For free Product Management training, join us at Path2Product On today's episode, we get to hear from Jaudat Ali. Jaudat started as a startup founder before turning to PM, and now he works at Toggl Track as a Product Manager One of my favorite quotes from this conversation is: “You can’t understand customer problems unless you talk to them.” And we talk a little bit about how to get product management experience before you have the job....
Oct 25, 2021•35 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Jon shared a ton of great insights about discovery. Here are just a few of the points covered in this episode: The core skill to develop for discovery Using discovery to identify and enter new markets Balancing customer discovery w/ market discovery Build for markets, not for customers You’re not following the scientific method if you start with a hypothesis. You have to start with an observation. Hypotheses are only legit if they’re driven from an observation You can’t be emotionally attached t...
Oct 18, 2021•32 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode, Courtney shares how she got into Product and how her love for discovery started in her career before she got into Product. We talked a lot about diverse inputs, and we talked about what good discovery is NOT. Enjoy!
Oct 11, 2021•26 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast I would argue that Discovery is the MOST important part of product management, so I'm devoting a whole season to it. Let's go!
Oct 05, 2021•2 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast How often do I need to remind stakeholders about the product strategy? Can my product strategy be changed or tweaked based on market and customers needs? These are great questions I was asked recently in the Path2Product Community after one of our members finished the Product Strategy Development Course so I figured I'd share my answer with the entire Lessons in Product Management audience. ...
Sep 28, 2021•11 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Starting fast in your career or at a new company require you to know where to start. Join me in this episode to learn best practices on how to approach your first 30, 60, and 90 days as a PM at a new company. For free courses on Product Management, and the Product Strategy Development course I mentioned in the episode, join us at Path2Product for free! You can also find more content on our Path2Product YouTube Channel...
Sep 20, 2021•13 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Most Product Managers hate constraints. In this episode of Lessons in Product Management, I break down why that is and why that mentality is wrong. We also walk through some of the most commonly addressed constraints and the ones we probably don't spend enough time thinking through. Let's all step up our game as PMs as we walk through this weighty topic!
Sep 07, 2021•15 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Check out Moshe's book: The Resurrector Subscribe to the Path2Product YouTube Channel Join us at path2product.io for free courses, a growing community, and exclusive content
Aug 17, 2021•45 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Grab a copy of Product Sense on Amazon Check out the Path2Product YouTube Channel Leave us a voice message with feedback or donate to help support the podcast
Aug 10, 2021•53 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast To craft better solutions to customer problems, we have to precisely define the problems first. We discuss how to do this and why you need to tie the problems you choose to solve to the business objective you need to achieve. Join our product community on Path2Product and explore our various paid and free courses Subscribe to the Path2Product YouTube Channel for exclusive video content If you want to support the podcast, you can donate as little as .99 a month...
Aug 03, 2021•15 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast You don't manage stakeholders, but you NEED to management information and expectations. Period. Join our product community at Path2Product Subscribe to the YouTube channel And help support the podcast by donating .99 a month
Jul 29, 2021•5 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Is the dev team confused about the PRD you just handed them? Is what gets built different than what you intended? Either way... it's YOUR fault. It's our responsibility to ensure what we intend to communicate is received as intended. In this episode, I talk through some of the reasons why developers don't interpret requirements as you intended and what you can do about it. Join us on Path2Product for a great community, free courses, and an opportunity to gain the experience you need to lan...
Jul 26, 2021•11 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Join us on Path2Product Support the podcast for as little as .99 a month by donating
Jul 19, 2021•15 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast After the last two Monday episodes, I saw a gap in the discussion on "Testing in Production." This episode should close the loop by giving another view into productive ways to ship and test in a production environment. Join our community for free and paid courses, mentorship, and AMAs on Path2Product Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for exclusive content! You can donate as little as .99 a month to help support the podcast!...
Jul 12, 2021•9 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Shipping to production without validating that you're solving the right problem, or that your solution might solve it, creates a ton of risk in your launches. We don't want to test in production when our launches are littered with assumptions, but there are meaningful and useful ways to test assumptions and gain additional validation and insights from testing in production. Be sure to subscribe, and leave us a rating and review on iTunes Check out the YouTube channel and subscribe there as well ...
Jul 05, 2021•9 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Join our growing community of aspiring and seasoned PMs on Path2Product Subscribe to the YouTube Channel If you want to support the podcast, you can donate by clicking on the Support button here
Jul 01, 2021•28 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Join our community on Path2Product Subscribe to the YouTube channel for exclusive content If you're in the habit of simply prioritizing problems, coming up with solutions, and shipping those features, then you're missing a huge part of your job and putting your launches at greater risk of failure. Testing for desirability is key and knowing when to do it is vital! Follow, share, and rate and review the podcast to help others find us as we continue to bring you great content every week!...
