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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay tear down their new favorite product: Signos! They walk through how to break down a product’s experience and strategy with Signos, the CGM app that they can’t stop talking about.

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00:00 Intro & Drinks

3:18 What is Signos?

6:55 product tear down starts: target audience

09:23 Signos competition & differentiators

14:07 Defining features and user benefits

19:22 Pricing uniqueness & distribution

24:15 Design & ease of use

30:16 Data accuracy, precision

34:00 AI Insights & data management

38:55 Price to value ratio

43:46 How we’d change the Signos product strategy

45:26 Our net promoter score for Signos

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay provide the inside scoop about what product managers that hire other product managers are looking for. We know a lot of people that are impacted by the recent layoffs, hopefully these tips and tricks are helpful for those of y'all actively interviewing.

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00:00 Summary of episode

00:22 Intro

03:20 What's That Drink?!

04:52 Drinking Game: Practice

05:40 Key Traits of PMs We Gave the Job To

22:38 What are the Main parts of the PM interview

31:28 Preparing for Product Manager Interviews

32:28 How to prepare with 2 weeks out

41:44 How to prepare with 6 months out

46:37 How to approach rejection and negotiation

53:19 Outro

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Q&A! Era and Ajay answer questions from you, our listeners, about burnout, failure, working with customer facing teams & parenting as product managers. It's an action-packed episode, and we're so glad to share this great insight with all of you!

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00:00 Summary of episode

00:16 Intro

01:34 What's That Drink?!

02:41 "How do you deal with burnout as a product manager?"

23:16 " How do you deal with failure as a product manager?"

31:20 "What product management learnings can you apply to being a parent? What parenting learnings can you apply to being a PM?"

43:42 "How should product managers work with customer facing teams? (CX, Sales, Account Management, etc.)"

51:37 Outro

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay talk about how to develop 🪄 product sense. If you’ve ever wondered how product managers have that 🕷️ spidey sense for what users need in their products, this is the episode to check out!

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00:00 Intro

01:54 What's That Drink?!

02:24 Drinking Game: "Intuition"

02:39 Misconceptions of Product Sense

03:35 What is Product Sense?

04:48 Steve Jobs & Product Sense

06:04 Two Main Areas: Priming Your Heart & Priming Your Mind

06:21 Be Empathetic

12:49 Be Open to New Ideas & Seek Inspiration

17:00 The Value of Experimentation

21:00 How to Prime Your Mind: 3 Hacks

21:17 Process for Deconstructing Products: Teardowns

26:28 The Best Product Teams Do Teardowns

28:48 The First iPhone & Product Sense

30:37 Summary of Product Sense Strategies

32:29 Product Sense Bootcamp: YouTube Key Plays

38:30 Outro

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Q&A! Era and Ajay answer questions from you, our listeners, about burnout, failure, working with customer facing teams & parenting as product managers. It's an action-packed episode, and we're so glad to share this great insight with all of you!

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✍🏾 Show Notes00:00 Summary of episode

00:16 Intro

01:34 What's That Drink?!

02:41 "How do you deal with burnout as a product manager?"

23:16 " How do you deal with failure as a product manager?"

31:20 "What product management learnings can you apply to being a parent? What parenting learnings can you apply to being a PM?"

43:42 "How should product managers work with customer facing teams? (CX, Sales, Account Management, etc.)"

51:37 Outro

📚 ResourcesAjay's Medium article: https://medium.com/@ajaywaghray/23-th...

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay talk about how to develop 🪄 product sense. If you’ve ever wondered how product managers have that 🕷️ spidey sense for what users need in their products, this is the episode to check out!

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Also please subscribe, listen and rate the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts! Really helps us out.

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✍🏾 Show Notes00:00 Intro

01:54 What's That Drink?!

02:24 Drinking Game: "Intuition"

02:39 Misconceptions of Product Sense

03:35 What is Product Sense?

