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Rachel Wynn is a B2B SaaS product leader with over a decade of experience in product strategy. Rachel has a proven track record of bringing new products to market and managing complex enterprise products and has helped numerous clients think more strategically, de-risk decision-making, and find product-market fit faster. As an experienced product manager, she has worked at companies at various stages, from bootstrapped to venture capital-backed, private equity funded, and public. She has also experienced acquisition and IPO exits, served on a board of directors, served as a pitch judge for an innovation challenge, and founded companies. With a background in managing road mapping software at ProductPlan and product analytics software at Quantum Metric, Rachel has interviewed hundreds of product teams, making her an authority in product vision and strategy, product road mapping, 0-1 product thinking, interviewing customers, customer discovery and validation, product innovation, product launch and go-to-market planning, product analytics, stakeholder communication, pricing and packaging, research and discovery, and customer-centric products. In her spare time, Rachel is a bookworm and she's always ready to recommend a great read.    Today, Rachel joins me to discuss how research-driven innovation can help teams create something new. She explains how research-driven innovation lessens your risk of failure and allows teams to make solid decisions. We discuss the importance of having a clear vision and why that vision needs to include all the problems you're currently trying to solve. Rachel shares her approach to research in product management and how her background as a cognitive rehabilitation therapist informed her process. She emphasizes the importance of customer interviews, learning from your customers, and paying attention to what your competitors are doing. Rachel also outlines the research and feedback cycle and how to know when you've provided your customers with the most valuable solution.   “People will develop that book knowledge, yet—for all their best intentions—they're not getting different results. So there's this gap of taking that knowledge and bringing it into action.” - Rachel Wynn   This week on Innovation Talks:   ●     Rachel's tips for product managers ●     How companies can improve performance ●     The role of research in product innovation ●     The benefits of customer research ●     How to overcome burnout as a product manager ●     Product management success stories ●     Rachel's top team coaching techniques ●     How to avoid common mistakes in product research ●     The impact of AI on product management   Connect with Rachel Wynn:   ●     Rachel Wynn's Website (https://www.wynnproductconsulting.com/) ●     Rachel Wynn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelmwynn/)   This Podcast is brought to you by Sopheon   Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Innovation Talks. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.   Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/innovation-talks/id1555857396) | TuneIn (https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/Innovation-Talks-p1412337/) | GooglePlay (https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9pbm5vdmF0aW9udGFsa3MubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M%3D) | Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=614195) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/1dX5b8tWI29YbgeMwZF5Uh) | iHeart (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-innovation-talks-82985745/)   Be sure to connect with us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SopheonCorp/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/sopheon) , and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/sopheon/) , and share your favorite episodes on social media to help us reach more listeners, like you.   For additional information around new product development or corporate innovation, sign up for Sopheon's newsletter where we share news and industry best practices monthly! The fastest way to do this is to go to sopheon.com (https://www.sopheon.com/) and click here (https://info.sopheon.com/subscribe) .  

Rachel Wynn is a B2B SaaS product leader with over a decade of experience in product strategy. Rachel has a proven track record of bringing new products to market and managing complex enterprise products and has helped numerous clients think more strategically, de-risk decision-making, and find product-market fit faster. As an experienced product manager, she has worked at companies at various stages, from bootstrapped to venture capital-backed, private equity funded, and public. She has also experienced acquisition and IPO exits, served on a board of directors, served as a pitch judge for an innovation challenge, and founded companies. With a background in managing road mapping software at ProductPlan and product analytics software at Quantum Metric, Rachel has interviewed hundreds of product teams, making her an authority in product vision and strategy, product road mapping, 0-1 product thinking, interviewing customers, customer discovery and validation, product innovation, product launch and go-to-market planning, product analytics, stakeholder communication, pricing and packaging, research and discovery, and customer-centric products. In her spare time, Rachel is a bookworm and she's always ready to recommend a great read.  Today, Rachel joins me to discuss how research-driven innovation can help teams create something new. She explains how research-driven innovation lessens your risk of failure and allows teams to make solid decisions. We discuss the importance of having a clear vision and why that vision needs to include all the problems you're currently trying to solve. Rachel shares her approach to research in product management and how her background as a cognitive rehabilitation therapist informed her process. She emphasizes the importance of customer interviews, learning from your customers, and paying attention to what your competitors are doing. Rachel also outlines the research and feedback cycle and how to know when you've provided your customers with the most valuable solution. “People will develop that book knowledge, yet—for all their best intentions—they're not getting different results. So there's this gap of taking that knowledge and bringing it into action.” - Rachel Wynn This week on Innovation Talks: ●     Rachel's tips for product managers●     How companies can improve performance●     The role of research in product innovation●     The benefits of customer research●     How to overcome burnout as a product manager●     Product management success stories●     Rachel's top team coaching techniques●     How to avoid common mistakes in product research●     The impact of AI on product management Connect with Rachel Wynn: ●     Rachel Wynn's Website●     Rachel Wynn on LinkedIn This Podcast is brought to you by Sopheon Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Innovation Talks. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify | iHeart Be sure to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes on social media to help us reach more listeners, like you. For additional information around new product development or corporate innovation, sign up for Sopheon's newsletter where we share news and industry best practices monthly! The fastest way to do this is to go to sopheon.com and click here. 

