Product Perspectives

Product Perspectives

By Magali PelissierTechnology
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Product Perspectives episodes

  • #54 The Power of Collaboration between PM and PMM, with Marty Bakal, Director of Product Marketing @ Labra.io

    Marty Bakal is an experienced Product Leader who works in product management, product marketing and field application engineering. Marty understands user needs and how to translate them into products and collaterals. He has the ability to translate technical features into content understood by engineering and users alike, and a thirst for knowledge spanning multiple industries.

    In this episode, Marty talks about Product Marketing Management, or PMM, and how he collaborates with product managers on inbound and outbound activities. He debunks some of the misconceptions about PMM and highlights the challenges and opportunities in the PM/PMM relationship. This is a short episode but packed with lots of insights!


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    21 min
  • #53 Get your dream job in Product with Teagan O’Donovan, Managing Consultant @ ISL Talent

    Teagan O’Donovan is a Managing Consultant at ISL Talent, who focuses on recruiting people in Product and Design. Her clients are start ups and scale ups in the tech space of all different industries. She loves helping her clients find the best people to drive business forward and watching her candidates flourish while they progress their careers. At ISL, they pride ourselves on being trusted partners for both job seekers and employers and her main focus is building lasting relationships within the market!

    Whether you’re new to product management or climbing the career ladder, there’s one person you can’t do without: the recruiter. In this episode, Teagan shares her view of the market (spoiler alter: it’s competitive!), how she works with candidates and companies, and how you can get the next role that really works for you. Listen for lots of tips for interviewing and taking full advantage of the candidate-recruiter relationship !



    Reach out to Teagan on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/teagan-o-donovan-527803181/ and ask to be added to her monthly newsletter.

    32 min
  • #52 [Bonus] Forget Product Led, it's all about Vision Driven with Radhika Dutt, Product Leader and Author of Radical Product Thinking

    Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter which has been translated into several languages including Chinese and Japanese. She is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in five acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and serves on the board of the independent publisher, Berrett Koehler. Radhika has built products in a wide range of industries including broadcast, media and entertainment, telecom, advertising technology, government, consumer apps, robotics, and even wine. She graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering, and speaks nine languages.
    In this episode, we talk about taking a vision-driven approach to building products and Radhika shares her toolkit to help create a detailed vision and measure progress against it. We also talk about how our products may contribute to digital pollution and unintended consequences, and how product teams must make conscious decisions about those. Lots of practical tips and real-life examples in this episode to level up your product management!

    43 min
  • #51 Writers aren't robots and won't be replaced by AI, with David Bureš, Senior Technical Writer @ USU Solutions

    My guest today is David Bures, who is a senior technical writer. After starting as a web developer, he moved to the documentation and text translation space and has worked for Microsoft business applications like PowerBI and Azure Suite, but also Apple and Amazon, as well as running his own company. In his spare time, he still codes apps for MacOS, his most popular project has almost 500 stars on GitHub.
    In this episode, we talk about documentation of course, but also translation and localisation. Don’t know the difference? This is why you should listen. David gives lots of tips for better collaboration between PMs and technical writers, and shares the good, the bad and the ugly about working for big tech.
    You can reach out David via these links:
    https://twitter.com/davidbures
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/buresdv/?locale=en_US
    https://github.com/buresdv

    27 min
  • #50 Get more value from your user research with Nick Russell, Co-Founder @ Dualo

    My guest today is Nick Russell. Nick is one of the Co-Founders of Dualo, a stakeholder-friendly research repository that helps product teams to organise, connect, and showcase their key research findings across the wider organisation. Prior to Dualo he worked for 10 years as a Product Manager, leading product teams at ASOS, Gousto, Thomas Cook, and The Telegraph.

    In this episode, we talk about the value of user research and how some of that is lost or wasted due to the difficulty in sharing insights across the organisation. Nick also shares his tips for moving from product manager to founder, and the product management leaders who inspired him to do better user research.

