Product Team Success

In this Podcast I spoke to the legendary Nick Charalambous, the Founder of Few & Far , a recruitment company that specialises in Product.

When I first spoke to Nick I was really amazed as he didn't go into the normal recruiter type of questions and asked me questions that really challenged me in the best way possible.

In this podcast we discuss:

• How to advance in our Product Career
• The 3 Routes to a GREAT Product Career
• What Product can learn from Sales!
• How to make yourself stand out in your product job search
• How recruiters can tell if someone really will stand out

Enjoy the discussion. I really did and if you're super smart you'll want to connect with Nick.

You can find him on Linkedin here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ncharalambous/

In our latest Weekly CPO Event, Henry Latham and I spoke about :

1. How to raise the bar with your product teams
2. How I created the Product Scorecard
3. What the Key Steps are for creating YOUR own Product Scorecard

We also took lots of questions that the audience had around moving from being individual contributors in Product towards becoming Product Leaders.

The questions were great and we all had a great time.

Looking forward to having you on one of our events in the future.

Want to hear a Jobs To Be Done example including iPods, Cocaine, Cash, CD's and Jiffy Bags?

I can't wait for you to meet Matt Hawn.

Matt has been a product leader for years including stints at Sony, Last.FM, Samsung and Audio Network. Matt has tons of experience in Product and building teams.

He shared with me the most unique example of Jobs To Be Done ever and if you'll excuse the rather clickbaity first line it's really interesting. It's one of those stories that is so unique it really helps you get to the bottom of what Jobs To Be Done really is. It's amazing.

Now only that but Matt has some awesome insights on Product Culture and also how Product should interact with Sales and Go to Market.

You can find Matt on Linkedin at the link below. He's brilliant and I really hope you enjoy this episode.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewhawn/

When you're looking at hiring and scaling up your Product Team there are so many things to consider and Glenn Martin has seen them all.

Glenn and I recently spoke about how to scale up your team and how you, as a Product Leader need to ABH (Always Be Hiring). We spoke about effective ways to do that so it doesn't take up all of your time. Glenn also had a very interesting view for all of those of us who are not hiring at Google, Meta or Amazon. I think Glenn's thinking was a breath of fresh air and it also made me realise just how important this is.

Enjoy the podcast.

If you'd like to reach out to Glenn or find out more about what he's up to the best place is Linkedin here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennnetworks/

Enjoy the episode and, as always, feel free to let me know what you think,

Ross

In this episode Ken Sandy, Author of The Influential Product Manager tells us how we can be more influential in our day to day roles as Product Managers and Product Leaders.

This is so important, especially when we are growing our team (and growing our product).

Ken also had some super interesting insights on how we can find our niche in product. For example he talks about how we focuses only on fast growing startups.

Know Teresa Torres as an expert in continual discovery?

I sure do but I didn't realise she had some amazing insights in what you can "discover" about your next product role.

If you're looking for a new product role, are a Teresa Torres fan or just plain interested in what we can learn from her on continual discovery I think you'll really enjoy this podcast.

It was great to talk to Teresa about things (getting your next product role) that aren't things that everyone necessarily associated her with but she was able to apply her brilliant mind and I really enjoyed her insights.

My friend Alex joined me for this one as she had some really interesting questions for Teresa. Thanks Alex. You Rock

Teresa's boo Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value can be found at Amazon at the link above.

She can also be found at https://www.producttalk.org/

Really hope you enjoy this one and let me know what you think at ross at product dot coach

In this episode we have some big changes.

The Product Coach is now The Product Career Accelerator and to join us kick it off is Henry Latham the Founder of Prod.MBA and the founder of the Prod Career Accelerator.

We've had so much feedback over the last couple of years about how to accelerate one's product career that we've decided to focus the entire podcast on it.

Listen it while Henry and I discuss some of the biggest problems Product Managers and Leaders make in the interviewing process.

All too often as Product Managers we don't say no and just take too much work on.

In this podcast I’m talking to Rachel Hamlin. She's come from a Product Management background to now helping busy executives including Product Managers escape from burnout and recover from it.

Rachel helps us learn how to avoid burnout and we really get into a lot of great mindset topics.

I really hope you enjoy listening to Rachel as much as I enjoyed talking to her. 

Rachel can be found on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelhamlin/

Welcome to the Product Coach Podcast series for Product Leaders with me, Ross Webb, 

Identify online is something that us as Product Leaders and Product Managers need to know about.

In this podcast I’m talking to Paul McGuire, the founder of tru.ID. 

It's interesting that we don't even know how many people we lose after failed sign-ups

They stop in the process, bu thats half of the picture and then afterwards they post on social and they tried to use the app but the experience was so bad they aren't going to use it again. Big knock on effect.

so we're going to be talking to a real thought leader in the field of Authentication

especially now in the world of Mobile, Identify and mobile identity is the is the issue

Why now? By the end of 2020, 46% of the global population owned a smartphone, that's 3.3bn according to Statista. This is projected to grow by a further 11% this year, according to Gartner. Half of the world is carrying a security device on them without realising it

So what's the problem? Product managers may not realise that the lift and shift approach from desktop to mobile goes way beyond making websites responsive, or smaller, or building mobile apps that mimic the way we used to build websites. By doing so, we've created a lot of UX clutter. Paul thinks about the 3 steps a user has to make to request for an SMS to validate their phone number, that's 3 screens right there. A magic link takes you out of your app, and into the email client, leading to interrupted experiences. Paul speaks to app developers and they lose between 20-30% of users at onboarding.

The other opportunity is that there's a very small, but very powerful technology that sits in our pocket - and that's the SIM card.

It's small but it packs a punch in terms of securty and identity data - it's connected to perhaps a boring but very solid, and important industry - the telcos. 

This is a fascinating episode.

I truly hope you enjoy and learn a lot from it