Product to Product

By Roadmunk

Technology Business

What's Product to Product about?

At Roadmunk, we build a product management platform for product people (beautiful + collaborative roadmapping software); and as part of the product management community, we’ve seen how open product people are to helping their peers. They share their own experiences of working in product, both the good and the bad, in very honest ways. We decided to take the candid conversations that are happening in product communities on Reddit and Slack and Medium – and turn them into an interview podcast. We have really cool interviews coming up with product managers, designers, marketers and the odd engineer, too.

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11.09.2021

Good product managers are customer-obsessed. They build products and features that will solve their customers' problems. But Peter Yang from Reddit argues that great product managers focus on how products make customers feel. Dive into this episode with us as ...

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11.09.2021 Your product, your community, your emotional wheels Good product managers are customer-obsessed. They build products and features that will solve their customers' problems. But Peter Yang from Reddit argues that great product managers focus on how products make customers feel. Dive into this episode with us as ...
10.26.2021 How Webflow PMs use product sense to drive their roadmaps Is product sense a superpower? In this candid conversation, Webflow PM Frank Ramirez, details the tough transition he made into product management, the mistakes early PMs make, and much more. This episode may even help you discover your PM superpower!
10.13.2021 Are User Interviews a Waste of Time? It's always a good idea to talk to your customers. But Hinge's Chief Product Officer, Michelle Parsons, thinks we're looking for the wrong things in our user interviews. In this episode of Product to Product, Latif and Michelle dissect how ...
09.30.2021 A Scientific Approach to Product Sense Product sense is more than a gut feeling or intuition. Avrum Laurie, VP of Product at Wealthsimple, walks us through a scientific approach to employing product sense predictably and effectively.
08.31.2021 What does product sense look like at a startup? Insights from a CEO Data is important but it's only one piece of the puzzle. Kristin Chen, the CEO of Top.gg, reminds us that data can only show us where a fire is but not what caused it. In this episode of Product to ...
08.19.2021 Can you lose product-market fit? Balancing data and customer stories Don't get too comfy once you've found product-market fit! Our guest today, Ramli John, warns companies that if they don't keep their thumb on the pulse of their customers they could lose their market. On this inaugural episode of Product ...
07.28.2020 Early adopters and laggards give the most useful user feedback - Abhi Bhatt @ Amazon Alexa (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak as well as the Black Lives Matter marches.) For Abhi Bhatt, Head of Product at Alexa Identity, who’s worked on innovative and category shaping products (like the first generation Motorola ...
07.14.2020 Customer feedback is constant and helps grow user empathy–Sarah Pyo @ Shopify (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak as well as the Black Lives Matter marches.) Shopify Product Lead Sarah Pyo says it’s crucial for PMs to be close to user feedback; by joining customer calls, reviewing feedback ...
06.30.2020 Ditch the MVP, embrace the MLP and listen to your users - Veronica Hudson @ Twilio (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak as well as the Black Lives Matter marches.) Ditch the MVP, embrace the MLP and listen to your users, says Veronica Hudson, senior PM at Twilio at the time of ...
06.02.2020 Focusing on the wrong customer segment? Fire them - Asheesh Birla @ Ripple (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.) Fire the customer if you need, says Asheesh Birla, Ripple’s SVP of Product, when talking about the importance of customer segmentation. Asheesh says if your company is going after the ...
05.19.2020 10X better (than competition) or bust - Jeetu Patel @ Box (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.) Build a product that’s 10X better than your competition, said Jeetu Patel, Box’s Chief Product and Chief Strategy Officer, in the new episode of Roadmunk’s Product to Product podcast. Jeetu ...
05.05.2020 Your mission justifies why ideas are prioritized - Christine Yoon @ Hubspot (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.) We’re back with another episode of Product to Product, a podcast brought to you by Roadmunk. In this episode, Christine Yoon, a Product Manager within Hubspot’s Business Enablement team, says ...
04.21.2020 Customer feedback points out problems, PMs find solutions - Niki Agrawal @ Bumble Hey product people, (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.) We’re back with another episode of Product to Product, a podcast brought to you by Roadmunk. In this episode, Niki Agrawal, a PM at Bumble, says while ...
