Product Club

In this episode we talk to Leo Kongshavn, Global Product Lead at Google, about product management skills vs behaviors.

Over the years Leo has worked across multiple product teams, across markets and regions and has collected notes on the top behaviors he has seen in product people with a high degree of impact - he calls them EPICC behaviours:

1. Execute - Unblock with grace.
2. Prioritization - Filter out the incremental from the transformational.
3. Influencing others - Wielding soft power.
4. Communication - Get your story straight.
5. Curiosity - Stay humble and cultivate a constant wonder.

In this episode we talk to Gedi (Gediminas) Siuskus, Senior Product Manager in Sopra Steria.  Throughout his career Gedi has had both Product and Project Manager roles, and we discuss the sometimes clear and sometimes confusing differences between them. We also get into public vs private companies, we discuss a public form so bad that it made Halina cry, and we manage to confuse the words Project and Product several times during the conversation.

Reach out to Hans-Martin, Gedi or Halina on the Produktleder.no Slack, or on LinkedIn if you want to discuss this topic further or want to join the pod as a guest.

Links from the episode: 
Origo: https://www.oslo.kommune.no/etater-foretak-og-ombud/oslo-origo/#gref
Martin Eriksson: https://martineriksson.com
His book on Product Leadership: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30014114-product-leadership
Hackathons:
https://www.techstars.com/events
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/hackathon/ 

May this be the first in a long series of Product Club podcasts! In this episode we’re joined by Frederik Meinertz Hansen (Product Discovery Lead @ Iterate) to talk about Product Discovery.

Join the conversation and meet up with other great product people at produktleder.no.