Product Warrior Podcast

As a lean startup coach, Tristan Kromer coaches innovation and product teams to run at least one experiment/research per week to improve their product and business model. His team at Kromatic support engagements with large enterprises. In this podcast we chat with Tristan to get his insights and framing of using lean methodology in day to day product management. 

Listen to James give tips on how to use the prototype to make hard decisions.  Well designed prototypes and user tests can inform the decision to keep going or to kill an idea early. The financial value to learn early your going down the wrong road is big. Prototyping helped move away from waterfall specification documents to an agile approach to get users involved in the conversation early. Wireframes through to interactive prototypes enable rapid learnings to impact the product decisions. The prototype isn’t just valuable for learnings but key to good stakeholder management in the typical hub and spoke product management model.   

Episode 3 Things product managers forget, with Mark Rogers released 23rd February 2018, supported by MindTheProduct and Knowit.   In this weeks Product Warrior podcast we speak with Mark Rogers, Senior Product Manager at Grapeshot.    Mark shares with us stories from his time as senior product manager at BrandWatch involving the launch of a new image recognition based service using latest AI techniques. 

In this weeks Product Warrior podcast titled “Adopting a product” we speak with Janna Bastow co founder of ProdPad. As always a big thank you to Mind The Product and KnowIt for supporting us. Managing a product that has a bunch of customers is not easy, there will be constraints, tech debt and a messy backlog of features with stakeholder expectations. Janna shares her advice on how to navigate these challenges and continue to innovate.

In episode 1 of Product Warrior Podcast I am joined by John Cutler the well known product manager and medium author. We discuss the challenges of continuous improvement and share techniques to align teams and stakeholders to discover true value. Thanks to KnowIt and MindTheProduct for their support with this podcast. John explains how key it is for product managers to step back to evaluate the problem space, and then delve into the detail to make think releases of high value. The discussion highlights how critical understanding the user problem is, in being able to provide powerful solutions to delight customers. With a hat tip to Jeff Patton, we promote the user story mapping technique to manage thin heuristic releases of value and how to measure their success. The show ends with discussion about how belief maps can be used and evolved to collaborate on risk taking to drive product value forwards. Please remember to subscribe and never miss a show.