C. Todd Lombardo is the VP of Product and Experience at Openly. C. Todd and Melissa discuss product research–a key combination of user research, market research, and analytics–and how product managers can better implement research practices into their organizations. If you want to learn more about how to conduct successful research for your product, this is the episode to listen to.
Read MoreIn this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about managing roles that you don’t have expertise in yourself, setting yourself up for success in the first 90 days of a new job, and thinking about what comes next after a career in product management.
“Digital transformation isn’t, ‘up the IT budgets and sprinkle software in everything.’ It’s organizations waking up to the fact that, ‘hey we are now a technology company. We used to be a bank, and now it’s impossible to be a bank without delivering everything we do over technology.’”
Read MoreIn this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about product best practices relating to MVPs, nonprofits, and customer behavior.
"At the end of the day, people are not there forever, but the culture is. And the culture describes the company’s values, and those values describe the skills and behaviors of everybody in the building." - Gib Biddle
Read MoreIn this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about the design and strategy in building the best product teams.
The theme of this week’s Product Thinking Podcast is transformation, and Melissa’s guest is Brian Bhuta, Chief Product Officer at Signify Health. Brian is an experienced product leader and is passionate about establishing and scaling product management organizations in an agile environment. He’s also an expert at getting tricky or resistant stakeholders on his side.
In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers listeners’ questions about how to broach tricky subjects with leadership.
Read MoreMelissa Perri welcomes Ben Foster - Chief Product Officer at Whoop and author of Building What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management - to this week’s Product Thinking Podcast. Ben is an experienced product leader who teaches the value of vision to help us craft the right strategy and achieve our desired outcomes. He joins Melissa to discuss the framework he details in his book and what makes a great vision.
In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers listeners’ questions about internal products and prioritization.
Read MoreBeing product-led means “infusing the entire company with this idea that it's more efficient for everyone to really execute on a really great product that pulls itself forward. And if you can do that then your ability to make profit actually increases” - Oji Udezue
In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers listeners’ questions about product transformation.
Read MoreKate Leto joins Melissa Perri to talk about some of the challenges in filling product management roles that companies run into all the time, and how to overcome them.
Read MoreIn this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about transitioning into product management.
Read MoreGeorgie, the CPO at TIER Mobility and former CPO at N26, talks with Melissa about her experiences setting product strategy as a CPO, how to get that strategy off the ground, and why setting a strong strategy is just the beginning. Trust us, she's someone you'll want to learn from.
Read MoreMelissa answers 3 questions all about your experience with product strategy. We'll get into whether or not its possible to "bubble up" a product strategy from the product manager level, how to look at business goals versus customer outcomes, and the pitfalls of confusing product strategy with a pre-defined plan.
Read MoreMelissa kicks off the Product Thinking podcast with Barry, an incredible entrepreneur, business advisor, and bestselling author of two product management books we swear by. We compare notes on how we each define strategy, why good strategy means saying no, what a strong product strategy actually looks like, and so much more.
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