Product Growth Leaders | Product Conversations with Grant Hunter

This topic of the week episode is on Making Product Success Repeatable. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by Dutch DeVries, Jason Weber, Jason Vincelette, Brenda Blazek, Leah Campbell, Joy McCaffrey, Richard Samela, Dominique Signorel, Cory Bryan, DJ Dailey, and May Wong.   Monday Question: How can you make delivering product success repeatable?​ Poll: Which part of product success is ha...

This topic of the week episode is on Keeping Product Management on Course when Dealing with Cuts. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by Dominique Signorel, Leah Campbell, Calvin Marshall, Richard Samela, Cory Bryan, May Wong, Eva Beasley, Joy McCaffrey, and Paul Hatala.   Monday Question: How do you keep product management on course when dealing with downsizing and budget cuts? Poll: What...

This topic of the week episode is on Measuring the Impact of Good Product Management. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Karen Bell-DeWitt, Cory Bryan, Richard Samela, Zach Harris, Leah Campbell, and Dutch DeVries.   Monday Question: How do you measure the impact of good product management? Poll: What metric should senior leadership look at first when assessing the impact of...

This topic of the week episode is on Dealing with Toxic Companies and Bosses​. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, Jason Vincelette, Brian Weber, Richard Samela, Pamela Schure, and Eva Beasley   Monday Question: What is worse in product management, a toxic company or a toxic boss?​ Friday Question 1: Where does toxicity have the biggest business impa...

This topic of the week episode is on bouncing back after losing your product management job. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by Joy McCaffery, Eva Beasley, Brian Weber, Jason Weber, Cory Bryan, Pravin Kancherla, Shaughnessy Speirs, and Pamela Schure.   Monday Question: How do you bounce back from being fired or let go from your product management job? Poll Question: How can we best sup...

This topic of the week episode is on Health Product Management. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Calvin Marshall, Charles Topping, and Joy McCaffrey.   Monday Question: What does healthy product management look like?​ Poll Question: What is the barrier to healthy product management that is the HARDEST to find (or create)?  Friday Question 1: As a product leader,...

This topic of the week episode is on Burnt Out Product Management Teams. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, Jason Weber, Jason Vinceletter, DJ Dailey, Faith Peterson, Richard Samela, Tracy Hollister, Calvin Marshall, and Eva Beasley.   Monday Question: What are the key factors that lead product managers to become burnt out and overwhelmed? Poll Ques...

This topic of the week episode is on Product Management in the Real World. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, and Eva Beasley.   Monday Question: What is your favorite example of seeing product management in the real world? Poll Question: What causes you to think most about product management in products in the real world? First Question: Where is g...

This topic of the week episode is on Senior Leadership Support for Product Management. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, Eva Beasley, Karen Bell-Dewitt, and Zach Harris.   First Question: If you were talking to your senior leadership team on the value of product management, what would be the most important thing to include? Second Question: What is...

This week, Steve Johnson and I were joined by regular panelists Jason Vincelette and   Joy McCaffrey , and first-time panelist Stephen Feldman .  Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "Is there such a thing as agile product management?"  Listen to our conversation on the poll question "How agile is product management in your organization?" Get our take on the following question...

This week, Steve Johnson and I were joined by a great panel including Jason Vincelette ,   Paul Hurwitz , Calvin Marshall , Brian Weber , Glenn Pride , and May Wong . Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "Where and how do product and brand overlap?"  Listen to our conversation on the poll question "Can product and brands be successful on their own?" Where "It Depends was the c...

This week Steve Johnson and I are joined by one of our largest panels ever with Jason Vincelette , Calvin Marshall , Paul Hurwitz , May Wong , Brian Weber , Glenn Pride , and enjoying the conversation Tracy Hollister . Hear us discuss Monday's question "How do you manage the whole product?" See the results and our thoughts on Wednesday's poll question "What is the hardest part of managing a whole...

The questions we covered are: How do you manage the stress of product management? Poll: What is the leading product management cause of stress and anxiety? As product leaders, what should we be doing to help reduce the levels of stress and anxiety in our product managers? And the lightning round: What would you warn someone new to product about the mental health impacts of being a product manager?...

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "Where does bad product management impact the company the most?" And see Jason, Paul and I discuss that product management may be the most important role in the company, and lack of product management (or good product management) is bad product management. Listen to our conversation on the poll question "What is the leading cause of bad pro...

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "What are the most important business and strategy skills for a product manager to have?" including reviewing a laundry list of skills, including: being a curious empath basic financial literacy maturity discernment impartiality patience ability to ask critical questions in an open and unbiased way understand the market the product serves c...

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "With the Facebook product manager whistleblower in the news, what is a product manager's ethical responsibility with respect to their product(s)?" And her Joy expands on her answer of "Absolute" and her experience with a toxic company. Listen to our conversation on the poll question "Where do you see the biggest opportunity for ethical iss...

This episode compares B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) product management. This week, Grant and Steve are joined by Jason Vincelette, Brian Weber, Vivek Bhatt, May Wong, Glenn Pride, and Paul Hurwitz.

This episode is on product marketing. This week, Grant and Steve are joined by Joy McCaffrey.

This week's episode is about requirements. Grant and Steve are joined by Jason Vincelette, Paul Hurwitz, and May Wong.

This week's episode is about customer success and product management. Grant and Steve are joined by Joy McCaffrey, Paul Hurwitz, Jason Vincelette, Ken Barrette, and May Wong.

This week's episode is on the debate between people and process. Grant and Steve are joined by Joy McCaffrey, Calvin Marshall, Jason Vincelette, and David Bates.

This week's episode is on the balance between strategy and tactics. Grant and Steve are joined by Joy McCaffrey, Calvin Marshall, and Jason Vincelette.

This week's episode is about the process of testing and validating ideas. Grant is joined by Joy McCaffrey and Jason Vincelette.