Product for Product Management

The podcast episode features a discussion with Premika PoSaw, a Principal UX Designer at GovTech Singapore, about the user testing tool Dovetail. The conversation covers the benefits of user testing, the different types of user testing methods, and the challenges that designers may face when conducting user testing. Premika also shares her experiences with using Dovetail and provides insights on h...

In the first episode of our User Testing Tools series, Matt and Moshe introduced Kevin Hawkins, Global UX Director at Glovo, who shared his insights on what features a user testing platform should have, and spoke about the tools Maze and UserZoom. Now, in the second episode, Kevin joins us again to discuss two additional user testing products, UsabilityHub and UserTesting. But the episode is not j...

Starting the User Testing Tools series, Matt and Moshe have a special treat for you, as they met with Kevin Hawkins, Global UX Director at Glovo, to talk about not one product, but four products! With Kevin's broad experience in design, both across time, professional and educational organizations, as well as across continents and many countries, Kevin has deep knowledge and understanding of what f...

We have a new series for our product management audience, exploring the world of User Testing Tools. In the kickoff episode, Matt and Moshe met to discuss what testing tools are, and what they are expecting to learn in this series, such as: What are the features of user testing tools? Who usually uses them? Where are the testers coming from? What scenarios can be tested? How are results analyzed?...

Google is sunsetting Google Optimize on September 30th 2023, and the experimentation world is abuzz. Some are upset about losing this free experimentation tool, while others feel it’s a good thing for the future of experiments. Many competing vendors are jumping on the bandwagon to get the business, but some companies will stop experimenting all together. Matt and Moshe dove into this boiling pot...

Have you ever wondered what are all the things you need to know to become the best Product Manager? Or what to look for when hiring product managers for your team, and how to grow them in their career? In our latest episode Matt and Moshe met with Ravi Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO at Outpace (formerly Executive In Residence at Reforge, CPO at Tinder, and various Product leadership roles at Facebook,...

Product pricing is one of the challenges we have in Product Management, but we either shy away from it, or alternatively, only use our gut feeling to set up a price, or even worth, price our products compared to our competition. That’s why we invited SaaS pricing expert, Dan Balcauski, Founder and Chief Pricing Officer at Product Tranquility. Dan helps high-volume B2B SaaS CEOs define pricing and...

We have talked in the past about tools for Product Analytics, but we have not yet talked about why analytics are so important for the product manager. It might seem obvious, but it is still a concept that needs more clarification. For exactly that reason, 10 years ago Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll wrote the book “Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster” (O'Reilly), and it is s...

In this podcast episode, Matt and Moshe met to wrap up the Asynchronous Communication Tools series, and share what they learned after discussing three popular products: Microsoft Teams, Loom, and Slack. Microsoft Teams offers comprehensive collaboration features and seamless integration with Microsoft Office suite. Loom simplifies communication through easy video messaging and annotation capabilit...

In our new episode of the Async Communication Tools series Matt and Moshe met with Alex Gueriguian, Chief Product Officer at GoLoot, to talk about Slack as his team’s async communication hub. Slack is probably one of the more known products out there for everyone, but we still learned in this episode about some of the reasons and creative ways to use it. Amongst other things we discussed: Using Sl...

In our next episode of the Async Communication Tools series Matt and Moshe met with Mandar Karlekar, Co-Founder and Product Consultant at Product Rocket, to talk about Loom and how he and his team uses it. With Loom, teams can radically reduce in-person meetings by creating videos of their desktop with their embedded camera video, explaining whatever needs to be explained, and share them on the Lo...

In the first product of the Async Communication Tools series Matt and Moshe met with Justin Meats, VP of Product at RevLocal, to talk about MS Teams as an async (but also synched!) communication tool he is using with his team. MS Teams gained a lot of traction in the past few years, especially with the effects of the Covid pandemic and remote work, but like any other tool, it is about how we use i...

