Product Bakery - How Founders Build and Sell with AI

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Product Bakery - How Founders Build and Sell with AI episodes

June 24, 2021#60 - Changing organizational models
In this episode, the Product Bakers discussed their experiences around structuring organizations in hyper-growth and what mistakes leadership teams should avoid doing.

Table of content:
00:30 - Intro episode

02:40 - Basics to structure an organization

04:40 - The Spotify model

06:45 - Why copying models don't work

08:35 - Taking a look at the company culture

10:25 - Mistakes to avoid

11:15 - Autonomy vs. anarchy

16:05 - Summary

Article & book recommendations:
https://www.christianstrunk.com/blog/organic-organizations

Exponential Organizations

Scale Up

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18 min
June 17, 2021#59 Why You Need to Design Strategically - with Jill Lin, Staff Product Designer @Bain & Company
Jill is a strategic and visionary ex-Experience Director with over 12 years of experience. She currently works for Bain & Company as one of their most senior Designers in EMEA.
Throughout her career, she has led and helped international companies and start-ups to innovate, to instill a human-centric design approach, and to grow. She designs interactions at the intersection of people, products, and environments, and brings out incremental and revolutionary changes for the people she designs for.
She's worked in London, New York, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Her clients include Sony, Tiffany & Co., Kellogg's, BP, BT, Jaguar Land Rover, HSBC, Macquarie, and more.

Table of content:
00:30 - Episode summary

03:00 - Intro Jill

05:00 - The definition of strategy

08:30 - Enabling innovation with strategy

10:20 - In-house agency vs. embedded teams

12:30 - Strategic design vs. service design

16:00 - Design & product strategy

19:30 - The biggest strategic challenges companies face

26:20 - Combining design & product strategy

30:00 - Ensuring a holistic design in cross-functional teams

35:40 - 3 Tips if you work on/with a design strategy

Follow Jill:
Linkedin: @cyjilllin

Twitter: @jillybeanlin

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39 min
June 11, 2021#58 We are all biased
Biases are part of human nature. In this episode, Alex discussed with Christian the importance of understanding and identifying your own bias.

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Table of content:
00:30 - Intro & small talk

02:10 - Asking biased question during interviews

04:10 - Common "biased" mistakes

05:50 - Stereotypes

07:05 - Being over-excited

09:25 - Disproving your biased opinion

11:50 - Understanding the most relevant biases

Article about biases:
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/user-research/how-to-overcome-cognitive-bias-in-ux-research/

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15 min
June 03, 2021#57 The Value of Good Content Design - with Jonathon Colman, Senior Group Design Manager @Intercom
I don't care who does the work; I do care that we solve the problem! That was one of the great quotes from Jonathon talking about what content design is and why it's so important to think about it.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Jonathon discussed how to establish content design in a company and what positive impact it has on the UX and success of a product/business.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Summary

01:40 - Intro Jonathon

02:55 - The definition of content design

08:25 - Collaborating with product people

11:05 - Adding content designers to teams

13:10 - Measuring the impact of content design

16:00 - The role & responsibilities of a CD

19:15 - Desing principles

25:25 - When and how to hire a CD (team)

33:15 - Dealing with languages & internationalization

35:10 - Branding & Marketing

41:05 - The future of content design

Follow Jonathon:
Linkedin: @jcolman

Twitter: @jcolman

Intercom product & design principles: https://www.intercom.com/blog/intercom-product-principles

How Jonathon maximized the impact of content design at Intercom

Intercom's design team site and job levels for product and content designers

Are you being clear or clever?

A guide to narrative design

Kristina Halvorson, Erika Hall, and Mike Monteiro talking about content

Books on content design: Content Design, Strategic Writing for UX, Writing is Designing

Events for content design: Design & Content, Button, Information Architecture Conference

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44 min
May 31, 2021#56 Landing a job in product (PM & PD)
Based on questions from the community and general observations the Product Bakers decided to talk about how to land a job in product. They focused on topics such as searching for a job, preparing for an interview, as well as some dos and don'ts for the CV.

Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk & intro

03:30 - Applying as junior vs. senior

04:15 - What makes a good CV stand out (and why)

09:25 - 1 to 5 ratings in CVs (spoiler: NO GO!)

