product pupil: Recent Episodes
Sajeesh Nair
In this episode we continue our conversation with Phil Prasek. We talk about how product management looks like for Open Source Products like Chef and Crossplane. We try to get a under-the-hood view of the challenges faced and decisions to be made by an Open Source PM.
Listen and learn!
This is Part 1 of a 2-Part conversation with Phil Prasek.
Phil has been in the product industry for 20+ years. He has been instrumental in building products like HPE Oneview, Chef and Crossplane. He is also the founder of QuattroLabs which was later acquired by HPE.
Building Infrastructure Management products can be a daunting task due to various tech and business challenges. In this episode Phil helps understand the lifecycle of HPE Oneview from a Product Manager's pov. We learn how such a product goes from idea to MVP to large scale customer deployments. We also explore how to create a developer ecosystem around infra products. Listen and learn.
Alexa is a well known and one of leading audio devices when it comes voice assistants and audio speakers. We have lived through this evolution and seen audio devices go from advertisement to our rooms. But how does the view behind this looks like? In this episode we speak to Bhaskar Rao who worked with Alexa as a product manager in some specific areas.
In this podcast, you will learn about the following and more:
- Voice UI Designers is a real thing and discipline. A lot of time is spent in making sure the user’s experience is fine tuned for great experience.
- How a unique product like Alexa - where platform is built and owned by Amazon but Skills are built by developers and how it affects users perception.
- Despite the popularity Why Alexa is still in its very early days.
In this very first episode of ProductPupil we talk to Shubhi Saxena. Shubhi was one of first person to start in a product role at YellowMessenger when it was a 20 people company. From that point on to growing the product and company to a ~500 people company, Shubhi has been part of a interesting growth story.
In this episode we talk to Shubhi about a bunch of things:
- Why she decided to move from an engineering role to a product role and how she did make the switch
- What KPIs are important for an evolving space such as conversational AI where traditional KPIs don’t work
- How do you work with early stage enterprise customers to evolve a product!