Welcome to the Async Communication Tools kickoff episode. Matt and Moshe met to discuss what is async communication and its importance to product managers and team. In this episode, Matt and Moshe discuss some of their expectations from the series and what they would like to learn, such as: Where is the source of truth and how can we get to it easily Email as the only communication tool, its cons...

In the past few years AI has gain momentum with many applications, but with the recent release of ChatGPT generative AI, the world seems to explode with new hype around the possibilities of giving the AI bot activities to solve for us. How does this new rush of tools impact the life of Product people? In this episode, we met Magali Pelissier, a Director of DaaS development (Product and Technology)...

Product Ops is a relatively new entity in the Product Management discipline of many companies. Similar to other operation functions in the organization, such as Dev Ops or Sales Ops, who provide central services to their departments, Product Ops provide such services to product people. And some of these services include the usage of tools. In this panel episode, we met two leaders in Product Ops,...

Product Culture is one of the things that we see throughout our work and talking with other Product people which can make or break your product success. In this exciting episode, we met Gustavo Razzetti, CEO at Fearless Culture and best-selling author of “Remote, Not Distant: Design a Company Culture that Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace”. Gustavo works with companies and many individual...

Are you a Product Manager that started from a non-technical background? Do you want to learn about a few technical tools and skills that can help you on your product journey? In this episode, Matt and Moshe discuss some basic tools that can help all product managers. Dividing it to the common, most basic product stack - Front End (UI), Back End and Data, we covered the following: On the Data end,...

We are pleased to start 2023 with a returning guest, to talk about his upcoming new book for the Product Management community. Henry Latham, Founder and Lead Mentor at Prod MBA, is publishing “Product Strategy is Simple”. A much needed perspective in the ever growing world of product management knowledge, many people think that Product Strategy is HARD. This was the goal Henry had in front of him...

Although many of us product people have UX and UI designers on our teams, it is not a bad idea to know how to use some of the tools used for designing our products, especially in the wireframing phase, when the design are low-fidelity, and we need to figure out what the best way to contain data on the screens, and the most efficient way for users to use the system. In the series, we covered Figma,...

Welcome to the UX/UI and Wireframing series, where we explore different tools that Product Managers use in the design process, either on their own or with the help of a UX/UI Designer. In this episode, Matt and Moshe had the pleasure of speaking with Sufian Siddiqi, Lead Product Manager at Lucid Motors, about the tool Balsamiq. Sufian has been using it for years now, since it was in beta. He loves...

Welcome to the UX/UI and Wireframing series, where we explore different tools that Product Managers use in the design process, either on their own or with the help of a UX/UI Designer. In this episode, Matt and Moshe had the pleasure of speaking with Faith Peterson, Senior Product Manager at interviewstream, about the tool Lucidchart. Faith is a great advocate of team collaboration, and doing the...

Welcome to the UX/UI and Wireframing series, where we explore different tools that Product Managers use in the design process, either on their own or with the help of a UX/UI Designer. In this episode, Matt and Moshe had the pleasure of speaking with Rob Hall, Director of Product at OxBlue, about the tool Miro. Although Miro is known mostly for it’s whiteboard and collaboration tool for online wor...

Welcome to the UX/UI and Wireframing series, where we explore different tools that Product Managers use in the design process, either on their own or with the help of a UX/UI Designer. In this episode, Matt and Moshe had the pleasure of speaking with Quinnie Chen, Product Manager at Envato, about the tool Figma. Quinnie shared her background as a designer turned product manager/entrepreneur, and h...

Welcome to the UX/UI and Wireframing kickoff episode. Matt and Moshe met to discuss what UX/UI design and Wireframing systems are all about. Although they debated whether to have a dedicated series for each of them, one for UX/UI design systems such as Figma or Invision, and one for Wireframing systems like Balsamiq, they decided on merging these into one series. Reason is that Product Managers do...

In this episode, Matt and Moshe speak with Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO and Leadership Advisor at Bain Public, a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. During their work at Bain Public, Paul and his team developed the SOAP™ methodology, which helps product planning and roadmap...