04:48 Steve Jobs & Product Sense

06:04 Two Main Areas: Priming Your Heart & Priming Your Mind

06:21 Be Empathetic

12:49 Be Open to New Ideas & Seek Inspiration

17:00 The Value of Experimentation

21:00 How to Prime Your Mind: 3 Hacks

21:17 Process for Deconstructing Products: Teardowns

26:28 The Best Product Teams Do Teardowns

28:48 The First iPhone & Product Sense

30:37 Summary of Product Sense Strategies

32:29 Product Sense Bootcamp: YouTube Key Plays

38:30 Outro

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! 🍻 In this episode, Era and Ajay talk about the commonly created documents and tell you how to make them useful and something your team actually wants to read. And surprise! Documentation that is read, is documentation that influences. And that’s a big part of gaining momentum within your org, team and domain. 💪

We will start with killer strategies for your Jira user stories and bugs, then cover technical specs like PRDs and end with killer hacks for your product roadmaps. This is Era’s favorite episode… and not just because of the drinking game...🍸😎

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

01:50 Life Updates

09:10 Why you should care about being a good writer

13:04 Hacks for writing Jiras & User Stories

21:25 Pre-writing PRD doc-hacks

25:00 5 hacks for PRDs

41:35 Product Roadmap writing hacks

47:18 Punch list of PM documentation hacks

50:48 Cool Product Thing - ChatGPT3

56:45 Wrap-up & Outro

Resources:

Joel on Software - Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips

Lenny’s Newsletter - What makes a great 1-Pager/PRD?

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, an interview with John Meakin, Data Scientist for the Facebook Experimentation Platform, formerly Head of Experimentation at Vrbo! He has over 10 years of experience with experimentation at companies that are some of the best in tech. We discuss his advice on how to win at experimentation as a product manager.

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👨‍🔬 John’s Bio

John Meakin is Staff Data Scientist at Meta. John has worked with top tech companies Expedia and Meta specifically on the art of A/B testing.

He began his career as a researcher at the American Institutes for Research, managing experiment design on research projects there. From AIR, he joined Vrbo, part of Expedia Group, as a statistician focused on experimentation, which is where we met and embarked on many experimentation adventures! John eventually became Head of Experimentation at Vrbo prior to joining Meta in San Francisco. At Meta, John continues to be focused on all things experimentation in his role on Meta’s experimentation platform.

✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

01:30 Welcome John!

01:46 John's Bio

04:10 What's That Drink?!

05:14 Hard Truths about A/B Testing

09:39 What to Watch Out For When Experimenting

17:34 Exposure, SRM Level-Setting, How to Do It

24:15 Choosing an Evaluation Metric

26:14 Binarized vs. Non-Binarized Metrics

29:25 How Product Managers Prepare for A/B Testing

34:07 Being a Skeptic 38:24 Issues with A/B Testing Evaluation

46:35 Process for Product Managers When Engaging in A/B Testing

51:29 Clarity on Experimentation Policy Required

53:50 Parting Thoughts

58:44 Outro

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, Era and Ajay have a jolly ol’ time trying to figure out how to fix Twitter. We put into practice the kernel framework we cover in Episode 7 to develop a new product direction for Twitter. Hopefully it’s fun, but also a great way to learn how to start developing a product strategy on your own! 🎉

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

02:37 What's That Drink?!

04:29 Quant & qual insights about Twitter

12:27 What are the user problems?

21:10 What are the business problems?

25:55 Diagnosis of strategic problems to solve

28:17 Guiding policies for our Twitter product strategy

35:09 Coherent actions to fulfill guiding policies

54:26 Wrap-up & Outro

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, an interview with Lisa Roberts, Chief Marketing & Product Officer at FloorFound and Ajay's first boss as a product manager! She has over 25 years of experience in start-ups and now large companies that are some of the best in tech. We discuss her advice on how to get into product management, what makes PMs great, different types of product managers, what you should learn as a PM and so much more!

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👩 Lisa’s Bio

Lisa Roberts is Chief Marketing & Product Offer at FloorFound, an end-to-end Recommerce platform and marketplace for oversized retail items. Lisa has almost 25 years of experience working in product and marketing with some of the best in tech. She started her career at Garden.com, one of the biggest properties from Dot Com Bubble in 1998. From there she joined the product team at Dell, where she more officially learned product management (her words not mine!).

After Dell, she found herself at nFusion as an Interactive Product Manager before joining the Austin rocketship Bazaarvoice as an early employee, eventually Director of Marketing. Post Bazaarvoice, Lisa embarked on a journey into consulting before landing at Starmount, which is where she hired me as an Associate Product Manager, my first ever PAID PM gig! (definitely going to discuss this one.)

