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118 / Empathy, Transparency, and Intentionality in Product Management, with Devan Goldstein

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Devan Goldstein
Trello

Success as a product manager requires finding the right balance between solving user problems and meeting rigid business demands. For Devan Goldstein, a Group Product Manager at Trello (an Atlassian product), “product management’s fundamental accountability is to ensure that the business gets what it needs out of the teams it has put in place to …

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Devan Goldstein
Trello

117 / Re-Imagining the Future of Product, with Erica Orange

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Erica Orange
The Future Hunters

Vision and Strategy are terms often used interchangeably. It’s easy to do, especially when the future is racing toward us. But when we conflate the notion of vision and strategy — as Eastman Kodak learned the hard way years ago — we confuse our objective with the path to achieving it. How can we adjust …

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Erica Orange
The Future Hunters

116 / Innovate with Empathy: Unpacking Trauma-Informed Design, with Matt Bernius

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Matt Bernius
Code for America

It can be overwhelming to think about all of the impacts – both positive and negative – that our products might have on those who use them. In this episode, Paul is joined by Matt Bernius, friend of ITX and Principal User Researcher at Code for America. Matt discusses trauma-informed design in an approachable way …

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Matt Bernius
Code for America

115 / How Emotional Intelligence Drives Product Success, with Kate Leto

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Kate Leto
Product Coach, Consultant

For years product management’s “hard skills” have gotten much of the spotlight, maybe because they’re easier to get our arms around. But as product management coach and consultant Kate Leto explains, the conversation seems to be shifting toward product leadership’s more elusive collection of “soft skills,” which she refers to as emotional intelligence. In this …

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Kate Leto
Product Coach, Consultant

114 / Building Authentic Communities: Gen Z Leads the Way, with Alex Crandall

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Alex Crandall
Landing

Imagine a world where you can just be yourself. Where you can be safe and be expressive and be just how you want to show up and not be worried about being judged for it. This is the sort of community that Landing product designer Alex Crandall is helping to build. It’s a refreshing world …

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Alex Crandall
Landing

113 / Embracing Human Complexity in Product Management, with Matt LeMay

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Matt LeMay
Sudden Compass

The myth of product management is that human complexity can be reduced to a manageable framework, one that lets us show up for work feeling confident and comfortable and ready to take on the world. Not so fast, says Matt LeMay, internationally recognized product leader, consultant, and author of Agile for Everybody and Product Management …

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Matt LeMay
Sudden Compass

112 / Beyond the Handoff Culture: How To Collaborate in a Post-Pandemic World, with Gavin Deadman

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Gavin Deadman
Flutter Entertainment

Product teams emerging from 3 years of remote-work hibernation are now living through what Gavin Deadman calls the “handoff culture.” Acquisition marketer turned product management coach, Gavin supports a product team of 150 product managers and product leaders within the division of Flutter International and Flutter Entertainment. A prolific blogger, Gavin’s writing is must-read content …

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Gavin Deadman
Flutter Entertainment

111 / Using Data to Inform Design, with Krissi Xenakis & Jocelyne Dittmer

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Krissi Xenakis & Jocelyne Dittmer
SVA / IBM

The world may be shrinking, but it doesn’t always feel that way. As product design leaders Krissi Xenakis and Jocelyne Dittmer explain, it’s more important than ever to get aligned around culture and craft, balancing the needs of the business with the needs of the team. Especially with remote and distributed teams, collaboration around complementary …

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Krissi Xenakis & Jocelyne Dittmer
SVA / IBM

110 / Futures Thinking and UX Design, with Phil Balagtas

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Phil Balagtas
HABITAT

For more than a decade, Futures Design thinker Phil Balagtas has been developing tools for fusing the concepts of strategic foresight and speculative design with traditional design strategy. On June 22-23 at the ITX Product + Design Conference, he’ll share many of these insights. In a Day 1 workshop and Day 2 keynote, Phil will …

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Phil Balagtas
HABITAT

109 / Co-creation in the Age of Digital Transformation, with Yuting Chu

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Yuting Chu
Product Manager & Consultant

Though product management remains a relatively young profession, the pandemic-induced digital transformation has accelerated its maturation at a rate far faster than it would have otherwise. Yuting Chu believes this phenomenon has positioned product managers to take a more entrepreneurial approach to product development – one that incorporates the experiences of all stakeholders, called co-creation. …

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Yuting Chu
Product Manager & Consultant

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