    35 min
  • #49 [Bonus] Unlocking the Secrets of Product Strategy with Founder and Lead Mentor @ Prod MBA

    My guest today is Henry Latham. After 10 years working with different product teams & start-ups to understand what makes products succeed - & others fail - he launched Prod MBA, an 8-week hands-on bootcamp to fast-track aspiring product leaders’ path to Head of Product. He’s coached over 280 Product Managers on product strategy over the last 3 years.

    In this episode, key take-aways include:
    1. What product strategy is, and why it shouldn’t be so complicated
    2. Using the Product Thinking Template and the Minimum Viable Offer Framework to ensure maximum impact and focus
    3. How to communicate with stakeholders effectively


    Link to the frameworks mentioned in the episode:

    https://miro.com/miroverse/product-thinking-board/

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    41 min
  • #48 Unlocking the power of data for better product decisions with Tristan Burns, ex-Global Head of Analytics @ Pizza Hut Digital Ventures

    Tristan is formerly a senior data leader within a US $1BN+ global E-commerce business. He has over 15 years experience in data, financial analysis and strategy roles. He has data experience from startups, scale-ups and the high pressure world of banking where he worked for one of Wall Street's most well known banks: Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Tristan is deeply passionate about technology and startups and has been endorsed by the UK's Tech Nation as a Global Talent in Tech. He speaks frequently at tech events and has experience as a founder having started two marketplace businesses.

    In this episode, we talked about how PMs need to be data literate and how much they really need to know about data to be able to self-serve, but also how they can partner with their analytics team to run experiments that lead to better insights and products, and how AI/ML is changing analytics.

    35 min
  • #47 Successful, consistent and scalable customer onboarding with Rachel Wilde, Head of global implementation enablement @ Harri

    My guest today is Rachel Wilde, who is an leader with over 20 years of experience, specializing in SaaS adoption and growth for startups, with a deep understanding of SaaS technology and customer experience. She has worked at various early and late-stage startups, including Healthy Pet (acquired by VCA Antech), OSI, Next2Friends, and currently as Head of Global Implementation Enablement at Harri, an end-to-end talent acquisition and workforce management platform for the hospitality industry. At Harri, Rachel works closely with product managers to scale technology onboarding for new clients, leveraging her business acumen and technology expertise to drive the company’s success in the highly competitive SaaS industry.

    In this episode, we talk about how, to ensure successful onboarding and customer success, the product team needs to understand and prioritize customer needs of course but also consider compliance needs, user efficiency and scalability. We discuss how Harri leverages the latest technology to onboard its customers and how Rachel works with the product team to establish onboarding processes that are predictable, scalable, and provide a consistent experience.

    43 min
  • #46 [Q&A] What will you do in the first 90 days if we hire you as a Product Manager?

    Welcome to this new episode type, Product Q&A, a weekly bite-size episode, part of the Product Perspectives podcast, where I answer the most common questions that product managers encounter at job interviews and in their day-to-day work.

    Whether you're a seasoned product manager or just starting out in your career, this episode format is for you. Each week, I tackle a different question related to product management, from strategy and planning to user research and design.

    Not only is this podcast a great resource for product managers looking to expand their knowledge and skills, but it's also a valuable tool for interviewers who want to ask insightful questions and for product stakeholders who want to better understand what they can expect from a great product manager.

    So, tune in every Thursday for a new episode of Product Q&A, and join me as I explore the exciting world of product management and answer your burning questions.


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    9 min
  • #45 Establishing a Successful Customer Education Program with Jasonda Desmond, Director of Operations @ Leah Chang Learning Group

    My guest today is Jasonda Desmond who is the Director of Operations at Leah Chang Learning, a women-led digital learning agency. She has spent the last 10 years building and delivering outcomes-focused, scalable customer education programs for B2B SaaS products.

    In this episode, we talk about how Customer education programs have become a key differentiator in the market, helping with sales, adoption and retention. We discuss how product and customer education teams can work together to develop strategies and provide resources for customers, as well as internal training and enablement. Whether you have a team in charge of customer education (or CE as Jasonda calls it) or you’re doing it yourself, this is a great episode to understand the value of those programs and think about them early on in the product lifecycle.


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    30 min

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Product perspectives, the podcast for product people that gives a voice to their stakeholders. Each week, I show you the other side of the product: I interview the people who contribute to making…