The Product Experience

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...

Welcome back to The Product Experience podcast! For our first podcast episode to kick off 2023, we speak to Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach, about the systems and languages behind a product. The perfect topic to start the new year. Featured Links: Follow Andy on LinkedIn , Twitter and Mastodon | Andy's website | Andy's 'Mind Your Product Language' Speaker Deck from MTP En...

Some of the most successful people we know credit their mentors for making the difference in their careers. We’ve recently heard great talks from the likes of Barry O’Reilly, Marty Cagan, and Gibson Biddle where they talk about having a ‘personal Board of Directors’.  But how do you go about getting a mentor and getting the most out of the relationship?  We asked Devaris Brown to join us on the po...

With 2023 just around the corner, product managers have been spending the last few weeks looking at their OKRs and thinking about the direction of their product. To help us better comprehend product strategy and direction, we spoke with Product Leader, Chiedza Muguti to discuss making your product strategy come alive. Let's jump right in! Featured Links: Follow Chiedza on LinkedIn and Twitter...

New products get tested and brought to market every day across different scales and sectors. What are the most essential go-to-market keys to make a product launch successful?  There was no one better to discuss this with than Lea Hickman, now Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group—who played a crucial part in introducing Adobe's subscription model for the creative cloud—joins us on the podc...

Featured Links: Follow Marty on LinkedIn and Twitter | Silicon Valley Product Group | Coaching - Managing Time article at SVPG | Two in a Box PM article at SVPG | Shreyas Doshi on Twitter | How to run a Project Premortem Exercise with your Team feature at Atlassian  Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other pr...

Product innovation can get more challenging with the multiple layers of management you have to deal with in larger organisations. How can product managers channel their inner creative thoughts while collaborating effectively in large organisations? There was no one better to ask than Daniel Elizalde, Author of B2B Innovator’s Map, who had all of the answers about B2B product management, innovation...

Featured Links: Follow Esha on LinkedIn and Twitter | Meta | WhatsApp Our Hosts Lily Smith enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro, and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She’s worked on a diverse range...

On this weeks' podcast episode, we welcomed the man who needs no introduction...Marty Cagan, Founder and Party of SVPG , and Author of ”Inspired” and “Empowered” delved into a plethora of topics including  strategy, vision, ethics, and ways of working. We struggled to fit so much product wisdom into one episode, so we decided to split it into two parts! Sit back, grab a drink, and listen to s...

Rerun: We learn something from every guest that joins us on the podcast, but it’s not that often that something they say makes it onto our wall. Dave Martin (co-founder of Right to Left) chatted with us about building great habits for product people, and how to make sure they stick.  He also tells us about his simple question to ask at the end of every week – something that’s already made a differ...

Lily and Randy in this special episode, take a trip down memory lane to have a chat about the best Roadmap insights they've heard from a range of product episodes on the podcast over the past year. Tune in to listen to actionable insights from Philips Nwachukwu, Janice Fraser, Maahir Shah, and more!  Featured Links: Follow Lily on LinkedIn and Twitter | Follow Randy on LinkedIn and Twitter |...

What is the art and science behind a global music platform like Spotify nailing its algorithms to ensure that all users get the exact results that users want when using the search bar? On this week's podcast, Lily and Randy sat down with Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify, to discuss this process, and much, much more!   Featured Links: Follow Jonny on LinkedIn...

This week on the podcast experience, we're talking all about churn. How do you reduce customer churn. What are the biggest obstacles? What are the biggest challenges? And are there any misconceptions behind the perfect churn strategy? Churn expert, Andrew Michael, CEO of Avrio, was able to answer all of our questions with ease and more.  Featured Links: Follow Andrew on LinkedIn and Twitter |...

What makes a great manager and what are the most important factors in making the leap to leading a team? In this weeks' podcast episode, Lily and Randy were joined by the amazing Melike Hope, Product Director at Twitter, to talk all about managing product managers and scaling up your career ladder.  Featured Links: Follow Melika on LinkedIn and Twitter | Melika's IC to Manager video | &a...

This week's episode on The Product Experience is going to sound a little different... Lily and Randy in this special episode, take a trip down memory lane to have a chat about the best OKRs insights they've heard from a range of product episodes on the podcast over the past year. Tune in to listen to actionable insights from Storm Fagan, Todd Olsen, Petra Wille, and more!  Featured Links...

What is The Metaverse and how can it helps product managers in their daily craft? To help us make sense of the movement, Lily and Randy talked with Mitchell Bayer-Goldman to help us unpack all of the buzzwords and complexities about The Metaverse, and why us as product managers should note of where the concept is going. Bonus points for how many times we mention the word "Metaverse"!  Fe...

 What are the most important factors when a organisation decides to adopt a product-led growth approach? On this weeks' podcast episode, we spoke with Executive Product Coach, Noa Ganot all about how to do this the right way and pitfalls to avoid.  Featured Links: Follow Noa on LinkedIn and her website | Noa's Infinity Product Leadership Academy on LinkedIn | Noa's 'Deep Produc...