Stefan Thom is an Account Executive at ProductPlan. We talk about Stefan's recent promotion from SDR to AE and Stefan shares his theory on why every sales call is really a customer success call. If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to grow this show and find the best guests possible for you. Follow The Podcast: Apple/Spotify: Millennial Sales Twitter: TommyTahoe Instagram: TommyTahoe YouTube: TommyTahoe Website: Millennialmomentum.net

Stefan Thom is an Account Executive at ProductPlan. We talk about Stefan's recent promotion from SDR to AE and Stefan shares his theory on why every sales call is really a customer success call. If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to grow this show and find the best guests possible for you. Follow The Podcast: Apple/Spotify: Millennial Sales Twitter: TommyTahoe Instagram: TommyTahoe YouTube: TommyTahoe Website: Millennialmomentum.net

On this episode on the Customer Discovercast we spoke to Jim Semick who is the Co Founder of Product Plan. Jim has a successful track record of transforming rough ideas into real products and bringing those products to market over his 15+ yr career so needless to say he is an industry leader in the product field.Tune in to learn about Jim's techniques for validating new products as well as how to use Product Led Growth and Design Thinking to scale your product most efficiently! You can watch  the Customer Discovercast on Youtube here! Jim is also the author of the book Essentialist Product Manager in which he teaches Product Professionals how to manage their time most efficiently to minimize waste and maximize product value!If you want to reach Jim you can do so by visiting the links belowLinkedin Twitter ProductPlan  Personal Website 

Jim Semick works for more than 20 years in Product Management. About 8 years ago he was looking for the next big challenge in his life. He quit his full-time job with two kids and no clear business idea. What he had back then was a great and motivated co-founder as well as the vision to make Product Managers' lives easier. In this episode, Jim talks about the importance of having a clear vision of how to build a company with your co-founder before you even have a business idea. Next to that, Jim shared what he did to identify a problem that was worth solving which later translated into his company ProductPlan. Table of content: 0:30 - Intro Jim Semick 3:40 - From Product Manager to founder 6:20 - Evaluating & entering markets 13:45 - Dealing with uncertainty as a founder & former PM 15:30 - 30 in-depth customer interviews 17:20 - Bootstrapping instead of raising money? 19:50 - Reducing uncertainty the lean way 25:50 - Making the first hire to build a new product 28:05 - Why you don't need to raise money 33:00 - Two things you should know when you're working on an idea Jim on the internet: Website: https://www.jimsemick.com/ Jim's books & articles: https://www.jimsemick.com/writing/ ProductPlan: https://www.productplan.com/ Linkedin: @jimsemick Twitter: @jimsemick ✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩

Jim Semick "We interviewed more than 30 product managers before we wrote a single line of code. I recommend startups begin by interviewing at least 10 prospective customers to understand the problems their specific market is facing. In those interviews, you may not even talk about your product. In fact, you shouldn't. You're not pitching a product at this stage. You're simply trying to understand a day in the life of your customer." Jim Semick is the co-founder and Chief Strategist of ProductPlan. Previously, Jim was part of the founding team at AppFolio. He also helped launch GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, and GoToWebinar. Jim is a sought-after speaker, and writes about product management, business models, and entrepreneurship. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theindustryshow/support

In this episode learn how to create a product roadmap with ProductPlan, and integrate your roadmap with Azure DevOps. We show how you can easily import from Azure DevOps to create your roadmap, and save time by syncing progress and other items between ProductPlan and Azure DevOps.Jump To: [03:35] Overview of Azure DevOps integration with ProductPlan[05:09] Demo of integrationLearn More: ProductPlanProductPlan IntegrationIntegrate your Product Roadmap to Azure BoardsDevOps Lab Favorite Links: Create a Free Azure DevOps AccountAzure DevOps DocsWrite Cool CodeGitHub Actions

