The Product Experience

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...

What is design debt and how do so many teams end up in this conundrum during or after the design phase? In this week's podcast, Bansi Mehta, CEO of Koru UX Design teaches us a lesson on how product teams can work with design teams to recognise, avoid, or even tackle design debt. Visit AnswerLab.com/mtp to fill in a form for your chance to win a free ticket to Mind The Product San Francisco 20...

It's not always so easy being green in product management. Listen to our conversation with Amy Wagner, Agile Consultant and Coach, where we discuss permaculture for agile teams and why it's important to inherit a green culture in product.  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!  F...

OKRs here OKRs there. Every product team seems to have an opinion on how effective they are and their best approach to making best use of the metric model. We spoke with OKR expert Sten Pittet, to find out ways on how to get the most out of this goal setting strategy, and discuss where most product people go wrong.  Featured Links: Follow Sten on LinkedIn and Twitter | Tability | Slides from Sten&...

There's a ton of stuff going on in the product and wider workspace today. Tune into our conversation with Esther Weinberg to hear about how product people can deal with company transformation during times of disruption.  Featured Links: Follow Esther on LinkedIn and Twitter | The Ready Zone | Esther's article 'The Power of a Reality Check, Moving from Reactive to Responsive' |...

What are the keys to making a quality product for quality customers? There was no one better to talk with than Lina Zubyte, Head of Quality, at Doodle AG to discuss this. Jump into this quality conversation in this weeks' podcast episode.  Featured Links: Follow Lina on LinkedIn and Twitter | Quality Bits | 'What is quality?' article Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consulta...

In this weeks' podcast,  we jump straight back into our conversation with Lucy Spence where we speak with her about trade-offs in product management.   Featured Links: Follow Lucy on LinkedIn and Twitter | Lucy's page at Medium | Lucy's 'Trade offs' talk at UX Brighton 2022 | Listen to Lucy's part 1 episode her . Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant pro...

Today on the product experience podcast is all about trade-offs in product. Lucy Spence, Product Director at Appvia talks to us about her unique take on this important aspect of product management.  Featured Links: Follow Lucy on LinkedIn and Twitter | Lucy's page at Medium | Lucy's 'Trade offs' talk at UX Brighton 2022 Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant produc...

What is it like starting a brand new job in product with a shiny new title? How do you approach onboarding and ensure that you have a smooth transition into your new team? Lily and Randy in this podcast episode provide their top tips on getting things off on the right foot.  Featured Links: Follow Lily on LinkedIn and Twitter | Follow Randy on LinkedIn and Twitter | BBC Maestro | Randy's &apo...

There's a stage in many product interviews where the hiring manager asks you to prepare a presentation. With limited information about the level of detail and the quality of your competition,  how are you meant to know what flies and what doesn't? On this weeks' podcast, we spoke with Edward Biden, Founder of Hustle Badger and former CPO at Future Learn and YunoJuno to guide us thro...