13:20 - Mocked interviews & alternative ways to prepare

15:40 - Applying for the right companies

18:15 - Portfolios for product jobs

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21 min
May 27, 2021#55 Starting a new PM position - with Shaun Russell, Product Coach
Starting a new job as a Product Manager can be very challenging. Especially, if you don't have a mentor a someone who guides you through the process of becoming a PM. Shaun Russell made it to his mission to support people on that journey as a product coach.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Shaun discussed the challenges people are facing when starting a new PM position and how to overcome them.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro

02:30 - Intro Shaun

05:30 - Starting a new PM position

08:15 - Common challenges PMs have

10:20 - Understanding the organizational structure

13:00 - Crucial methodologies to learn

17:30 - Managing stakeholders

19:10 - Being stuck in a position

25:10 - Product Management is like learning a new language

32:15 - Why Bootcamps suck!

34:46 - Passion > Theory

Follow Shaun & his links:
Website: https://www.shaunrussell.me/

Linkedin: @shaun-russell-coach

Twitter: @_ShaunRussell

Book recommendation: Continuous Discovery Habits

https://www.producttalk.org/opportunity-solution-tree/

https://andrewskotzko.com/how-to-know-if-youre-interviewing-at-a-product-led-company/

Continuous Discovery Habits

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41 min
May 20, 2021#54 Giving Product Direction With a Product Strategy - Nacho Bassimo, Director of Product @Xing
Nacho works for more than 12 years in Product Management. One of his key takeaways after more than a decade was, that the product strategy is the most undervalued tool to make a product company successful. He decided to structure and share all his knowledge in his recently launched book: Product Direction.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Nacho make a deep dive into how to define a product strategy and how to communicate and share it with the whole company to get full buy-in.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Episode summary

02:00 - Intro Nacho

04:50 - The importance of a product strategy

07:20 - Product Leads drive product strategy

10:55 - How to start creating a strategy

18:10 - The timeframe

20:20 - Roadmapping based on strategy

22:55 - Roadmapping vs. OKRs

28:50 - Communication is key

31:20 - Mistakes to avoid

34:55 - Measuring strategy & its impact

39:30 - The most important things to take care of

Nacho online:
Linkedin: @juanbassino

Medium: https://nachobassino.medium.com/

Podcast: Conversaciones de Producto

Nacho's book: Product Direction

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41 min
May 17, 2021#53 Scrum vs. Kanban
This time the Product Bakers picked up a frequently asked question from the community and talked about the agile frameworks Scrum and Kanban. Christian highlighted the differences and gave some tips on what framework you can get started with.

Table of content:
00:30 - Episode intro

02:10 - Agile frameworks

03:35 - Scrum vs. Kanban

04:35 - Agile = not changing the plan all the time

07:25 - Velocity vs. throughput

09:00 - Planning & estimating

10:45 - Getting started with scrum

12:30 - Kanban for experts?

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15 min
May 13, 2021#52 Kickstarting a business without technical background - with Richard & Ben, Founders @MOHARA
Richard and Ben both love working with people and startups. It became their mission to help people with great ideas and minor to no technical knowledge to make their dreams come true. However, not every business idea is necessarily a good idea. Therefore they support founder teams with everything they need from product discovery, building the product to shipping it to their future customers.
In this episode they've talked about the importance and the process of validating business ideas, setting up teams for success, and what it needs to build a trust relationship between external agencies and founder teams.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Episode summary

03:00 - The story of Rich & Ben

07:35 - When founders should work with an agency

11:10 - What founders make fail

14:05 - The benefits of no technical knowledge

17:25 - MOHARA's SCUBA framework

20:30 - Validating business ideas

22:35 - The challenges of working with founder teams

30:05 - Fundraising

35:11 - Building trust as the foundation for collaboration

37:15 - When to stop working with an agency

40:20 - What founders can expect from agencies

43:35 - Rich & Ben's biggest learnings working with startups

Follow Richard & Ben:
Website: http://mohara.co

Linkedin Richard: @samsrichard

Linkedin Ben: @ben-blomerley
Article:
Doing the product due diligence right

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49 min
May 10, 2021#51 Product review - JIRA and how to set it up for success
After another dinner, the Product Bakers decided to do another product review. This they took a deeper look at Atlassian's product JIRA and how to set it up in the right way.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk

03:25 - Love it or hate it

06:10 - JIRA & working agile

07:00 - JIRA classic & its terrible UX

11:00 - Defining workflows and projects for success & scale

14:15 - Who should manage & own JIRA?

16:00 - Cross-team collaboration & reporting

19:30 - Two tips to better use JIRA
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22 min

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