Recently the ProductPlan team released their eBook From Product Manager to Product Leader - Lessons from today's product experts and I really enjoyed it. One of the things I speak a lot about on the Product Coach podcast is how to be a Product Leader and this book really dives into a lot of detail about it and on this podcast Jim Semick from ProductPlan helps us dissect the lessons from the book. As the book says: "While there are many reasons products might succeed, it's the direction of great product leadership that truly makes a difference." I couldn't agree more. Enjoy the episode and The Product Leadership book can be downloaded from: https://www.productplan.com/lp/product-leadership-book/Enjoy it and feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you think. All the best on your product journey, Ross Webb, The Product Coach

Guest Jim Semick, Founder & Chief Strategist of ProductPlan https://www.productplan.com/ Santa Barbara is becoming more and more known for its budding tech community because of the amazing software companies that reside here. ProductPlan is one of them and acts as the world’s leading product roadmap software. They are trusted by thousands of companies, some of which include Nike, PBS, Microsoft, Coca Cola and more. In this interview, I chat with the founder Jim Semick about where he gets his motivation, his experience in helping grow other successful companies in Santa Barbara like Appfolio, and how that enabled him to take smart risks by validating his ideas with customers before building anything at all. Enjoy this Chapter One conversation with Jim! Theme Music Rising All Along by David Segall www.davidsegall.com Feedback? email: prakash@togethersb.com

Discover solutions to the top challenges of creating efficient product roadmaps from Jim Semick, co-founder of ProductPlan, a cloud-based roadmap software for product and marketing teams. Jim shares tips and techniques for communicating an effective product strategy through your roadmap and the best way to plan and prioritize product features. He also discusses how to create a simple roadmap that can be easily changed and widely communicated across your organization, including how to make a convincing case to your executive team about the importance of specific roadmap features. Find out why it’s important to create strategic goals and then to align those goals with a compelling product roadmap in this episode of Pragmatic Live. Read Jim’s Pragmatic Marketer article, Howto Price Saas Products.  Watch Jim’s webinar, Delight Your Customers While You Turn a Profit.  Learn the 7 Strategies to Choose the Best Features for Your Product.  Download ProductPlan’s guide to product roadmaps.

Welcome to episode #18 of IoT Product Leadership, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with product leaders on what it takes to build great IoT products. I’m your host, Daniel Elizalde.    I have a very insightful show for you today. My guest is Jim Semick, Co-Founder and Strategy Officer at ProductPlan.   Jim is a seasoned Product Leader with experience in startups and large corporations alike. He is recognized as a Product Management Thought Leader, not only because he is the co-founder of ProductPlan, one of the most prominent Product Roadmap software companies out there, but also because he is passionate about sharing best practices and pushing the Product profession forward.   In this episode, Jim shares valuable advice on how to manage the innovation process. We discuss his approach for validating your hypothesis, defining business models, and gaining support within your organization.      I learned a lot by talking to Jim in this episode, so if you are launching a new product within a startup or even within a large organization, I’m sure you’ll find Jim’s advice to be very valuable and actionable.      About Jim Semick:    Jim is passionate about software product management and designing successful business models. For over 15 years he has helped validate and launch innovative software products that are used today by millions of people. Prior to founding ProductPlan, Jim was part of the founding team at AppFolio, a vertical SaaS company (IPO 2015), helping develop multiple products. Prior to AppFolio, he validated and launched GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar (acquired by Citrix).     About ProductPlan:   ProductPlan makes it easy for teams of all sizes to build beautiful roadmaps. Thousands of product managers worldwide–including teams from Nike, Microsoft and Spotify–trust ProductPlan to help them visualize and share their strategies across their entire organization. With our intuitive features, product managers spend less time building roadmaps and more time shipping products.     Topics we discuss in this episode:   Jim shares his background and about ProductPlan. ProductPlan’s approach to IoT solutions. How to approach market validation. The dos and don’ts of interviewing customers. How to develop the monetization strategy for a new product. Why companies should create a separate team to validate and build a new product idea. How to get internal buy-in within your organization. Advice for Product Leaders who are new at developing IoT solutions.   To learn more about Jim and ProductPlan:   ProductPlan Jim on LinkedIn On Twitter @jimsemick ProductPlan Blog  

