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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
In this episode, three short “acts” – somewhat related brief stories that, hopefully, illuminate aspects of product management for you.
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.
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.
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.
Product managers create pitch decks and blog posts and user stories and sales trainings and … the list goes on. But what if you hit a creative roadblock? Here are 3 techniques for blasting through these obstacles.
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.)