Jun 28, 2021•7 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Deepti and I chat through our paths to product and how there's not one singular path to breaking into the field and how varied the role of product management can be. Join our community on Path2Product Subscribe to our Path2Product YouTube Channel
Jun 24, 2021•24 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Ever feel like your roadmap prioritization keeps getting upended due to feedback from customers and stakeholders? Don't let it. Join the path2product community here Subscribe to the YouTube Channel
Jun 21, 2021•11 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast This is the announcement of Season 3 of Lessons in Product Management! Join us on path2product Subscribe on YouTube
Jun 14, 2021•2 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is an excerpt from the Product Strategy Development course I built and published inside of the Path2Product platform. Enjoy! Download the Product Strategy Template Join us at Path2Product to see the rest of the course Subscribe to the Path2Product YouTube Channel so you don't miss exclusive content!...
Jun 01, 2021•6 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast To stay updated and see early drafts of the upcoming book, join us at Path2Product ! And be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel !
May 18, 2021•4 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Don't forget to subscribe on YouTube for exclusive content If you're looking to break into Product Management, join us at Path2Product to accelerate your career into Product To help support the podcast, you can donate here On today's episode, I welcome the one and only Bob Moesta to share how we can effectively align our organizations around the progress our customers are trying to make, that job to be done they hire our products for. Bob is a long-time builder and is famous for the work he did ...
May 10, 2021•37 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast If you're trying to get into Product Management, sign up for a free trial of our PM Certification for hands-on, practical PM experience at Path2Product Subscribe to the Path2Product YouTube Channel Help support the podcast by donating here Here's what we discussed: Lance is a PM at Vitruvi in B2B SaaS focused on the Construction Market If you're not following through on success, you've really lost sight on why you build product to begin with The problem with trying to call something successful i...
May 03, 2021•25 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Land your first PM role with Path2Product Subscribe to the YouTube channel here You can financially support us by donating Here's what we discussed: Rich's journey from Product Management at places like Disney, Johnson&Johnson, and startups to running his own Private Equity firm The value of communication skills and how leadership requires the ability to learn different languages. Not Spanish or French, but Finance, Marketing, etc. How Product demoing skills helps sell ideas to investors or ...
Apr 29, 2021•32 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast If you're an aspiring PM, be sure to sign up for Path2Product to get the hands-on experience you need to land your first PM role Also, be sure to grab a copy of Ajit's book, "Price to Scale" at Amazon: Price to Scale Book Here's what we discussed: Ajit's role with Narvar and his tenure in Silicon Valley, mostly in the CX space, all in SaaS At the end of the day, pricing really comes down to positioning The practice of mapping use cases to features to inform product packaging How Jobs-to-be-Done ...
Apr 26, 2021•17 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Join us for the live podcast and AMA sessions at path2product.io On today's episode, I had the pleasure of having Jorge Rodriguez Ramos, Head of Product at Femtasy, on the pod. We had a great chat about the characteristics of what makes a product great. This conversation stemmed from a fantastic article he wrote on the Mind the Product blog back in May of 2020, and I reached out to see if Jorge would be willing to connect and go deeper. Here's what we discussed: Jorge took his love for art...
Apr 19, 2021•28 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Grab your copy of the Career Clarity Cards from Groove to step up your career conversations game On today's episode, we decided to switch it up a bit. With the rise in popularity of platforms like Clubhouse and the popularity of AMA (ask me anything) sessions, I decided to start periodically running live podcast episodes with audience involvement. This was the first one, and I call these AMAA sessions (ask me almost) sessions, because we're going to focus on a particular topic. If you want to ge...
Mar 22, 2021•29 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast If you're trying to break into Product Management, sign up for the April Cohort of Jae Taylor's PM Career Accelerator today! On today's episode, I got to chat with Felix Watson Jr., Product Manager at Microsoft. With Microsoft's products being used by so many companies, I was curious to hear how Felix approached validating solutions at Scale, and he was kind enough to join the pod to discuss. And as an added bonus, Felix shared some killer advice for engineers looking to transition into Pr...
Mar 15, 2021•30 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast As we celebrate International Women's Day today, I'm super excited to have a woman on the podcast who is making waves in the world of Customer Success. On this episode of Lessons in Product Management, I have Bhavika Kochhar, a Customer Success Manager at Algonomy and she has been in similar roles for the last 5 years. She also a founder at IncustomerSuccess, CSLadies, the Bhavika&Lotte CS Chat Show and has many other initiatives in the works in her continued dedication to the field of Custo...
Mar 08, 2021•29 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 
