Productized Podcast

Kandis O’Brien the co-founder of The SIX, a strategy and innovation consultancy that empowers enterprise clients like Google, Salesforce and Cisco and pioneering startups like Alucio to ideate, collaborate and execute quickly and efficiently for sustainable growth. Kandis is passionate about helping organizations build better products, services and organizational cultures. She helps to leverage human-centred approaches including Design and Vision Sprints. She is also the organizer of Design Sprint NY City, the official Google Design Sprints Global Chapter community for practitioners and facilitators.

Show Notes:

How is Kandis O’Brien dealing with the Covid’ pandemic impact on work and routine - [1:30]

Work- Life Balance? Absolutely not! But people have found ways to be kind to each other and to be more flexible about schedules and interruptions - [5:05]

Running the NY City Marathon- [6:56]

What led Kandis to enter the world of Product Management? From Marketing to Product - [7:54]

Kandis Experience in her company The SIX - [10:55]

What have you learned about your leadership style – strengths or weaknesses – and how do you use those insights to be better? - [13:40]

What is the most common problem, you see on a daily basis? - [16:00]

Customer and market insights to make strategic decisions - [18:54]

What MVP is going to allow you to deliver value quickly, to test your assumptions and to gain directional Insight? - [21:17]

Difference between B2B Products and B2C Products - [23:33]

Designing digital products vs physical products - [28:00]

Redesign Your Organization for Innovation - [31:59]

Kandis Bucket List - [36:00]

Q&A: How does Design Thinking and Sprints help build scalable Products? Do these techniques apply to Platform Products? - [37:17]

[02:07] Covid's impact on Gibson's work and routine.

[4:10] Ask Gib - Gibson's new creative endeavors.

[4:38] Self-improvement opportunities Gibson found on a climbing expedition in Alaska. Climb Mount Hayes, which is a 14,000-foot peak in the middle of Alaska

[5:10] Lesson 1 from the climbing expedition

[7:11] What Led Gibson's Career Toward Product?

[9:05] Six key ideas of Leadership

[10:44] "Don't worry too much about your weaknesses. Companies are hiring you for your superpowers, those two key skills that really make you special."

[11: 55 ] Hacking your product leader career Masterclass with Gibson Biddle

[15: 29 ] Personal board of directors - a collection of mentors and peers that you can talk

[18: 35 ]How to build my personal board of directors?

[24: 00 ] Advice for people aspiring to become VP of Product

[26: 12] Cross-functional leadership

[28: 12] "The job of a product leader is to delight customers in hard to copy margin, enhancing ways and margin Hanson just means make money"

[33:57] Netflix culture

[35:17] Product management strengths and or disruptions for this year and next year

[39:24] How do you discover your superpowers?

"What are you so passionate about that you think about it two in the morning and that will drive your intellectual curiosity, your persistence. That's what makes people great at their job!"

[45:55] "How do I feel about my relationships, community, and social?

How do I feel about the degree that I can set my own course for autonomy?

How do I feel about the opportunity for mastery and learning in my job? How do I feel about my opportunity and doing my job to provide purpose and meaning?"

[47:10] How to Define Your Product Strategy

Teresa Torres teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage start-ups to global enterprises and has taught over 6500 product people core discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy. She’s the author of the upcoming book, Continuous Discovery Habits and blogs at ProductTalk.org.

Dan Olsen is a product management trainer, consultant, and author. At Olsen Solutions, he works with CEOs and product leaders to build strong product teams. His clients include Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Box, and Walmart. Dan is the author of the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook. Prior to consulting, Dan was a product leader at Intuit and several startups. Dan lives in Silicon Valley, where he founded the monthly Lean Product Meetup which has over 10,000 members.

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👉 Show Notes

[02:20] Covid’s impact on Dan Olsen’s work and routine.

[03:20] Countries where Dan sees most Product Culture Growth

[04:25] Who should read “the lean product playbook” today? Who is the book addressing today?

[08:40] Dan’s thoughts on the emergence of No Code.

[09:24] How to Build the Right Think for the Right People

[11:30] The beginning of Dan’s career, in the defense industry, designing nuclear submarines, the Virginia class submarine.

[17:24] How does product management in large firms like Google and Apple, differ from product management in other environments, and should the philosophy be the same?

[21:26] Tips for people that want to get into product.

[24:43] The Lean UX meetup in Silicon Valley organized by Dan Olsen

[28:50] Q&A: Using Product Management Tools to Design Great Customer Experience

[34:53] Q&A: Changing the mindset on the importance of PMs. How do we convince them to kind of give this opportunity to get more people to falling into the role earlier on, and not just when there’s already chaos?

[40:30] Values design brings to the product and users' experience.

[41:45] Q&A: Breaking into Product Management Roles: Product Manager vs Product Owner

[45:00] Best interface to merge startups

[41:45] Breaking into Product Management Roles: Europe vs the US

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Paul is the ex-Chief Product Officer at Joyn.de, the streaming platform launched in Germany in June 2019. Paul has experience building and growing teams and products (from 0 to 10M+ MAUs) at Rocket Internet, namshi.com, and joyn.de and managing products at scale at the Play Store and on Google.com Search. Paul's background is mostly in consumer (e-commerce), media streaming, and search, with experience using ML to practically unlock user value.

Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built; two of these were companies she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies and speaks at conferences around the world. She founded Radical Product Thinking as a movement of leaders creating vision-driven change and is the author of an upcoming book titled Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. It's scheduled for launch in September 2021. She speaks nine languages while learning her tenth. Her work as a product leader is also heavily influenced by my having lived and worked around the world. Radhika has lived in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. In her book, Radhika will bring this global perspective.

Check Her Masterclass: https://bit.ly/3tVafJj

Do you want to start in the Tech industry and looking for a piece of advice? Listen to this podcast and get to know Carey Jenkins, CEO at Substantial. Carey went from journalism to CEO of a Tech Company. She is originally from Louisiana, spent formative years in New York and New Orleans before finding a home in Seattle. That's where she becomes a Tech woman. Carey is a people-focused CEO, she believes that healthy relationships are the foundation of any successful team project. She cares about ethics and Technology and the intersection between them. She also published a framework for more Ethical Innovation. Carey believes in the importance of focusing on Growth. And that's her main goal in her career that she focused on. And if she is not in Substantial, she is spending her quality time with her husband and daughter. Find out more about her and her path to becoming a Tech woman in our podcast. Enjoy!

Although Outsystems is an example of Low Code, the focus of the company is not on code but on PRODUCTIVITY. Creating platforms that have an impact on teams, Low code is one way to achieve this goal but during the interview, Gonçalo showed us other strategies from AI to software automation.

Listen to this #GirlsWhoProduct podcast! Rute Costa, Head of Product at Farfetch, studied Economics in Lisbon. She became passionate about Technology during college, when a friend introduced her to Internet applications. She started to work as a consultant for a firm specialized in strategy and product for Telco companies. Later on, she worked with global teams and ended up in the fashion industry. Rute is currently Head of Product at Farfetch, where she enjoys working in a Platform leader for Luxury Products and the state of the art technology and product practice. When she is not at work, she loves spending time with her two kids as well as reading books and travelling.

Listen to this podcast and get to know Anabela Cesário, Director of the Product Operations team at Outsystems. She arrived at OutSystems in 2016 to bootstrap the Product Ownership practice, leading 14 Product Owners before moving to Product Management. As a leader, Anabela is energetic, empathetic, goal-oriented, and always optimistic about the future. When she is not in the office you can find her practicing yoga, jogging, traveling, and reading. Her next goal - on her bucket list for a long time - is to learn to play the guitar.