The Product Experience

Transitioning from a CPO to a CEO is a daunting task, requiring more than just technical skills. In the second half of our chat, Namrata delves into the importance of long-term planning and developing skills. Specifically, we discuss the intricacies of combining sales and product roles, highlighting the potential challenges that come with it. The discussion brings to the forefront the need for pro...

Listen to our conversation with Lucie Buisson, Chief Product Officer at Contentsquare. Lucy is a master at building high-performing teams who focuses on creating value for customers while striking a balance between scalability and feature development. She's got loads of experience and wisdom to share, whether you're leading a team or being part of one. She discusses the importance of mai...

Rerun: OKRs are a simple concept — but deceptively hard to get right.  There’s an awful lot of horror stories about implementations gone wrong, along with any number of gurus and guides on how to get it right. Storm Fagan — now the Chief Product Officer at the BBC, formerly at JustEat — joined us on the podcast to break down how she made OKRs scale at a big company by keeping them simple. (Hint: t...

On this week's podcast, we sit down with Mirela Mus, Founder and CPO of Product People, as we unbox the career progression in product management. We decode the vital differences between various product leadership roles, from VPs to Directors and Heads of Product. Listen as Mirela details her incredible journey into product management and discusses how Product People has set themselves apart b...

Product Operations has been the talk of the town over the past two years, but why is it so important in product management, and what does the role entail? In this week's podcast, Antonia Landi, Product Operations Consultant, leads us on a journey through the world of product ops, outlining its purpose, significance, and how its role can vary based on a company's specific needs. We delve...

Ever wondered what it takes to thrive in product management across different sizes of organizations?  We welcome experienced product leader, Liz Clow, Chief Product Officer at memmo.me. We journey through her experiences across diverse organizations, you'll learn how to put OKRs into practice to steer teams effectively and maintain laser focus. We'll explore the delicate art of saying &a...

Join us on the podcast this week where we uncover the world of content design with Erica Jorgensen, seasoned content designer at Chewy and author of 'Strategic Content Design Tools and Research Techniques for Better UX'.  Erica  walks us through her professional journey and how she fell into the realm of content strategy.  She enlightens us on the significance of using quantitative resea...

Christian Idiodi, Partner and SVPG joins us on the podcast this week! We speak with Christian about onboarding new product hires, and the work he is doing for the first in-person product conference for the African continent. Featured Links: Follow Christian on LinkedIn and Twitter | Innovate Africa Foundation | Inspire Africa | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys wo...

This week on the podcast, we speak to Kax Uson, Head of Product at Adevinta. She tells us all about her story of going from IC to her product leadership, and the key lessons learned along the way. Featured Links: Follow Kax on LinkedIn and Twitter | Kax's website | Women In Product | Kax's 'Coaching for Confident Product People' page   Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a c...

Tune back into our chat with Donna Lichaw on this week's podcast. In part two of the episode, she continues to share key insights in reinventing product leadership and success in product.    Featured Links: Follow Donna on LinkedIn and Twitter | Donna's website | Donna's book 'The Leader's Journey' | Career and alignment: Part 1 - Donna Lichaw on The Product Experienc...

Donna Lichaw, product expert, consultant, and author of ‘The Leader’s Journey’ joins us on the podcast this week. She shares the lessons to reinvent your leadership journey, by activating your superpowers, transforming your team, and poising your business for success in product. Featured Links: Follow Donna on LinkedIn and Twitter | Donna's website | Donna's book 'The Leader's...

In product, basic business analyst skills often get misrepresented in the midst of the plethora of tasks that product managers have to juggle. In this weeks' podcast, Dr J Harrison joins us on the podcast to discuss how product can collaborate more effectively with business analysts.  Featured Links: Follow Dr J on LinkedIn and Twitter | Dr J's website | Dr J and Josephine Baird's &...

How can pricing of a product be affected by supply and demand? In this weeks' podcast we spoke with Vishal Kapoor, Senior Director or Product Management at Shipt, he discussed the process behind dynamic product pricing strategy, when it's right to introduce this strategy, and the lessons he has learned along the way. Featured Links: Follow Vishal on LinkedIn | Shipt | The Innovation Disp...