In Part 1 of Starting Up with Janine Sickmeyer, you were introduced to the essential first steps of entrepreneurship. Now that you've found your product-market fit, done your research, and created a product landing page, it's time to start working towards the advanced stages of crafting your business. What we'll cover in this episode: Tools for Business Planning Raising Capital How to Be Lean Hiring Your Team Planning Your Launch Links to products and resources mentioned in the podcast! Business Tools She Starts Up Business Model Canvas: link pending Notion: https://www.notion.so/ Canva: https://about.canva.com/ Mailchimp: https://mailchimp.com/ Click Meeting: https://clickmeeting.com/ How to be Lean Rover: https://www.rover.com/ TaskRabbit: https://www.taskrabbit.com/ Hiring Your Team UpWork: https://www.upwork.com/ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com AngelList: https://angel.co/ Gusto: https://gusto.com/ Zenefits: https://www.zenefits.com/ Planning Your Launch Buffer: https://buffer.com/about Preview: https://thepreviewapp.com/ ProductPlan: https://www.productplan.com/

ProductPlan recently released its second annual Product Planning Report. In this episode of PragmaticLive, we sit down with the report's author, Shaun Juncal, and talk through the findings and what they tell us about how companies of all shapes and sizes manage their product planning and roadmapping processes. To download a free copy of the report, visit productplan.com/report.

In December, Jim Semick, founder and chief strategist at ProductPlan, was our guest for a webinar on 5 Ways to Nail Your Strategic Product Roadmap. In this follow up discussion, Jim tackles questions from the over 700 attendees of that webinar on topics ranging from hot to prioritize, share and update your roadmap, to the relationship between your roadmap and your backlog. Listen now and be sure to download their free book on planning and selling your strategy through roadmaps. Have an idea for a future episode? Send us an email at experts@pragmaticmarketing.com.

Listen to the Interview I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan, which creates roadmap software for product teams. Jim has helped launch new products generating hundreds of millions in revenue, including being part of the founding team at AppFolio […]

Listen to the Interview I've had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan, which creates roadmap software for product teams. Jim has helped launch new products generating hundreds of millions in revenue, including being part of the founding team at AppFolio […]

"Sometimes getting it 80% done gives you 1000% satisfaction" Jim has a philosophy about work and 'just do it', is a big part of it. Entrepreneur Jim Semick, co-founder of ProductPlan talked with Mark about how they're rethinking how you communicate a product vision. He's been involved in a ton of companies in the region, originally coming down from Seattle and the tech scene up there. His background in Product Management gave him and his partners the idea to create this new company. This wide-ranging conversation covered a lot of ground including: -At 12 he knew he'd be running a business - but wasn't clear how that would turn out. -Going from one big company (AETNA) to another bigger one (Microsoft) and eventually leaving for smaller pastures -His background? A Technical Writer -What Product Plan does and why it's important for key clients like NIKE, Alaska Air and IBM's Watson team -The role of Market Validation, with a shout out to local pioneer in this area, Frank Robinson (Note: Frank coined the term MVP) -What's a Product Roadmap? How does it integrate into the overall corporate strategy -The KANO model for product design: focusing on, Customer delight, Performance related and "excitement" excitement features (There's more to this, listen to learn.) -How vital it is that a product, service or new idea has a Vision - that can be easily communicated to stakeholders

Discover solutions to the top challenges of creating efficient product roadmaps from Jim Semick, co-founder of ProductPlan, a cloud-based roadmap software for product and marketing teams. Jim shares tips and techniques for communicating an effective product strategy through your roadmap and the best way to plan and prioritize product features. He also discusses how to create a simple roadmap that can be easily changed and widely communicated across your organization, including how to make a convincing case to your executive team about the importance of specific roadmap features. Find out why it’s important to create strategic goals and then to align those goals with a compelling product roadmap in this episode of Pragmatic Live. Read Jim’s Pragmatic Marketer article, Howto Price Saas Products.  Watch Jim’s webinar, Delight Your Customers While You Turn a Profit.  Learn the 7 Strategies to Choose the Best Features for Your Product.  Download ProductPlan’s guide to product roadmaps.  

Jim Semick is co-founder of ProductPlan, Web-based software for developing and communicating your strategic product roadmap. Jim speaks frequently about market validation and the new product development process. He was part of the founding team at AppFolio, a business SaaS company that has raised over $30M in venture funding. Jim previously led market validation and wrote the first product requirements for well-known software products including Citrix GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting.