Product Voices

Bria King, a product coach and product leader with experience in social good, networking, online marketing, and hospitality industries discusses a people-first approach to product management.We discuss:What is people-first product managementWhat are the benefits of people-first PMHow leaders and teams can move toward a more people-first culture

Chris Butler joins to discuss the "product spine" - how teams can align strategies, roadmaps, and tasks, and make sound decisions along all of them.Chris is an all-around product expert, currently Lead Product Manager at Google, with past stints as head of product operations at Cognizant and a product leader at Facebook, Kayak, and Waze.We discuss:what is the product spinehow teams can align along various abstractions such as the strategy, roadmaps, and task lists.how this alignment can lead to sounder decisions and ultimately better productsLearn more at ProductVoices.com and be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast platform.

Ensuring your product has the proper level and types of services around it can improve and optimize the user experience. We often forget how important these services can be to the overall success of a product.In this episode, Tania Sahai, product leader and founder of The Silver Pallete, joins to discuss how product managers and teams can focus on the important services that surround products.Learn more at ProductVoices.com

On this episode, Matt LeMay joins to discuss Product Leadership. Matt LeMay is an internationally recognized product leader, author, and consultant who has worked with companies like Spotify, Audible, Mailchimp, and Google. He is the author of Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O'Reilly Media, 2022), and has helped build and scale product management practices at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Learn more at MattLeMay.com and ProductVoices.com.

When we think about building products, we most often think about products for external customers. However, many product teams create solutions for internal customers - those fellow employees who use our products to help them better do their job. These “internal products” can have a huge impact on the business. In this episode, Sharon Aluma, Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Robotics joins to discuss the nuances of building products for internal customers and how to make the biggest impact with these solutions.Learn more on ProductVoices.com. 

We have a responsibility in product management to avoid exclusionary solutions and so it is incumbent upon us to learn inclusive design principles. We must learn how to design products that not only intentionally include but avoid unintentionally excluding groups. Sandra Camacho, a multicultural Inclusive Design strategist, educator, and advisor based in Paris, France, joins this episode to discuss inclusive design and share stories, insights, and tips for how we can learn and improve.We discuss:What is inclusive design? How do we define it?What’s happening in the tech industry in terms of inclusive design.How does this inclusive design compare to the diversity and inclusion work that’s happening in so many organizations?Examples of things that have worked really well in inclusive design and some that didn't work so well. How can those who aren’t in a marginalized group approach this work in a way that matters? Learn more at Sandra By Design or Inclusive Design Jam.Find resources mentioned on the episode at ProductVoices.com

Dan Balcauski, founder and principal consultant at Product Tranquility, joins to discuss The Secret to Unlocking Value: How to Maximize Your Product's Price.We discuss: Three types of value driversHow to know what our customers valueHow to measure pricing effectivenessHow companies find their value metricThe connection between customer segmentation and pricingAnd more!Learn more at ProductVoices.com.

Innovation and product ideation is one of the core tenants of successful product management. We simply have to get this right in order to put impactful nuanced, valuable, differentiated products and solutions out in the market for our customers. In this episode, Jennifer Glenski, Director of Product Management for BMC Software's Innovation Labs joins to discuss innovation and product ideation and how product teams can succeed at these critical activities.Learn more at ProductVoices.com.

Agency and accountability are so very important to the success of a product manager - not only embracing this themselves but also having the organization set up in a way and the culture set up in a way that expects accountability and allows agency with product managers. On this episode, Amanda Ralph, Principal Product Manager at Papercut, joins to discuss agency and accountability in product management.EPISODE OUTLINE:Why is agency so important in product management? 0:03How can product leaders transform or empower when they’re in an environment where it’s more about feature-driven product delivery? 3:57How product leaders can give their teams the agency they need while holding their teams accountable for value creation. 7:30Why it’s so important to start with leadership and culture. 10:51What are some things that may help a product manager who embraces the role but doesn’t quite know how to take hold of it? 15:11How to tease out the right environment for a new product manager. 20:05The importance of having a candid conversation with the product leader you’re interviewing with to better understand the environment before joining a new org.  24:01The fun of product management is that you’re on a continuous learning journey, but it’s also hard. 29:18

On this episode, Jonathan Hensley, the CEO and Chief Product Officer at EMERGE and author of Alignment: Overcoming Internal Sabotage and Digital Product Failure, discusses why alignment is critical to product success, and what teams can do to become more aligned.We discuss four types of alignment:IndividualTeamOrganizationMarket