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Why Some Products Fail While Others Succeed, with Justin Bauer, SVP of Product at Amplitude from 2021-11-15T10:00
If you’re familiar with the game of baseball, you know the saying “batting a thousand”. It means getting a hit every single time you go up to bat. And no one bats...
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How Behavioral Science Can Make You a Better Product Manager, with Kristen Berman, CEO Irrational Labs from 2021-11-01T09:00
Understanding customers is a bedrock of successful product management. But it is a lot easier to say than do. Truly understanding customers entails a deep knowled...
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Getting Us All on the Same Page: Telling Complex Stories to Various Audiences, with Deepti Tadala, Senior Product Manager, Paypal from 2021-10-18T14:50:04
We, in product management, live in complex worlds. We are often solving complicated problems. We are often using sophisticated, complex technologies or engineerin...
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What’s Wrong with Being Timeline Focused? Everything! Now, Let’s Fix It. - a conversation with Janna Bastow from 2021-10-04T21:37:25
Anyone who has been in product management knows that a timeline is part of everyday life. Frankly, it’s hard for a lot of people to imagine not living in this tim...
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How Product Managers Can Go From Good to Great, a conversation with Carlos Gonazalez de Villaumbrosia from 2021-09-13T09:00
In this episode, JJ Rorie, VP of Sequent Learning Networks and Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, CEO and Founder of Product School, discuss how product managers can move from *bad* - to good - t...
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The Five Immutable Truths of Great Product Managers(TM) from 2021-08-16T09:00
Regardless of industry, type of product, educational background, or development methodology, there are five commonalities among great product managers. In this episode, we discuss these common t...
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Continuous Discovery Habits with Teresa Torres from 2021-08-02T09:00
The bedrock of successful product development is a deep understanding of what customers really need. In this episode, I speak with Listen
A Seat at the Table: The Chief Product Officer Role, with Navya Rehani Gupta, CPO at Peek.com from 2021-07-21T09:00
The Chief Product Officer (CPO) role is still a fairly new role. I get asked quite often where product management should sit within an organization. Historically,...
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Product Management with Remote Teams, with Kevin Urrutia, co-founder of Voy Media from 2021-06-14T09:00
There is a lot of discussion about whether co-location / in-person work is best for product management and innovation or if remote work can be just as effective. Maybe there is no one right answ...
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The Importance of User Interviews and Customer Research, with Keerthi Hoback, Senior Director of Product Management, Major League Baseball from 2021-05-31T09:00
There are few things that can make a bigger impact on the ultimate success of a product than a true, deep understanding of customer needs. Without this understand...
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Building More Equitable Products | A Conversation with Carey Jenkins and Amanda Di Dio of Substantial from 2021-05-17T13:24:59
For those of us who build products for a living, how do we ensure that our products are equitable, inclusive, and are leaving a positive impact on customers and t...
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The SIX Tips for Finding Product-Market Fit, with Kandis O’Brien, Co-Founder of The SIX from 2021-05-03T14:30:47
Product-Market Fit essentially means having the right product to meet a market demand. Here’s the deal… if you don’t first understand what customers need and will buy AND the dynamics and attrac...
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What Product Managers Can Learn from Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders, with Ryan Frederick, CEO of AWH and Author of The Founder’s Manual from 2021-04-19T11:37:59
Having an “entrepreneurial mindset” is a very beneficial trait for product managers. It will help them think and act in a way that drives ownership, accountabilit...
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The Democratization of Design, with Florian van Schreven, co-Founder and COO of Uizard from 2021-04-05T09:00
Design, of course, is a critical part of product development. It’s where the ideas in our heads start to take shape in the real world. Listen
The Importance of Innovation for Legacy Products and Brands, with Ebony Shears, Vice President of Product, Forbes from 2021-03-22T10:17:57
All products have a lifespan. Some products live for a year or so. Some products - especially those attached to iconic brands - can live for decades or longer! Le...
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How Being a Standup Comedian Taught Me How to Be a Great Product Manager, with Deepak Paramanand, Product Lead at Hitachi Europe from 2021-03-08T13:15:49
Many experiences can help product managers hone their skills... including stand-up comedy! In this episode, Deepak Paramanand shares how learning how to find jokes that will land with his audien...