04.07.2020 Feedback + idea management is half science, half art - Rose Yao @ Google Maps Platform (Disclaimer: These episodes were recorded prior to the coronavirus outbreak.) Season 6 of Product to Product is back with episode 2. This season, we’re talking about feedback and idea management. In this episode, Rose Yao, a Senior Director of Product ...
03.24.2020 Customer driven roadmapping - Latif Nanji @ Roadmunk Season six of Roadmunk’s Product to Product podcast is back and we’ve given it a refresh! A new format, host and style. Thank you so much for following along and listening to our previous episodes. We really appreciate it. This ...
12.03.2019 A tool kit for hyperscale - Nick Caldwell @ Looker During rapid growth, a company runs the risk of creating silos and diminishing overall productivity. There needs to be a balance between being independent, yet engaged with company’s business goals, which sometimes means a complete reorganization of the company’s org ...
11.19.2019 How to retain the all-stars you've hired - David Cutler @ Spotify After the long, stressful and expensive process of hiring and onboarding a new employee to your team, what comes next is retaining the all-star you’ve just hired. Product companies with a low talent churn creates stronger company culture as well ...
11.05.2019 Over communicating is the key to alignment - Priya Wellington @ Medium Getting stakeholder alignment is an idea in the product world that seems like an obvious objective, but it’s often one of the toughest parts of a PM’s job. It’s worth investing the time to make sure everyone’s on board with ...
10.22.2019 Tech debt: a love/hate relationship - John Hung @ Asana Nobody likes to be in debt and technical debt, the deliberate shortcuts made to ship your product faster, but that end up taking more time to fix, is no different. In this episode, we talk to John Hung, a PM ...
10.08.2019 You've hired your PMs, now trust them - Brandon Chu @ Shopify, Christina Perdikoulias @ DigitalEd We recently hosted a panel discussion with two veteran PMs in Toronto as part of our Product 2 Product event series...and we recorded it! In this episode, Shopify’s VP Product & GM of Platform, Brandon Chu, and Christina Perdikoulias, DigitalEd’s ...
09.24.2019 How structure eases growing pains for product teams – Jeff Lash @ Forrester As a product company scales, the complexity of the business also increases. The more employees there are building your product, the more coordination happens between several teams. One of the challenges of a growing product organisation is the need for ...
09.10.2019 How to successfully onboard new PMs – Cem Kansu @ Duolingo Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people, is back for season 5! This season, we’re diving into the growing pains of a scaling product company. We’ll be giving PMs tactical advice on how to overcome common roadblocks ...
06.03.2019 Referrals are a retention play – Pratik Shah @ Airbnb Your most loyal users will help you find your next most loyal user—through referrals. Airbnb's Pratik Shah says they’ll also stick around longer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
05.21.2019 Scaling a monetization strategy as you scale - Katie Guzman @ Asana The average SaaS company spends 8 hours on pricing—don’t do this. Asana's Katie Guzman walks us through how a $$ strategy can evolve with your product. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
05.07.2019 Unlocking user onboarding for growth - Emily Lonetto @ Clio This episode, we're joined by Emily Lonetto, who works in growth at Clio and calls herself "strangely obsessed" with onboarding. She's built several onboarding flows in her career and gives us the low-down of how to hook your users, right ...
04.23.2019 North stars are leading you astray - Brian Balfour @ Reforge Welcome back to another episode of Product to Product, the podcast for / by product people hosted by Roadmunk. This season, we’re taking a deep dive into growth and giving PMs practical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product. Brian ...
04.09.2019 Building world-class growth teams - Willie Tran @ Mailchimp Willie’s worked on teams that were scaling at places like Dropbox and Mailchimp—so he shares his many opinions on how to build growth teams.
03.26.2019 All PMs should be growth PMs - Shaun Clowes @ Metromile Adapt or get left behind—that’s what the CPO at Metromile (previously Atlassian), thinks about PMs and the growth mindset / toolkit.
03.05.2019 Season 4 Teaser Back on air March 26, season 4 tackles a brand new theme—growth. We’re giving you tactical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product. Each episode a member of our team will discuss one growth topic with a product person from ...
11.13.2018 Is there a downside to dogfooding? - Nick Franklin @ ChartMogul It's our season 3 finale of Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people! We're breaking down, dissecting and debunking the product buzzwords you love to hate, and hate to love. In our last episode, we’re joined by ...
10.30.2018 Debunking the "V" in MVP - Anaid Chacon @ Dropbox Let’s face it, MVPs are confusing. Anaid Chacon explores just how viable the term (short for Minimum Viable Product) is.
10.16.2018 #NoEstimates: Myth or movement? - John Cutler @ Amplitude To estimate, or not to estimate, that is the question. John Cutler cuts through the noise and introduces a much better question to ask.
