Fearless Product Leadership

HOW DO YOU SURFACE ASSUMPTIONS DURING PRODUCT DISCOVERY? In the previous episode, we heard the horror stories of product leaders and teams haunted by the risky assumptions that surfaced too late.  Is this destined to be your fate as well? Not if I can help it!  In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, we learn how to mitigate those risky assumptions from seasoned product leaders who answer the question “How do you surface assumptions during product discovery?” Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Marc Abraham, Head of Product-Engagement at ASOS, former CPO at Settled Audrey Cheng, VP of Product, Pushpay Sean Murphy, former VP of Product at Target and VP of Product & Engineering at CustomInk and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast. Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW HAVE YOU BEEN BURNED BY RISKY ASSUMPTIONS? Are you a new product leader who doesn't yet surface assumptions as part of your product development practice? In this episode, 5 experienced product leaders share stories of product development gone wrong when they were burned by risky assumptions that surfaced too late.  This episode will be followed by a companion episode in which we hear about the techniques product leaders use with their teams to surface assumptions as part of their product development practice. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Marc Abraham, Head of Product-Engagement at ASOS, former CPO at Settled Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote Systems Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer at SEEK  Preston Smalley, VP Product Management at Comcast Ezinne Udezue, VP of Product at Procore, former VP of Product Management, BazaarVoice   and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR PRODUCT ORG IS TRULY GREAT? Are you a product leader or CEO wondering if your product organization is truly great?  Do you wonder what the irrefutable evidence would actually help you determine whether they're great at what they do and how they do it?  In this episode, 6 experienced product leaders share the characteristics and behaviors that help them know whether their product org is irrefutably great at what they do. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer at SEEK  Nate Walkingshaw, Chief Experience Officer at Pluralsight Sean Murphy, former VP of Product at Target and VP of Product & Engineering at CustomInk Seth Roe, VP Consumer Product, The Weather Channel Amanda Richardson, CEO, CoderPad, former VP of Product at HotelTonight, Prezi and Snagajob Al Ming, VP Product & Design, CNBC and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU BALANCE INVESTMENT IN TECH DEBT VS CUSTOMER VALUE? Are you a new product leader?  Are you having difficulty finding an approach to keep tech debt at bay and the teams velocity of delivery of value on pace with the demanding expectations of customers and stakeholders?  In this episode, you’ll learn from 5 experienced product leaders: WHEN tech debt is justified to accumulate WHO should be accountable for paying down the debt HOW to educate your leadership team on the impact of tech debt on the company, its goals and teams HOW to align with engineering on the allocation and priorities when paying down technical debt Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos. Sean Murphy, former VP of Product at Target, and former VP of Product and Engineering at CustomInk Laura Marino, SVP of Product at Lever Troy Anderson, SVP of Product & Technology at SPINS Albert Lee, co-founder and former head of product at MyFitnessPal Nate Walkingshaw, Chief Experience Officer at PluralSight and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)  Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you in a review or send me a voice memo.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on LinkedIn, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast.

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner?  In the first episode of season 2, 5 experienced B2B product leaders share their best strategies and techniques to enable their sales teams to meet customer needs and achieve quotas while protecting a discovery-led, agile product development process. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Ben Newell, VP Product, CBRE | Host, former VP of Product, rewardStyle and Sabre Corp Margaret Jastrebski, Chief Growth Officer at table eleven, former SVP Enterprise Product, ShopRunner Stefan Radullian, VP of Product & Engineering at Brainloop, a Diligent company Laura Marino, SVP Product, Lever   Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, SPINS  and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast.

HOW DO YOU CRAFT AND COMMUNICATE PRODUCT VISION? Are you a product leader struggling to create and communicate a product vision that will compel your company into action in the best interest of your customers?   In this episode, 5 experienced product leaders share their best practices that have helped them create a product vision to align their teams, leadership and stakeholders with how to improve the lives of customers for the growth of the company. A video version of this episode is available at Fearless Product channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/FearlessProduct. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Albert Lee, Co-Founder and former Head of Product, MyFitnessPal Ben Newell, former VP of Product, rewardStyle and Sabre Corp Ezinne Udezue, VP of Product Management, BazaarVoice   Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, SPINS  Prasad Gune, SVP Product Signifyd   and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Resources mentioned: Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become? by Michael Schrage Is Your Product Vision Moving People in the Right Direction? by Hope Gurion on Product Coalition (contains example Product Vision videos) --- Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DOES YOUR TEAM’S EXPERIENCE IMPACT YOU AS A PRODUCT LEADER? Given the emerging discipline of product management, it’s more common than not to have inexperienced product teams. As a product leader, how do you practically deal with that experience gap challenge? When the team isn’t right, it falls back on the leader to coach, course-correct or fill in gaps, and there are already a lot of demands on the PL’s time. That’s why we’re tackling the question HOW DOES YOUR TEAM’S EXPERIENCE IMPACT YOU AS A PRODUCT LEADER? in this episode of Fearless Product Leadership. A video version of this episode is available at Fearless Product channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/FearlessProduct. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Albert Lee, Co-Founder and former Head of Product, MyFitnessPal Preston Smalley, VP of Product Management, Comcast Amanda Richardson, Entrepreneur in Residence, former VP of Product at HotelTonight, Prezi and Snag Laura Marino, SVP Product, Lever   Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, SPINS  and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question or suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PRODUCT TEAMS? Are you a product leader seeking a reliable, respectful method of holding teams accountable to meet their goals? In this episode, you’ll learn how 5 experienced product leaders: Set goals and achieve accountability while still enabling teams to take risks  Rely on rituals to provide the necessary transparency of results vs goals  Take action when goals are missed  Help their teams be accountable to their goals and commitments  A video version of this episode is available at Fearless Product channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FearlessProduct. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos. Rosie Ruley Atkins, VP of Product, Homebase Troy Anderson, SVP of Product & Technology at SPINS  Preston Smalley, VP of Product Management, Comcast  Al Ming, VP of Product & Design, CNBC  Ezinne  Udezue, VP of Product Management, BazaarVoice and  yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)  Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to   you in a review or send me a voice memo.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on LinkedIn, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU ENSURE THAT PRODUCT IS NOT A BLACK BOX? Are you a new product leader?  Are you concerned that the rest of your org feels that product is a "black box?" Learn from experienced product leaders who successfully ensure that their organizations understand WHAT the Product team is working on and WHY.  A video version of this episode is available at Fearless Product channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/FearlessProduct. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos. Lauren Antonelli, Evite  Al Ming, CNBC  Brandon Anderson, SportsEngine Prasad Gune, Signifyd and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com)  Resources mentioned in this episode:  VictorCho.com (https://www.victorcho.com/)   Christine Wodtke's Commitments Model Introduction to OKRs (Introduction to OKRs  - O'Reilly Media 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni  Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU SET PRODUCT TEAM GOALS?  Are you a product leader struggling with how to set meaningful, measurable goals for your product teams?  In this episode, 5 experienced product leaders share their best tips and techniques on how they set goals, how frequently and who is part of the process. A video version of this episode is available at Fearless Product channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/FearlessProduct. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Preston Smalley, VP of Product Management, Comcast Ezinne Udezue, VP of Product Management, BazaarVoice   Rosie Atkins, VP of Product, Homebase Margaret Jastrebski, former SVP Enterprise Product, ShopRunner and current Product & Strategy Advisor Al Ming, VP Product & Design, CNBC and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift!  Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.  Have a question suggestion for a future episode?  Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.