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Product Momentum Podcast: continuous learning from the best minds in product leadership

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

31 / How To Get The Positioning Right

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April Dunford
Consultant, Author, Speaker

In tech, as in life, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. That might be one of the coolest aspects about building super-exciting software products. There’s any number of ways to get the job done. As product people, we lend our education, our experience, and our intuition to improving people’s lives. Our varied …

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April Dunford
Consultant, Author, Speaker

30 / Essential Components of Product Culture

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Bruce McCarthy
Product Culture

Before we jump headlong into implementing Lean or Agile. Before we decide that OKRs offer the best chance to set goals and measure results. And before we determine that a particular design methodology will lead us to successful product development, product leaders need to understand the “underlying cultural things about teams and about companies that …

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Bruce McCarthy
Product Culture

29 / Empathy is the Catalyst for Innovation

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Saleema Vellani
Innovazing

Design thinking calls on product people to put themselves in their customer’s shoes. To empathize with them. Saleema Vellani agrees, but adds that empathy is borne out of self-awareness and that understanding others requires us first to understand ourselves.  In this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast, Sean and Paul welcome Saleema Vellani, author of the …

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Saleema Vellani
Innovazing

28 / Savvy PMs Engage All Their Audiences

Rich Mironov
Product Coach, Writer, Speaker

  It was the best of jobs; it was the worst of jobs. (apologies to Mr. Dickens) While everyone else has carved out their own place in the organization, the product manager is the person nobody works for. And who, it often seems, works for everybody else. But their role also puts them at the …

Rich Mironov
Product Coach, Writer, Speaker

27 / Product Success Starts with a Clear Vision

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Radhika Dutt
Radical Product Thinking

A product’s vision communicates the change we want to bring to the world. It starts with why, but in the same breath also answers for whom. That’s why a great vision statement is outwardly focused. Product teams craft them not to declare our own goals and aspirations, but to focus attention and energy around the …

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Radhika Dutt
Radical Product Thinking

26 / Empowered Teams Build the Best Products

Marty Cagan
Silicon Valley Product Group

  The difference between the best product companies and the rest is pretty stark. And you don’t have to wait until the end of the fiscal quarter to figure which is which. Those lagging indicators will tell you only what happened. Past tense. On the other hand, if you’re more interested in what will happen, …

Marty Cagan
Silicon Valley Product Group

25 / 5 Ways That Trust Inspires Innovation

Stephen M. R. Covey

Trust is the ultimate collaboration tool. So says Stephen M. R. Covey, who joins Sean and Paul on this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast. In fact, trust is so vital that innovation cannot occur in its absence. Trust inspires innovation, which Stephen sees as a “continuum of staying current and relevant with our product …

Stephen M. R. Covey

24 / How to Overcome Barriers to Innovation

Jake Knapp
Designer, Author, Person

Product people chase innovation. Sometimes we grow frustrated by how much time it takes “to get there” and how many barriers to innovation stand in our way. We’ve been led to believe that sprinting as fast as we can toward innovation will help us catch that lightning in a bottle. All the while failing to …

Jake Knapp
Designer, Author, Person

23 / The Product Leader’s Path To High Performance

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Richard Banfield
InVision

  As a community, have we gotten better at product leadership? The answer depends on who we ask and what we use to measure performance. In this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast, Sean and Paul pose the question to Richard Banfield, VP of Design Transformation at InVision. “A lot depends how much you are …

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Richard Banfield
InVision

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