Post Starmount was a tour of some of the hottest start-ups in Austin including VP of Marketing at Adlucent, VP of Marketing at Edgecase.io, VP of Marketing at Civitas, and Chief Marketing Officer at Yonder before joining us back again (at least 50% of the time?!) in Product Land at FloorFound where she runs FloorFound’s product and marketing teams. And if that’s not enough, she founded Great Catch Consulting to consult with start-ups and is a board member at the Andy Roddick Foundation.

✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

01:14 Lisa's Bio

03:04 Welcome Lisa!

03:44 What's That Drink?!

05:12 "How did you get into product management?"

13:17 "What do you look for in those entry-level product manager roles?"

17:07 "What makes a product manager great?"

26:03 "What are things product managers do that drive you crazy?"

32:20 "What skills and knowledge should product managers acquire early on?"

35:38 Tech-Heavy vs. Business Heavy PMs

44:52 Up-level by shadowing great people you work with

46:10 How Lisa kills it at saying no, her secrets to the process

48:42 Start-Up vs. Large Company Product Management

01:04:09 Commonalities & Differences between Marketing & Product Management

01:13:06 Moving from Marketing to Product Management

01:17:51 Parting Advice: Ask for What You Want

01:20:48 Thank you, Lisa!

01:21:27 Outro

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, Era and Ajay are here to provide a non-filtered perspective on saying no as a product manager. We provide a framework that you can use, and role play an example close to what you can expect in real life on the job!

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:35 Episode overview

01:51 What's That Drink?!

02:23 Drinking game: drink on the word "listening"

03:00 Our sponsor: US!

03:38 Why you should learn how to say NO

07:05 Our framework for saying no: LAPATO

08:22 LA: Listening Actively

10:11 P: Pitch

13:22 ATO: Articulate the Tradeoff

16:00 Role Play: Applying LAPATO in a real life example

24:26 Cool Product Thing: Amazon Pre-Filled Grocery Carts

28:57 Outro

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, Era and Ajay answer your FANTASTIC questions. We did this session for paid subscribers only, but it was so helpful, we decided to make it available for everyone. 🎉

For reference, here are the questions we answered:

• When taking on a product as a new PM, what are some critical first steps one must do?

• How do you deal with experiment results that are not stat sig yet, only directional?

• How should project managers and product managers best work together?

Apologies in advance for Ajay’s audio, his mic gave out so he had to go to the backup from his headphones. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Hopefully the great quality of the content makes up for it!

Enjoy, and shoot us questions for the next Q&A session by responding in the comments! We answered 3 questions this time, I think we can expect to answer about the same amount next time.

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:42 When taking on a product as a new PM, what are some critical first steps one must do?

08:26 How do you deal with experiment results that are not stat sig yet, only directional?

13:55 How should project managers and product managers best work together?

18:02 Outro

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, Era and Ajay are here to provide a non-filtered perspective on user testing. We provide a primer on user testing, along with 5 hot tips for PMs on how best to participate!

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

01:24 Episode overview

01:46 What's That Drink?!

02:44 Drinking game: drink on the word "bias"

02:56 User testing definitions

06:08 What is NOT user testing

09:59 What does user testing do for you and your product?

17:13 Tools of the Trade

24:36 5 hot tips for Product Managers to participate in user testing

27:48 Cool Product Thing: Zero Fasting App Activity Tracker

31:10 Outro

📚 Resources referenced in this episode

Tools we love:

• Fullstory

• Hotjar

• UserTesting.com

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we reveal 7 time hacks for PMs! Era and Ajay are here to provide 7 non-filtered time hacks for PMs that are very busy folks. You'll learn about how to make space for critical tasks, how to eliminate unnecessary work without getting fired, and how to make it win-win.

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✍🏾 Show Notes

00:00 Intro

03:34 CELEBRATING 10 EPISODES OMG 🎉 🍻

08:46 1. Block out focus time on your calendar

13:31 2. Find work to do during status meetings

17:50 3. Use already scheduled meetings

22:02 4. Determine your priorities, CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL

27:18 5. Delegate to your team

30:08 6. Use calendar as to-do list

36:43 7. Keep running decks

40:03 Cool Product Thing: Yelp's Quote Feature

43:36 Outro

📚 Resources referenced in this episode

There are a number of great resources out there for time management. The ones we mentioned:

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Indistractable by Nir Eyal

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we answer Russell's question, "What makes for a well written epic?"! Era and Ajay are here to provide a non-filtered primer on what an epic is, the components of a typical epic, and how to write a good one.

