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Nancy Neumann and Lisa Young
ITX Corp.

  Strong leadership and eager collaboration serve as the hallmarks in the long list of contributions made by ITX veterans and Vice Presidents Nancy Neumann and Lisa Young, the company’s most recent additions to its Board of Directors. In this special edition of the Product Momentum Podcast, Sean and Paul welcome fellow ITX leaders Lisa …

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Nancy Neumann and Lisa Young
ITX Corp.

40 / How A Well-Told Story ‘Weaves In Your Why’

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Mark Cruth
Atlassian

The simple act of storytelling helps the audience believe that the story is actually happening to them. Whether you’re pitching a product idea to a group of users or to your team, the well-told story resonates, and Mark Cruth proves this. It identifies the key players. It describes the conflict. And as the plot unfolds, …

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Mark Cruth
Atlassian

39 / Behavioral Science and Product Design

Nate-Andorsky
Nate Andorsky
Creative Science

As product builders, we use data science and behavioral science to help us design software solutions that line up with our users’ initial intent. Data science helps us understand who’s likely to take some action. Behavioral science looks at the factors that drive us to take action in the first place. With so many inputs …

Nate-Andorsky
Nate Andorsky
Creative Science

38 / How To Recapture Lost Innovation ROI

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Mark Zawacki
650 Labs

Investment in innovation will bring business energy, they say, and will enable new revenue growth. It will lead to more efficient business operation and will deepen your brand’s hold on existing clients while attracting more prospects. And investment in innovation will help level up your team’s skill set. Investment in innovation is a necessary condition …

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Mark Zawacki
650 Labs

37 / Validate and Verify the Customer Voice

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Ash Maurya
LEANSTACK

Whatever we think we know about our users doesn’t always hold true when we release our products into the wild. Faced with compressed cycle times and pressure to release something, product managers sometimes fall in love with a product only later to discover we were among the few who did. Our mistake isn’t being passionate …

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Ash Maurya
LEANSTACK

36 / Shaping the Product Manager’s Prime Directive

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Michael Sacca
Dribbble

What is the product manager’s prime directive? Most would argue we’re here to make the world a better place through the software products we create. But what do we do when we see product decisions being made that conflict with that directive, that cause us to manipulate users to our benefit instead of inspire them …

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Michael Sacca
Dribbble

35 / Building the Solutions the World Needs

Christopher-O'Donnell
Christopher O'Donnell
HubSpot

  In this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast, Sean and Paul welcome Christopher O’Donnell, Chief Product Officer at HubSpot. Their conversation kicks off with a discussion of Trust, closes with Christopher’s definition of Innovation, and checks nearly every box in the product manager playbook along the way. In a lively give-and-take that combines big …

Christopher-O'Donnell
Christopher O'Donnell
HubSpot

34 / Product Managers ‘Change the World’

Adrienne-Tan
Adrienne Tan
Brainmates

  Change the world. It’s a pretty tall order, even for today’s modern product leaders. But that’s precisely what product managers do, according to Adrienne Tan, who joins Sean and Paul in this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast. Co-founder and CEO of Brainmates, Adrienne Tan is a pioneer in the world of modern product …

Adrienne-Tan
Adrienne Tan
Brainmates

33 / Learn Fast, Learn Well With Experimentation

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Holly Hester-Reilly
H2R Product Science

  Experimentation is not about right or wrong. It’s about learning things that you genuinely didn’t know. The secret is to become comfortable with the uncomfortable and to make room for your own sense of vulnerability, says Holly Hester-Reilly. When you’re able to embrace not knowing something, or have experiments come back that disprove your …

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Holly Hester-Reilly
H2R Product Science

32 / Take An Objective Approach to Prioritization

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Jeff Lash
Forrester

A lot of times product managers take a overly narrow view of prioritization without giving full consideration to the impact of decisions we make. Whether to add another new feature to our backlog – and which one? Is there a new market segment we should explore? Do we need a new vision for our product? …

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Jeff Lash
Forrester

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