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Getting Started with Jobs to be Done, with Mike Belsito, co-Founder of Product Collective from 2021-02-22T10:00
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) has become one of the most discussed frameworks among product people. Yet while it's simple in nature, JTBD is often misunderstood, making it difficult for some to begin a...
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The Product Leader's Role in M&A, with Jodi McDermott, Chief Product Officer at Dude Solutions from 2021-02-08T10:00
An organization’s product leader plays a significant role in mergers and acquisitions activities - from both the buy side and sell side. In this conversation, Jodi McDermott shares her experienc...
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The Role of Product Manager for Non-Software Products from 2021-01-25T23:40
Is the product manager role different for a physical product than for a software product? My answer is that most of the role is the same, but there are some real nuances that matter. In this epi...
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The Superpower of Neurodiversity & How It Can Make Every Product Team Better from 2021-01-06T23:15:59
Neurodiversity - having a team whose minds and brains work differently from each other - can be a superpower for organizations, leading to more innovation and better products. Marton Gaspar, The...
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We All Start Somewhere - Carving Your Career Path in Product Management, with Mamuna Oladipo, SVP Product, Design, & Engineering, Kickstarter from 2020-09-17T09:00
While there are a few product management degrees popping up in universities these days - which is great, by the way - generally speaking, none of us get a degree ...
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The Important Relationship Between Product Manager and Technology Lead, with Blair Winston, Director of Product & Strategy at Hilton from 2020-04-27T09:00
Product management is innately cross-functional. There are many key partners that help build and support products… product management, technology, sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, operat...
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Driving Your Products and Supporting Your Customers During a Pandemic, a conversation with Vidya Dinamani from 2020-04-06T09:00
It’s early 2020 and the world has been drastically affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. While the health and safety of employees should be the top priority for all businesses, of cours...
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Building Internal Human Resources Products, a conversation with Hannah Bertiger, Product Manager at Walmart from 2020-03-30T09:00
When we think of the role of product manager, we mostly think of building products for external customers. But there are many product managers who build products for other employees of their organ...
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MPM 057: Keeping Scope Creep Under Control, with Jonathan Soares, CEO of Agency Labs from 2019-10-28T05:00
Scope creep – every product manager and engineer’s favorite thing. Scope creep is, of course, when, after we’ve finalized the scope for a project or release, the requirements for that release so...
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MPM 056: How an Inclusive Culture Leads to Better Innovation, a discussion with Jennifer Brown from 2019-10-07T05:00
Study after study show that diversity is good for business. According to McKinsey, companies in the top quartile for gender diversity outperform their competitors by 15% and those in the top qua...
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MPM 055: Jobs to Be Done, a conversation with Brian Rhea from 2019-09-09T09:00
You’ve likely heard of the Jobs to Be Done theory, popularized by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Jobs to Be Done is a framework for better understanding customer behavior...
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MPM 054: Product Research for B2B Companies, Insights from Yana Welinder, CEO of Kraftful from 2019-08-26T05:00
Regardless of industry, size or age of an organization, or the type of products built, understanding customers and markets is the bedrock of successful product management for any company. Withou...
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MPM 052: Building Consumer Subscription Products into Successful Businesses, featuring Gyanda Sachdeva, VP Product at LinkedIn from 2019-08-22T14:46:28
Consumer subscription business models are sometimes quite difficult. Consumers – and we’re all guilty of this – expect so much for free these days when it comes to content, technology and online...
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MPM 053: Gamification and Product Management: Best Practices, a conversation with Heather Browning, VP Product of Ria Health from 2019-07-22T05:00
Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, etc.) to other areas, such as business, marketing, healthcare, or education for ...
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MPM 051: Cybersecurity Trends in Product Management, with Kanika Thapar Mehta, Group Product Manager, Cisco from 2019-06-24T05:00
Cybersecurity is a scorching hot topic these days. Of course, there are products out there singularly focused on cybersecurity, but the impact of cyber threats goes far beyond the target of thos...
