All The Responsibility, None Of The Authority: Recent Episodes
All The Responsibility, None Of The Authority
In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss Hubert Palan's background, how he moved into product management, his career at Good Data, where he was the VP of Product, and his decision to leave Good and start ProductBoard, a new solution for product managers.
In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss Hubert Palan's background, how he moved into product management, his career at Good Data, where he was the VP of Product, and his decision to leave Good and start ProductBoard, a new solution for product managers.
Intro episode for Season 2 of All The Responsibility, None of The Authority, the podcast for product managers, product marketers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who want to be more effective and more successful creating and selling products.
A good way to reach your prospect's emotional brain and convince it that your product is the best and the one they should buy, is to use emotionally engaging quotes and stories from customers. And what makes a quote emotionally engaging is if it talks about how the customer achieved a personal goal using your product.
In this podcast I go into a bit more detail about a topic I covered a few weeks ago in The Astonishing Financial Benefits of Improving PM Effectiveness, namely, the “business value” of product management. (By the way, I was happy to see this concept mentioned in Janna Bastow’s post on ProdPad this week – Read More
How do you get into product management if you're trained to do something else? In this podcast I share the characteristics, skills, and mindset you need to be a successful product manager.
In this podcast I talk about a problem that afflicts many product companies – poor communication between product management and developers. And I describe an approach that can help improve the communication, and improve everyone’s motivation – a new rubric for writing good requirements which I call VALUABLE. That’s an acronym for: Valuable, Aligned, Loved, Read More
As a product manager, one of your most precious resources is your “cognitive storage tank.” It’s like a real fuel tank – when it’s exhausted, your cognitive abilities stop working well. And when that happens, it means you can’t be as innovative, you can’t be as creative, and your decisions get worse. To improve our Read More
How do you describe product management? Do you find yourself saying “I’m the CEO of the product?” Do you think anyone understands what you mean when you say that?
This week’s podcast talks about a better way to answer that question, one that puts the fundamental job of product management - solving problems for people who will pay for the solutions - front and center.
The second episode of "All The Responsibility, None Of The Authority", a podcast from Nils Davis (@nilsie). In this episode I outline a system of record for all this product management output that individual product management organizations can create out of existing tools, like a wiki. (At least until someone builds a commercial system for us.)