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68 / Design Thinking’s Double-Edged Sword

Scott Berkum Guest Speaker at Product Momentum Podcast
Scott Berkun
Author, Speaker

For people who love their work as much as UX designers do, it can be easy to get “lost in the sauce,” tackling projects for the love of the craft as opposed to applying your craft to solving complex problems for the benefit of others. Scott Berkun describes how design thinking helps keep us centered …

Scott Berkum Guest Speaker at Product Momentum Podcast
Scott Berkun
Author, Speaker

67 / Innovation Through Digital Anthropology

Ali Colleen Neff Guest Speaker Product Momentum Podcast
Ali Colleen Neff
Anaplan

For product people, a big part of the job is understanding not only what motivates our users, but also the systems they are tied to – and how those two things tie together. As it turns out, the bond that connects them is formed by the tools we build and the best practices we develop …

Ali Colleen Neff Guest Speaker Product Momentum Podcast
Ali Colleen Neff
Anaplan

65 / The Creation of Culture as a Competitive Advantage

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Chalmers Brothers
Author, Speaker, Leadership Coach

What job are product leaders really paid to do? When you boil it all down, leaders are paid to deliver results. Quantitative, which many believe are more easily measured. And qualitative, which invites the notion of organizational culture: much more difficult to measure, but more important in today’s world than ever before, Chalmers Brothers claims. …

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Chalmers Brothers
Author, Speaker, Leadership Coach

66 / Key Elements that Foster the Product Mindset

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Marc Abraham
ASOS

There is an ongoing evolution in organizations toward an emphasis on the customer experience with your product versus a steady delivery of flashy new features. The former focuses on outcomes, known by Marc Abraham as “product mindset.” The latter embraces outputs, perhaps better known as “feature bloat” or “experience rot.” In this episode of the …

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Marc Abraham
ASOS

64 / Managing User Feedback to Prioritize Your Product Roadmap

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Keith Frankel
Parlor

Product leaders need to be astute prioritizers. That means we have to say no – a lot. To the sales rep begging us to build “the next big thing.” And to the customer account rep pleading for a flashy new feature. The response from Keith Frankel to these cries for help is, “Make your case. …

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Keith Frankel
Parlor

63 / Unlock Your Inner Genius

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Shawn Livermore
Product Perfect

Attaining so-called “genius status” – Mozart, Steve Jobs, Einstein spring to mind – seems untouchable to us mere mortals. Or is it. As product people, we have more genius within us than we give ourselves credit for, Shawn Livermore says. In this episode of the Product Momentum Podcast, Sean and Matt are joined by Shawn …

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Shawn Livermore
Product Perfect

Blazing the Path to Product-Market Fit: Dan Olsen

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Full disclosure. Technically speaking, I don’t claim to know anything. Okay, that may not be entirely true. There’s a lot of knowledge I’ve gained through experience. But not much else of what I truly know is (what I would call) organic; most of what I know I’ve learned from others.

For example, I’m not a technologist by training or trade. In the same way my knowledge of automobiles is limited to their operation (but not to their repair), my knowledge of how software product people work their magic is, shall we say, “well contained.” But that doesn’t mean I haven’t noticed how they effortlessly convert user insight and market data into a product vision to make our world a better place. I stand in awe of the designers and developers who translate that vision into problem-solving software products. My brain isn’t wired to work that way, but thank goodness our world is populated with a community of technology artists whose brains are.

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ITX Product Momentum Podcast – Episode 12: Treating Your Product Community Like a Product

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When you’re building software products, do you think only about adding features? Or do you think in terms of hiring your software products to solve a problem you have? Context is critical. Consider new products – and their features – in the same way you would new employees. What problems am I hiring them to solve? What will be my return on investment?
In this episode, Sean and Joe chat with Mike Belsito, a startup product and business developer with a rich background in creating big, important things out of nothing. Mike co-founded Product Collective, now a 20,000-member community of like-minded product people. He conceived the idea to help folks like himself navigate this untamed wilderness called product management. Out of Product Collective Mike spawned INDUSTRY – in just its fifth year it’s already one of the largest product management summits anywhere in the world.

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