Productized Podcast

Rich has been doing enterprise/B2B product management since 1988, worked at 6 Silicon Valley startups, and has been an interim CPO or leadership coach for more than 200 large and small tech companies.

He wrote "The Art of Product Management" and was the Founder of Product Camp. Rich has taught at top business schools worldwide, at conferences, and chaired the first product manager/product owner tracks at the annual Agile Conference.

This episode dives into key topics:

**Early days of the Internet

**Life-Changing Moment

**Explaining the Role of the PM

**Addressing Roadmpa Amnesia

**Prioritizing on Business Objectives

**Dealing with Sales Requests

**Product Led Organizations

**Building Products that Generate Revenue

**Driving Business Strategy

**The Iterative Process of Strategy Development

**Understanding the Company Business Strategy

**Making Hard Decisions

Recommended Resources:

**What Do Product Leaders Do?** https://www.mironov.com/whatleadersdo/

**Business Cases Are Stories About Money** https://www.mironov.com/moneystories/

**Four Laws Of Software Economics** https://www.mironov.com/4laws1/

**Building and Scaling a Product Team (video)** https://www.mironov.com/prodanon/

Highlighted books:

Continuous Discover, Teresa Torres,

Outcomes vs Output, Josh Seiden,

Managing the Unmanageable, Ron Lichty

Anything from Jared Spool or Steve Blank or Holly Hester-Reilly

Where to find Rich Mironov:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richmironov/

Dragonboat Website: https://www.mironov.com/

Where to find us:

Website: https://productized.co/

Newsletter: http://bit.ly/3aMvWn2

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/produ

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productized.co/

Where to find Margarida:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarida-cosme-pereira/

Becky Flint is the founder and CEO of Dragonboat, the world’s 1st platform for outcome-focused product leaders and their teams.

With over 20 years of experience in the PM industry, Becky has built and scaled products and technology teams at Fortune 500 and fast-growing startups - such as Feedzai, Bigcommerce, Shutterfly, and PayPal.

Join host Andre Marquet as he uncovers Becky's inspiring journey through the tech industry, from breaking into PayPal to revolutionizing product portfolio management. This episode dives into key topics:

**Navigating a career shift into tech at PayPal

**Crafting effective product portfolio management in scale-ups

**Strategies for overcoming organizational hurdles as a PM

**Measuring success through an outcome-focused approach

**Lessons learned, and challenges conquered as a CEO

**Predictions and advice for aspiring product managers

Highlighted books:

**Escaping the Build Trap, Melissa Perri

**Product Operations: How successful companies build better products at scale, Melissa Perri & Denise-Tilles

**How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, Michael Gelb.

In this episode, we cover:

(01:40) Shifting from medical studies to the Tech industry

(07:29) Scaling PayPal’s international expansion

(12:10) Managing conflicting goals & metrics at PayPal

(16:57) Product portfolio management and resource allocation

(22:06) Product management strategies for limited resources

(24:42) Product management skills and organizational challenges

(29:23) Measuring success in outcome-focused organizations

(35:42) Applying past career lessons in building Dragonboat

(40:29) Challenges faced as a CEO at Dragonboat

(46:12) Future predictions for the product management field

(48:00) Becky's advice for entry-level product managers.

Where to find Becky Flint:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckyflint

Dragonboat Website: https://dragonboat.io/

Where to find us:

Website: https://productized.co/

Newsletter: http://bit.ly/3aMvWn2

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/produ…

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productized.co/

Where to find Andre:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marquet/

In this special episode of the Productized podcast, recorded at Productized Conference 2023. Join Product leader Inês Liberato in this roundtable discussion on the hot topic: "The Responsibility of AI: Who's Accountable for Predictive Model Results?"

Inês hosts an eye-opening chat with product experts Chiedza Muguti, João Freitas, & Elizabeth Immer, unpacking AI's responsibilities. They tackle vital questions about generative AI's rise, steps for companies to embrace AI responsibly, and the importance of hitting pause for deeper reflection.

Inês Liberato is a Product leader, Founding member at Women in Product UK, former Product and venture Coach and CPO at Founders Factory.

Elizabeth Immer is a Head of Product Acceleration & Strategy at Frontiers with a background in behavioural science.

Chiedza Muguti is a CPO at Alteos, Co-Founder of BlackInTech Berlin and a speaker, experienced in financial products and services.

João Freitas is an Executive Board Member at Cofidis Portugal, in charge of digital products and value creation at Cofidis.

Resources:

Find Inês on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inesliberato/

Find Chiedza on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiedzamuguti/

Find João on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joao-colaco-de-freitas-jcf/

Find Elizabeth on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizimmer/

Stay Updated:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/productizedconf

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productized.co/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/productized/

In this episode of the Productized podcast, our host Margarida Cosme speaks with Productized Conference 2023 speaker Magali Pelissier, Head of Product at SamKnows. Magali talks about what made her turn into product management. She also talks about her experience swimming in the channel and leaving Linkedin. We discussed some of the predictions for product management that she made on her podcast, Product Perspectives.

Resources:

Find Magali on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magali-pelissier/

Find Margarida on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarida-cosme-pereira/

Stay Updated: 

Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/productizedconf

Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/productized/

In this episode of the Productized podcast, our host Margarida Cosme speaks with Melissa Perri, author of the book Escaping the build trap. In this episode, Melissa deep dives into her extensive career and how the experience of being a software engineer and designer helped her become a better product leader. We also discuss escaping the build trap topic and what companies can do to become more outcome centric. Melissa talks about predictions over the last years and shares some trends she believes will become relevant in product management. I hope you enjoy this episode!

In this episode of the Productized podcast, Margarida speaks with Inês Liberato, Product & CPO Coach at Founders Factory. Inês explores her curious career path and shares how the role of women in tech is changing. She talks about the importance of building what matters and the need for accountability in AI. We hope you enjoy this conversation.

In this episode of the Productized podcast, Margarida speaks with Randy Silver, product consultant, and coach. Randy shares his original career path with the product manager and what he has learned that helped him succeed. He discusses his book and his most recent PM community, CPO circles. Randy deepens some of the topics of his articles, such as Twitter, Airbnb, and Tumblr product strategy. We hope you enjoy this conversation.

In this episode of the Productized podcast, Margarida speaks with Anabela Cesário, CPO at Outsystems. Anabela shares her career journey and some leadership insights. She also shares the challenge of dealing with the fear of public speaking and her techniques to overcome it. Anabela talks about Product operations and how to implement it within a company. I hope you enjoy the talk!

In this episode of the Productized podcast, Margarida speaks with Gonçalo Gaiolas, CPO at SoSafe. During the episode, Gonçalo shares his work experiences at OutSystems, the challenges of scaling it, and the importance of having empathy and passion for your work to achieve success as a PM. He also shares his gap year and the key takeaways from this incredible experience. By the end of the episode, he talks about the CPO role and its importance in an organization.

On the fourth episode of season 15 of the Productized Podcast, Margarida interviews Dominique Jost, head of product at Doist. Dominique has several years of experience building products and has been an active voice in discussing burnout. During our conversation, Dominique talks about the first years of his career. He also shares his burning-out experience and what he learned from it. Finally, Dominique discusses asynchronous communication and remote work and explains how they apply at Doist.