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MPM 050: The Evolution of User Empathy, with Ashley Wali, VP of Product with Discuss.io from 2019-06-10T09:00
Empathy is a critical ingredient in successful product management. It affords us the ability to get in the shoes of our users and customers. It helps us feel their pain, celebrate their wins and...
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MPM 049: Scaling Product Management Teams, with Jessica Hall, VP Product Strategy & Design with 3Pillar Global from 2019-05-28T09:00
For most of us who have led product teams, scaling the team as you grow brings unique challenges. It’s a good problem to have, as they say. It means the organization and products are growing, bu...
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MPM 048: Customer Feedback: What B2B Companies Can Learn from the B2C World, with Rebecca Nathenson, Senior Director of Product Management for Jobvite from 2019-05-13T09:00
Probably the most significant aspect of product management is the ability to gather feedback from customers and use that feedback to uncover core needs. While we all likely understand the import...
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MPM 047: Rebuilding Century Old Products for the Modern Consumer, Lessons from Insurtech: a conversation with Kate Terry, Co-Founder & COO of Surround Insurance from 2019-04-29T09:00
There are many products that stand the test of time and become embedded in consumers’ lives. Think banking, healthcare, insurance or, depending on where you live, taxi cabs. For decades at a tim...
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MPM 046: Driving Innovation in a Fast-Growing Industry: The Importance of Organizational Collaboration, with Kevin Wunder, Senior Director, Product Management of Loveland Innovations from 2019-04-15T15:13:01
Succeeding in product management and innovation while our industries and markets are changing around us is something we deal with every day. As the saying goes, “The only constant is change.” Th...
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MPM 045: Product Management and AI, an interview with Chris Butler, IPSoft’s Chief Product Architect from 2019-04-03T13:15:34
We hear a lot about AI – artificial intelligence – these days. According to McKinsey, AI technologies are projected to increase labor productivity by up to 40% and Executives are highly optimist...
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MPM 044: How Design Thinking Can Help Your Product Management Team, with Bob Burgarino, EVP with Apiture from 2019-03-18T21:49:29
Iterative planning & design, also known as design thinking, is a process and philosophy that centers around deeply understanding customer problems, then designing solutions and testing those pro...
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MPM 043: Bringing Product Manager skills to Non-Product Roles, a Conversation with Michael Smith, Practice Manager UPMC Susquehanna from 2018-11-26T10:00
On this podcast, we discuss how skills that are critical to Product Managers - skills such as influencing others, initiative, a sense of ownership and empowerment, and many others - can be taken...
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MPM 042: The Intersection of Product Management & Talent Development, with Hawley Kane, Head of Organizational Talent & Leadership Development, Saba Software from 2018-11-12T06:00
Organizations are keenly focused on developing their most important asset... their people. Talent Management and Learning & Development are strategic functions within best-in-class organizations...
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MPM 041: Products & Services in the Connected World, an interview with Mark Karasek, EVP & CTO of The Chamberlain Group from 2018-10-29T05:00
Many physical product companies are finding themselves dealing more and more with technology and the connected world… that is, their products must interact with many other products, platforms an...
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MPM 040: Winning at Global Product Management, with Colleen Knuff, Senior Director, Global Product Management Wolters Kluwer from 2018-10-01T05:00
Launching and managing products across various global regions takes a special mindset and process. Whether it’s differing laws and regulations or differing cultural aspects, there are nuances th...
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MPM 039: How to Raise Your Product Management Acumen from 2018-09-17T05:00
Sometimes we need to be reminded of what's needed to be a successful product manager. In this episode, Steven Haines reinforces the key constructs required to be a successful product manager.
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MPM 038: Optimizing Cross-Functional Collaboration, with Jonas Klink, VP Shopping Experience Product at Jet.com from 2018-09-04T11:23:42
Product Management, by its very nature, is collaborative and cross-functional. On a daily basis, we work closely with engineering, marketing, sales, finance, operations, etc. Product Managers ha...
