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In this episode: - Why qualitative insights are as essential as data to product teams - A new method for launching ethnographic research on demand - The simplest, most underused approach for building better teams

In this episode: - The Art of Decomposition - Vendor Anti-Patterns in Agile - One Word to Ban

In this episode: - Having a healthy dose of curiosity - Leveraging massive data sets and hacking major growth - Unique tactics for building a marketplace business

In this episode: - Dissecting the IBM ecosystem - Radical collaboration - Introduction to the APM Program

In this episode: - How to apply pivots to your own career strategy - The humble spirit of Chicago's PM community - Practical advice for managing a globally distributed team

In this episode: - The difference between practicing process and learning process - Why it's so hard to be experimental in a waterfall environment - Working the job that you have and the job that you want - True stories from riding Groupon's growth wave

In this episode: - Why every company should have their own API - Assessing the impact of change - Exploring the myth of the "full stack developer" - Tips for keeping good developer team relations

In this episode: - Managing the hardware product development cycle - The importance of collecting feedback that ISN'T tied to your product - How to effectively pivot once you've already shipped thousands of units

In this episode: - A brief history of Extreme Programming (XP) - Shifting enterprise from a project mindset to a product mindset - Seeding a process-oriented company culture

In this episode: - Technical debt and the cost of change - The future of online advertising - Reaping rewards through persistence

In this episode: - "Your ideas suck" and how to get over it - How to lead by influence - The essential PM skill you can learn in couples' therapy

In this episode: - Explicit expectations vs implicit - how is PM success truly measured? - Get a PM job by thinking of yourself as the problem - Leveling up the global potential

In this episode: - Taking customer experience to the next level - A brief history of internet music startups - Diplomats, detectives and warriors

In this episode: - What is Customer Development and why it's critical - The benefits of bootstrapping your business - When Founders need to hire Product Managers

In this episode: - Intro to "growth hacking" - Getting out of the building - The importance of "telescoping"

In this episode: - Starting with passion - Conscientious career pivoting - Getting your foot in the door

In this episode: - The power of paper prototypes - Scaling lean - Projects that can change the world

In this episode: - The art of faking it til you make it - How content really gets made (the good, the bad and the ugly) - Pros and cons of insourcing content production

In this episode: - Balancing strategy and tactics - Leveraging your past skills to find PM success - Learning to be imperfect - Filling the gaps

In this episode: - How product roadmaps get built - Persuading executives with data, not force - The right time to hire a Data Scientist - Comparing LA tech to SF tech - How to get hired at Dollar Shave Club

In this episode: - Building for speed and for scale - Mastering UX Design in 30 minutes - Applying Agile to romantic relationships

In this episode: - A plea for female product managers to join the fun (and the uncensored truth about why the field is still male-dominated) - Why you can't be commitment-phobic when roadmapping enterprise products - Seeking wisdom in the fountain of youth, Neko Atsume and Venmo

The biggest challenge Andrew and his team at Inspire face today is learning how to leverage effective product management strategies to roadmap, market and sell "invisible" services. In today's conversation, we talk about the Swiss Army approach to getting hired and six other Product Manager molds, Andrew's best friend "Eric," as well as how to deploy experiments when there's no code involved and "humble Product Management."

In this episode: - Using SEO to build a content strategy that works - How to tackle analytics and the power of lean metrics - One critical piece of advice for not going down with a sinking ship

A veteran of the LA tech scene lays down hard truths about why many companies should never get funded, the real reason there are so many job openings in product management, and how to succeed with nothing but the powers of persuasion.

In this episode: 1. Focusing on the right things at the right time 2. Turning condescension into motivation 3. How to get the job, learn the job and love the job

"For me that was a very hard thing to let go of. Like the fact that oh, it has to be perfect and then we put it out. Because that's the way I was used to with packaging. That's the way I worked with packaging or with exhibition. Like, you can't hang this on the wall if it's not perfect. You can't have people come and look at this beautiful exhibition if it's not well put together and everything is in its right place, so I looked at product the same way. Then I realized that it's not that way. It's okay to put something out and see what happens." In this episode: * Putting the user first - how to negotiate the needs of advertisers without disruping the reader experience * Cool tools for design, prototyping and managing feature releases * Learning to let go of perfection

100 PM sat down with Tyler Adams - winner of The Amazing Race and Senior Product Manager at BCG Digital Ventures to talk all about "Intrapreneurship" and how businesses can leverage existing data, customers and assets to create new products that drive growth.

In our eighth episode we talked to industry veteran Natacha Gaymer-Jones about: * The business of launching a product * Why “validated learning” is essential to success – whether or not your company is funded * How even product experts fall victim to the trap of “starting with solution” * The ugly truth about startup success (it’s rarer than the media will have you think) If you’re looking for a fresh, female perspective on entrepreneurship and perseverance, tune in now.

If you're looking for Kellin Haley you're most likely to find her: on a surfboard, on a motorcycle, running product at NBCUniversal. Haley is a self-described "minimum viable product manager." In this episode she tells me what that means, as well as the naked truth about how to get founders to "give up their baby" to a product manager; the myth of "if you build it, they will come;" and things every man should know about working with women

"When I was an executor I was an asshole. I was on the bottom floor being the bulldog saying, I want it now. I want it this way," she tells me. "Now it's, Where do you think we can go? How are we going to get there? There's a lot more 'we' that happens." We're speaking of lessons learned on the job and advice from Simon Sinek's latest book, Leaders Eat Last, and we're laughing, a lot.

The first product Jacobo Plu built was a hemp bicycle frame using soybean oil resin. Today he is among of the founding four at Yoi (alongside Keith Ferrazzi, enigmatic entrepreneur, author and former CMO of Deloitte and Starwood Hotels) — a human resources technology company now with 22+ employees; a little engine that could, and did, and is.

Chris Brereton got his start in product management as the lead screamer for the band Avarice. “The process for me is very much the same [as being in a band], where you’ve got multiple people with multiple talents that have to somehow come together and work on their instruments or their talents in harmony and come out with some product, or song, or record, and hope that somebody enjoys it enough to buy it.”

Armen Daniyelian doesn’t mind that our recording room is a little chilly — “I’m Russian, so I’m used to it.”

Liam Oliver might be the only product manager who moonlights as a professional hockey referee. He’s certainly the first person I’ve heard use refereeing as analogy for validated learning...

In this epsiode: - Why routine and mindfulness matter - Conducting thoughtful market research - The power of curiosity