Have you encountered the challenge of delivering more features quickly with limited resources in your product? Many product managers tend to fall into the trap of becoming feature factories.  In this week's podcast, we had a conversation with Assaph Mehr, a product leader and coach, who shared insights into the analogy of transitioning from a feature factory to a garden.  Join us to learn how...

Dinushi Pieries, VP of Product Management at J.P. Morgan, has years of experience in the product space, having worked for prominent tech organizations for several years. Her expertise ranges from managing services to spearheading the development of innovative portals. In this week's podcast, we spoke with her on the topics of platform product management, open source, and her approach to measu...

Tune into our conversation with Kirsten Mann, CPO at Prospection to hear her key lessons learned from moving the organisation from services-led to product-led. Featured Links: Follow Kirsten on LinkedIn and Instagram | Kirsten's feature 'A case study: The journey to becoming a product-led company' at Mind The Product | Prospection Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant...

How can product managers design the right conversations with stakeholders, teams,  and customers alike? Tune into our conversation with Daniel Stillman, Author of Good Talk - How To Design Conversations That Matter' to find out. Featured Links: Follow Daniel on LinkedIn and Twitter | Daniel's website | The Conversation Factory | Daniel's book 'Good Talk - How To Design Conversa...

Tanguy Crusson, Product leader at Atlassian joins us on The Product Experience podcast this week to talk all about product launches. Tune in to find out his thoughts on why most products fail, and learn how he successfully launched a new product at Atlassian.  Featured Links: Follow Tanguy on LinkedIn and Twitter | Atlassian Presents: Unleash - 'How we created Jira Product Discovery' vid...

We all have passions and desires in life by how can we use our individual passions and channel this into creating products that customers love?  In this week's podcast we speak with Manon Dave, Chief Product Officer to get our creative juices flowing in product management. Featured Links: Follow Manon on LinkedIn and Twitter | Manon's website | Manon's 'Keeping product creative...

Data has been the talk of the town for product managers over the past few years. To provide some insights on data as a product, how to manage data products, and conclude whether it's pronounced 'Dayta' or 'Daata', we spoke to data expert, Omar Sallam, Senior Product Manager at Booking.com. Featured Links: Follow Omar on LinkedIn and Twitter | Omar's Product School &ap...

Tim Herbig has made many mistakes (who hasn’t?). Fortunately for us, Tim not only owns up to his mistakes, he’s written a book to help the rest of us avoid making the same ones.  We’ve all had issues with how to work best – not only within our individual teams, but with the rest of the organisation as well. In our conversation, he shares some simple and practical methods to diagnose when you have...

If you're starting a new role in product at whatever level, it can sometimes be difficult to get started, especially if you're chucked in the deep end.  In this week's podcast episode, we speak with Leah Tharin. She provides some insights on your first 90 days in a new product role and the best ways to gain trust from your new team.  Featured Links: Follow Leah on LinkedIn and Twitt...

This week on the podcast, we jump straight back into our conversation with Ben Foster. Tune in to hear what he had to say about war, peace, vision, strategy, and how to tie it all together in a perfect bun.  Featured Links: Follow Ben on LinkedIn and Twitter | Prodify | Ben's book 'Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management' | Ben's 'Pro...

Vision and strategy in product go hand in hand. In this week's podcast episode we speak to product expert Ben Foster about how to craft these two aspects of product in the real world. Visit AnswerLab.com/mtp to fill in a form for your chance to win a free ticket to Mind The Product San Francisco 2023. Use promo code mtp to enter! Featured Links: Follow Ben on LinkedIn and Twitter | Prodify |...

After nearly 200 episodes on The Product Experience podcast, and four years of interviewing amazing guests, Lily and Randy decided to take on the topic of product coaching by themselves. Based on their expertise in coaching and leading product teams, they dive deep into this topic to share insights for anyone who might be coaching curious. Featured Links: Follow Lily on LinkedIn and Twitter | Foll...