10.02.2018 The “shittiness” of being a “shit umbrella” - Kristen Huntley @ NBC Kristen Huntley knows that part of being a PM is shielding a team from external “shit.” But she takes issue with her “shit umbrella” duties.
09.18.2018 CEO of the product: An accurate title for PMs? — Anup Dhalwani @ Uber Some PMs take “CEO of the product” to heart; others call BS. But Anup Dhalwani’s on the fence. He thinks the term works—with conditions.
09.04.2018 Explaining the why — Leora Katz, Product Manager @ Buzzfeed Establishing “the why” is essential to being a good PM. But not all PMs context-set often (or well) enough. So, Leora Katz has some tips.
08.27.2018 Season 3 Teaser It’s season 3, product people, and we’re talking product buzzwords. Each episode, join us and a product person from a really cool company as we break down, dissect and debunk the product terms you love to hate and hate to ...
05.28.2018 From tension to trust: How a PM transformed team culture - Gustavo Melo @ Amazon When Gustavo Melo joined Amazon’s wedding registry product team, he noticed that the technical side wanted to develop cool features and the non-tech side wanted to deliver business value. Seeing a major gap, Gustavo set on a mission to reverse ...
05.14.2018 What to do when managing PMs gets messy — Ben Mills @ Venmo As a product team lead, you’re not managing the product per se. You’re managing other product managers with their own opinions on how the product should work—which means things can get messy. As Venmo’s head of product, Ben Mills has ...
04.30.2018 What is product conviction and where does it come from? - Brian Donohue & Michelle Fitzpatrick @ Intercom The data says one thing, but your gut says otherwise. What’s a PM to do? Can you trust your intuition to make the right decision for your users? Luckily, Brian Donohue and Michelle Fitzpatrick have first-hand experience with building “product...
04.17.2018 Changing human behaviours, one AI bot at a time - Sanette Tanaka Sloan @ Vox Media When Sanette Tanaka Sloan joined Vox Media’s first-ever R&D team, she was tasked with designing an AI bot for the Amazon Echo. The goal? Change the way audiences were finding and consuming their news. Little did she know, this project ...
04.11.2018 Personas & JTBD: Getting to know your users better - Mike Belsito & Michael Sacca @ Rocketship.FM User personas and jobs to be done have long been go-to frameworks for product people wanting to click with their users. Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca recently did a deep-dive into these two concepts on Rocketship.FM. So on this bonus ...
04.03.2018 To think, or not to think, like a product manager - Melissa Perri @ Product Institute & Produx Labs As a product management consultant and founder of a product school, Melissa Perri’s mission is clear-cut: teach people how to effectively think like a product manager. So we investigate what fuels product thinking, and how aspiring / existing PMs...
03.19.2018 Taking care of your product team's well-being – Lulu Cheng @ Pinterest As a product manager it’s easy to get so caught up in hitting KPIs that you forget to ask, “How’s my team doing?” For Lulu Cheng, her team’s “wellness” needed just as much focus as her metrics. So she prioritized ...
12.21.2017 How a 'free forever' product can = rapid revenue growth – Marc von Brockdorff @ Hotjar An integral part of Hotjar's success (fully bootstrapped to $10 million ARR) is their freemium pricing model. Many Hotjar users will never pay the company a cent. We find out how free usage has helped Hotjar grow + how it ...
12.07.2017 How a PM career preps you to be an early-stage startup founder – Ellen Chisa @ A new startup Ellen Chisa recently made the transition from VP of Product at Lola to startup co-founder. We find out how Ellen’s career in product management is helping her tackle the challenges of an early-stage startup head on.
11.23.2017 What is "PM culture?" – Aman Manik @ Square Aman Manik noticed that his fellow product managers at Square had very different perspectives on what their job description should be. So, he decided to get them all together to come up with a singular definition of what it means ...
11.09.2017 Why PMs need to be great writers – Evan Michner @ Atlassian Successful product managers = world-class communicators. It’s why much of a PM’s time is spent writing. Evan Michner, creative writer-turned-product manager, makes the case for why writing is a critical (and not-easy) skill for PMs to develop +...
10.26.2017 Burndown framework: An alternative to scrum – Matt Bilotti @ Drift Since adopting Burndown, Drift had increased revenue by 5x. Matt Bilotti talks to us about what Burndown is, how it differs from traditional agile and scrum methodologies, and how the framework amplifies Drift's customer-first approach to products.
10.11.2017 Making smarter decisions with machine learning – Inga Chen @ Squarespace Inga Chen walks us through when and how to prepare for machine learning, what to do with user feedback during the development process, and the probability of a model failing (hint: a machine learning model will always fail).
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