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MPM 037: How to Use Soft Skills to Influence Others from 2018-08-07T19:49:55
Episode 37 - How to Use Soft Skills to Influence Others:
It’s amazing how often the topic of influencing and using soft skills comes up. As most of us know, product managers are supposed ...
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MPM 036: Riding High - a Conversation with Ruth Zukerman - Co-Founder of Flywheel from 2018-07-18T03:24:45
Episode 36 - Riding High - a Conversation with Ruth Zukerman - Co-Founder of Flywheel:
Product managers can learn a lot from entrepreneurs. In this episode, Steven Haines talks with Ruth ...
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MPM 035: How Product Managers Can Think About Mobile Users With Kabir Bedi from 2018-05-28T05:00
Episode 35 – How Product Managers Can Think About Mobile Users:
We are a mobile, on-the-go society and our devices are glued to our hands. Product managers
who deal with mobile user...
MPM 034: How to Influence Product Teams With Karl Sluis from 2018-05-14T05:00
Episode 34 – How to Influence Product Teams with Karl Sluis:
Every product manager knows that their job is to influence people who don’t work for them. At
the core is effective commu...
MPM 033: Product Management vs. Project Management from 2018-04-30T05:00
Episode 33 – Product Management vs. Project Management with Steven Haines:
Product managers are often confused with project managers, and sometimes, product managers have to do the work of...
MPM 032: How to Interview Customers With Teresa Torres from 2018-04-16T05:00
Episode 32 – How to Interview Customers with Teresa Torres:
In order to ensure that a product’s features hit the mark, product managers and their teams must
become exemplary intervie...
MPM 031: Keeping Good Records from 2018-04-02T10:00
Episode 31 – The Importance of Good Record Keeping with Steven Haines:
Even with cloud-based storage, you’d be surprised that documents and artifacts are scattered across the organ...
MPM 030: How Product Managers Act Like Entrepreneurs from 2018-03-19T10:00
Episode 30 – How Product Managers Act Like Entrepreneurs
One of the things that separate good product managers from gr...
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MPM 029: The Importance of Mindset from 2018-03-05T21:30:12
Episode 29 – The Importance of Mindset with Steven Haines:
To be effective as a product manager, your mind has to be attuned to, and make sense out of a
dynamic stream of disconnecte...
MPM 028: Nurturing Your Product With Tara Newboult from 2018-02-22T20:41:31
Episode 28 – Nurturing Your Product with Tara Newboult:
Everyone likes new things. New products are more fun to work on and continuous...
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MPM 027: Understanding User Feelings in User Stories from 2018-01-16T22:31:26
MPM 026: Adapting to Agile from 2017-12-22T14:03:34
Episode 26 – Adapting to Agile with Steven Haines:
All companies want to act with agility and compete more aggressively in the batt...
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MPM 025: What is Product Management? from 2017-11-27T09:00
Episode 25 – What is Product Management? With Steven Haines:
Everyone knows what product management is. Right? Maybe not. Based on the research done at Sequent Le...
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MPM 024: Using the “Jobs to be Done” Model to Create Innovative Products from 2017-11-10T14:00
Episode 24 – Using the “Jobs to be Done” Model to Create Innovative Products:
As product people, we all want to create that unique product that solves a customer’s problem better than a...
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MPM 023: How to Validate Product-Market Fit from 2017-10-25T10:00
Episode 23 – How to Validate Product-Market Fit:
To bring your product strategy to light, every product must be validated for product-market fit, prior to launch, and through s...
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MPM 022: How to Use Design Sprints from 2017-10-17T21:29:52
Episode 22 – How Use Design Sprints to Speed Your Innovations:
It stands to reason that if you don’t validate a product concept...
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MPM 021: How to Understand the Customer Ecosystem from 2017-08-03T19:15:50
Episode 21 – How to Understand the Customer Ecosystem to Produce Better Results:
So many people talk about the customer experience, but all experiences don’t always result in a positive o...
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MPM 020: Leveraging Cross-Functional Teams in Agile from 2017-07-06T02:37:22
Episode 20 - Leveraging Cross-Functional Teams When Agile is Used:
The proliferation of intangible digital products and services has enabled many companies to use rapid development to ope...
