In this episode I share my approach to coming up with great questions to ask as the interviewee in a job interview. They’ll help you find out things you want to know, and they’ll help position you as a serious, smart, prepared product person.
All The Responsibility Podcast
The podcast for product managers, product marketers, innovators and everyone trying to create value in the world with new products.
Primarily presented by Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook.
All The Responsibility Podcast
The podcast for product managers, product marketers, innovators and everyone trying to create value in the world with new products.
Primarily presented by Nils Davis, author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook.
Episode 67: Can I Be A Product Manager Without A Technical Background?
This episode is a follow-on of sorts to episode 302, “Not Technical? No Problem.” This question of “I’m not a programmer – can I be a product manager?” is surprisingly common. Most experienced product managers would say “yes” – you do not have to have been a programmer to be a great product manager. But,
Episode 66: Learn To Build An Effective Team From This Extraordinary High School Jazz Band
In this episode, an exceptional high school jazz band and its leader give us some valuable lessons on how to build a high-performing product team.
Episode 65: Tricks and Techniques For Outsmarting Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome makes it tough to take on that next project, especially in an uncertain, complex domain like product management or product marketing. Here are some techniques you can use to get moving.
Go-To-Market For Yourself: Getting Your Next Product Management Job
Your stories of what you actually did are the hiring manager’s best way to assess what you can really do and what you are really like. They are critical for reducing the hiring manager’s perception of risk of hiring you.
Episode 63: 3 Short Acts of Product Management
In this episode, three short “acts” – somewhat related brief stories that, hopefully, illuminate aspects of product management for you.
Episode 62: Digging for Market Problems Worth Solving, With Open-Ended Questions
Product innovation can be defined as “Solving an important market problem in a new and better way, then taking it to market effectively” – but how do you find those important market problems that need better solutions? You have to talk to the market – and open-ended questions are your stock in trade for learning what you need to know.
Episode 61: Reducing The Perception of Risk – The Art of Pre-handling Objections
Use your knowledge of the problems and challenges your prospects are facing, and the stories of your successful customers, to reduce the prospect’s perception of risk about your product.
Episode 60: Liza Collin on Product Readiness
Liza Collin is the Market Readiness Director for Visma. In this episode she shares why she created this position, and how she helps Visma’s product teams launch new products with much higher success rates.
About Your Host
Nils Davis
Your host, and author of The Secret Product Manager Handbook
When I started in product management, there were no resources for learning product management.
To help new product managers avoid that struggle, for years I’ve been providing that “secret” information on my Secret Product Manager Handbook website, this podcast, and my YouTube channel.
(You can get a lot of my best material in the Kindle or paperback version of The Secret Product Manager Handbook - a real book! It’s crammed full of all the things I wish someone had told me when I started.)