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4:35 What is an Epic

8:10 3 main parts of an Epic

10:40 A real Epic use case

12:55 Characteristics of a well written Epic

15:27 How to decide Epic scope

20:32 Cool Product Thing: iPhone Pro line evolution (14 Pro)

📚 Resources referenced in this episode

Where Epics fit in organizationally. We stole this graphic from a great Atlassian article

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this week’s episode, we provide some guidance on how to transition 🔁 into product management! Era and Ajay are here to provide non-filtered advice on questions you should ask yourself to assess if PM is right for you. Also covered is common paths to moving into PM and their own stories of how they made the switch.

If you're already a PM, congrats! 🎉 Please share with anyone looking to make the change!

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✍🏾 Show Notes

6:00 How to tell if PM life is right for you

14:08 Mindsets that don’t work in PM life

19:55 How to transition into product management from school

22:28 Transition into product management from a product-adjacent role

24:17 How to transition into product management from a non-tech company

29:21 5 Skills you need to be a solid Product Manager

41:40 Key things you can do NOW to transition into product management

52:14 Cool Product Thing: Cognitive development & slow feeding dog toys 🐶

📚 Resources referenced in this episode

• Tips on how to diagnose issues with your product in Episode 7

• Mentally Simulating dog toys Era recommends, here & here.

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🍻 Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we answer Russell's question, "What’s your process for building strategy?" Era and Ajay are here to provide a non-filtered primer on what is a good strategy, what's a bad strategy, and the process for building a good one!

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7:26 Today’s “Cool Product Thing”

13:30 Show outline

14:07 Join our episode’s drinking game

18:30 What are the 3 components of a strategy

19:57 Diagnosis

22:22 Guiding policy

23:17 An actionable plan

23:45 Strategy example from UberX vs Lyft

29:15 How to know if a strategy is bad

37:00 Methodologies to build a strategy

35:54 How OKRs relate to a strategy

37:16 SWOT method for diagnosis

40:15 Salon style discussion for building a strategy

43:48 Check for wake to evaluate your final strategy

45:14 Share early and often to fine tune

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• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! This episode is a special one: our first interview. And what an interview to kick things off with one of our favorite people, Seth Hodgson! Seth is someone we’ve learned a lot from, and we’re looking forward to sharing what we’ve learned from him, with all of you! 🎉

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3:12 Seth’s early career milestones

10:43 Seth’s current career

The Art of Product Management 👩🏻‍🎨

13:13 What product management done well looks like

19:42 Things PMs do that drive Seth crazy

25:39 The skills of successful PM and PM-led teams

Experimentation 🧪

36:25 A Seth-style primer on experimentation

43:59 When to use Bayesian inference vs Frequentist (Null Hypothesis)

50:18 Common pitfalls of experimentation & product management

56:34 What is MDE and why you should care

1:00:56 Advice & resources for PMs starting out with experimentation

Instrumentation

1:04:16 Seth’s primer on instrumentation

1:11:07 What the hell is Event Storming & when is it useful

1:20:27 Common pitfalls of self-service analysis tools

1:24:14 Seth’s parting thoughts about metrics & just being a cool human PM

Resources referenced in this episode

Find Seth on LinkedIn!

MDE Calculator: https://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html

Seth’s book reco for PMs starting out with Experimentation: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

Seth references Ray Dalio’s: Principles in his parting thoughts on metrics

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we break down qualitative research, quantitative research and the relationship between the two. A trippy topic, and Era and Ajay are here to provide their non-filtered perspective.

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we break down "what the f is product management?" An excellent question, and Era and Ajay are here to provide their non-filtered perspective.

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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we dive deeper into working with designers this time, our very close partners. Sorry for the loooooooong delay, Ajay got sick (yay!) and that pushed everything back. More to come soon! Follow us for more, comment and let us know what else you'd like to learn or see:
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Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! In this episode, we dive deeper into working with engineers, some of our favorite folks. Sorry for the loooooooong delay, Ajay got sick (yay!) and that pushed everything back. More to come soon! Follow us for more, comment and let us know what else you'd like to learn or see:

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The inaugural episode! Join us as we introduce ourselves, the pod, and talk about System 1 & System 2 thinking from Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

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🧐 Do you miss happy hour in our new remote/hybrid work world? Are you new to product management? Are you interested in becoming a PM? Still trying to figure out who the f*@^ product managers are and what they do? Then you are in the right place, listening to the right pod!

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