scorecard is, which problem it is solving, and how he came by wi...

Have you ever been told that you need a Design System for your product and you had no idea what it is? Here is your chance to learn! In this episode we met with Alex Wilson, AVP, Design System Engineering Lead at T. Rowe Price, who has built a Design System from the ground up. Dealing with some corporate resistance, and starting the Design System as a grassroots project within the organization, Al...

In this podcast episode, Matt and Moshe met to wrap up the User Testing Tools series, and share what they learned after discussing several products, from both the perspective of product designers who test their designs, and the POV of a tester, who tests other designs. In the series we learned about Maze, Userzoom, UsabilityHub and UserTesting from Kevin Hawkins, Dovetail from Premika PoSaw, Lookb...

We are continuing the series on User Testing tools, and this time we are learning about User Interviews. To explore this product we invited Igor Voloshin, Discovery Team Head at CoinsPaid, to share his experience. Other than being the guy that is “always with a smile on face” as his awasof social media handle proclaims, and one of the good guys in Russia these days who wants peace and for things t...

Welcome back to our ongoing series on User Testing tools. Today, we have a returning guest, Tracy Laranjo, who will share her valuable insights on being both a tester and a participant in the user testing experience. Tracy is a Fractional CRO Specialist and Co-Founder of the “From A to B” Podcast. She has extensive experience running user tests in her previous roles and has also participated in th...

As we continue our series on User Testing tools, we invited Mike Green, freelance User Research Lead and Podcaster of the Understanding Users podcast, to discuss the product Lookback. Mike explains how Lookback enables remote user testing and provides a platform for researchers to analyze user behavior and feedback. He highlights the benefits of using Lookback, including its ease of use, its abili...