Product Voices

Roadmaps are always a hot topic in product management. How to best use roadmaps? What should they represent? How to best connect them to strategy? Who should be involved with creating them? With whom should we share them? There aren’t that many teams and organizations that have really mastered the creation and use of roadmaps.  On this episode, Navya Rehani Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Peek, sh...

There are few things more important in product management than communication. Product is an inherently cross-functional discipline that requires product teams to constantly communicate about all aspects of the product, the customer, the workstreams ongoing within the org. Effective communication is bedrock to success. One aspect of communication - and connecting with audiences - is storytelling. S...

Organizations and product teams are always striving to improve. To optimize their operations, their structure, their workflows, and the ways in which the teams work. There are myriad “best practices” that can be deployed, and it’s sometimes quite difficult to know what is the best next change to make. What is the thing that if we improve upon, it will make the biggest impact. That is not always ea...

A lot of people have been moving jobs over the past couple of years. The average tenure of a product manager seems to be shortening. Moving companies and even industries can be a good thing for someone’s career. New employees can bring new viewpoints, experiences, and an invigorating energy to the organization. But companies also must ensure that new product managers get onboarded and integrated i...

In product management, we are on a constant learning journey. We are never really “done”. We’ve never learned everything there is. We never become absolutely perfect at a skill or mindset. There is always something to improve upon. And that can be quite tiring and frankly even difficult for our mental health. This episode is about that continuous learning path of the product manager and the toll i...

Product management is a career where we constantly learn and evolve, which isn’t always easy. We often must get out of our comfort zone to learn new things and build new skills. In this episode, Mudassir Mustafa, co-founder of Capabl, shares his journey into product management - from working on oil rigs to constructing commercial buildings to working in tech and product. It is an inspirational sto...

What do all great product managers have in common, regardless of industry, type of product, or company environment?   In this episode, we discuss the 5 immutable truths of great product managers.    They have exceptionally high customer intelligence. They are experts at building relationships. They are master communicators. They have uncommonly good judgment. They are fanatical about prioritizing...

Relationships in product management are bedrock to success. Some product managers find it easy to build relationships with peers but have a difficult time bridging these important connections with senior leaders. It may be an intimidation factor, or just simply not around them as much. But relationships with these folks are so important. And so product managers really must find ways to foster real...

In this episode, Chad McAllister, PhD, founder of Product Mastery Now and host of the popular Product Mastery Now podcast (formerly known as The Everyday Innovator) joins to discuss common challenges he sees in product management and ways to overcome these challenges.  We discuss: Not spending enough time with customers Focusing on the solution more than the customer problem A lack of understandin...

Remote work is commonplace in product management and will continue to be for most organizations. As companies and employees navigate what work arrangements will be most optimal for all, there are some things we are learning about how to succeed in remote first and hybrid environments. Joao Craveiro (Cravvie), staff product manager at Remote, joins JJ to share his insights on various flavors of rem...

Product Managers without non-technical background often have a lack of confidence in their abilities, thinking technical knowledge is imperative for the PM role. That is not necessarily true, even with technical product likes data or machine learning (ML).  On this episode, Raj Muhar, Director of Product at Innovid, shares how she navigated her product management career in a technical field withou...

Good communication is such a bedrock of everything we do in product management, from our relationships with our internal stakeholders to our customer communications, our go to market strategy, everything is impacted by communication.    This episode is all about communication and what that means for us in product management. Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager  Handbook, host of Secre...

There seems to be a connection between the skills and mindset it takes to be an entrepreneur and a product manager. In this episode, Raena Akin-Deko, Founder and CEO of Verve Strategy, discusses ways that product managers and entrepreneurs can learn from each other and leverage similar skills to be successful.

John Fontenot, author of Never Assume: Ten Fatal Assumptions Great Product Managers Never Make, shares insights from his new book and provides listeners with tips to avoid common assumptions in product management. This is part two of a two-part episode. 

John Fontenot, author of Never Assume: Ten Fatal Assumptions Great Product Managers Never Make, shares insights from his new book and provides listeners with tips to avoid common assumptions in product management. This is part one of a two-part episode. 

What is the future of work and what can we do to ensure the future is better for everyone?  In this episode, Susan Liao, founder of Startups for All, shares her insights on how the future of work may look and ways that we can navigate - and even steer - some of those changes.

"So tell me tell me about your experience as a woman of color in business and in product management." "The short answer is I'm the only one. In many instances in my career, I've been one of few or the only.  And I'm currently the only black female product manager at my company. " We have a diversity problem in product management. On this episode, Amber Hall, prod...

Change is an inevitable part of product management. We don’t deal in absolutes. Product management is a system of interconnected activities, people, data, incentives, objectives, predictions, and decisions. With all that nuance and all those conditions, there is no way we can exist in a rigid, static environment. Change is a part of our world in product, but not every organization handles change i...

Is product management different for B2B products than for B2C products? Obviously there are a lot of similarities but there are some nuances that are important to understand. On this episode Jason Knight, product leader and host of the wildly popular podcast One Knight in Product, is here to discuss how B2B product managers can be successful . 

Product management seems to simultaneously be constantly changing and also staying the same over time. Things come, things go. Many things remain from the core principles of long ago. But one thing that is certain is that folks working in product management must stay on top of trends in our product management world and what’s going on all around our customers.  Grant Hunter and Steve Johnson join...

Customers need to understand the product and the value a product brings them. Internal teammates need to understand the product so they can support, market, or sell it.   In some cases, part of a product manager’s unwritten responsibility is to also champion the product management function across the organization.  Conveying information and knowledge is a valuable skills for folks in product manag...

Episode 007: We answer the following questions: 1) Advice for people in non-product roles to best get involved and support and engage with product managers? 2)  What are some of the best ways for a product manager to gather customer data? 3) With all the discussions and implementations of KPIs and OKRs, how can a Product Manager "keep things simple" and effective to ensure a successful p...

Episode 006: Amber Hall, Product Leader at Kohler: "My point of view is we as humans exist in a physical 3D body that exists in a 3D world. And for the most part, the things that we interact with every single day have some physical element to them. Even most of the software that is created by way of tech companies often exist on some sort of physical embodiment to deliver that software. And s...

In this episode, Prerna Kaul, Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon, where she has built AI/ML products in the payments, healthcare, and Alexa domains, shares her expertise on building successful artificial intelligence platforms.  We discuss the basics of AI platforms, differences in AI and other types of software, skills needed to be a successful product manager in AI, and more.