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MPM 019: Enabling Product Management Success from 2017-06-02T14:18:41
Episode 19 - Enabling Product Management Success:
Product managers and product management leaders must move in lock-step in order to produce optimal outcomes. “Re-orgs” and other organiz...
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MPM 018: How to Deliver a Better User Experience from 2017-05-25T01:17:55
MPM 017: How To Be Effective Without a Product Leader from 2017-05-02T00:27:53
MPM 016: Product Management Best Practices in Action from 2017-04-01T05:00
MPM 015: How To Be a Better Competitor from 2017-03-21T15:34
Episode 15 - How To Be a Better Competitor:
Steven Haines reports from the road on action steps and strategies to overcome the competition and boost your success in Product Management. Listen
MPM 014: How to Achieve Competitive Advantage from 2017-02-24T21:41:45
Episode 14 - How To Achieve Competitive Advantage:
Did you ever feel that everyone on your team is incredibly knowledgeable about the competitive environment...
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MPM 013: How to Succeed as a Product Manager in a Tech Company from 2017-01-28T06:00
Episode 13 - How to Succeed as a Product Manager in a Tech Company:
Tech is everywhere, and has been for eons… and...
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MPM 012: Overcoming The Product Manager's Dilemma from 2017-01-13T17:00
Episode 12 - Overcoming The Product Manager's Dilemma
Most product managers don’t have direct reports, so they must resort to relationship building, influencing, and other techniques to g...
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MPM 011: Inspiring Your Team With Customer Stories from 2016-12-20T18:25:46
Episode 11 - Inspiring Your Team With Customer Stories
Customers are the focal point for our products and services. It's incumbent on product managers to hear and convey the voice of the ...
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MPM 010: From Aerospace to Basketballs from 2016-12-15T06:00
Episode 10 - From Aerospace to Basketballs
Every business needs Product Management. When it’s done right, strategies are clear, teams are aligned, and results are achieved. Steven Haines ...
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MPM 009: Managing Your Product Management Career from 2016-11-26T21:32:59
Episode 9 - Managing Your Product Management Career
Most product managers want to expand their horizon with new skills and experiences. But how do you get promoted to the next level? Ste...
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MPM 008: A Passion For Pricing from 2016-11-18T17:00
MPM 007: Minding Your Business from 2016-10-28T05:00
Episode 7 -Minding Your Business
If you operated a retail store, you’d surely want to know what’s selling and how much money you’re making. How’s your product doing? If you’d like some ...
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MPM 006: Effective Product Launches from 2016-10-11T17:55:54
Episode 6 - Effective Product Launches
Steven Haines discusses key factors to consider in your product launch and important steps to maximize your effort.
Hosted by Steven Haines o...
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MPM 005: Product Roadmaps from 2016-09-08T18:11:42
Episode 5 - Product Roadmaps
Mark Lamps discusses how to use product roadmaps to align stakeholders, products and success. Explore the big picture context in terms of what the products wi...
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MPM 004: Leadership Development from 2016-08-15T16:00
Episode 4 - Leadership Development
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MPM 003: Effectively Facilitating the Work of DevOps from 2016-08-02T20:14:58
Episode 3 - Effectively Facilitating the Work of Development and Operations
Raj Rao Chief Product Officer at Witty Parrot discusses how product managers can facilitate the required interp...
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MPM 002: Solving the Myth of the MVP from 2016-08-02T20:09:24
Episode 2 - Solving the Myth of the MVP
Scott Sehlhorst clarifies what’s needed to create a minimum valuable product.
Hosted by Steven Haines of Sequent Learning Networks.
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MPM 001: Focus on Product Quality from 2016-08-02T20:06:09
Episode 1 - Focus on Product Quality
Karl Ederle joins host Steven Haines to discuss what can be done to fine-tune your product quality to delight your customers.
Hosted by Steven ...
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MPM 000: Welcome To Masters of Product Management from 2016-08-02T20:02:44
Episode 0 - Welcome to Masters of Product Management
Steven Haines welcomes you to "Masters of Product Management." Why listen to the show? Who is Steven Haines? An...
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