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138 / The Science Behind Building Better Products, with Holly Hester-Reilly

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Holly Hester-Reilly
Product Science Group

As Holly Hester-Reilly explains, “Intuition isn’t magic. People who have good product intuition know this, because they’ve worked hard over time through lots of hard practice to build it up – and build better products in the process.” Holly is the founder and CEO of H2R Product Science (and a good friend of Product Momentum). …

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Holly Hester-Reilly
Product Science Group

137 / 3 Tips for Fostering a Culture of Change, with Zoia Kozakov

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Zoia Kozakov
JP Morgan Chase

Among the many hats product managers wear is that of change agent. In many respects, product management is change management. PMs always seem to be flexing their approach to new circumstances, adapting to evolving markets and technologies, and side-stepping organizational landmines. “It’s hard,” says Zoia Kozakov, “especially when the change you’re trying to bring about …

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Zoia Kozakov
JP Morgan Chase

136 / Product Operations: Why It’s More Important Now Than Ever, with Denise Tilles

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Denise Tilles
Grocket

As a profession, product managers have been battling through some pretty lean times of late. Layoffs in big tech, market uncertainty across the board, and steep competition for fewer vacancies keep many of us up at night. All the more reason, as Denise Tilles explains, that product operations is more important now than ever. In …

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Denise Tilles
Grocket

135 / The New PMO: Strategic Partner in Business Transformation, with Laura Barnard

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Laura Barnard
PMO Strategies

In this episode of Product Momentum, Laura Barnard invites us to imagine the strong business outcomes our organizations can realize when we create space for strategy and execution to work in concert, instead of at odds. Founder of PMO Strategies and author of The Impact Engine (available Sept. 2024), Laura has been a driving force …

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Laura Barnard
PMO Strategies

134 / Lessons in Product Leadership: The Art of Communication, with Gabrielle Bufrem

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Gabrielle Bufrem
Product Leadership Coach

When you’re communicating as a product leader, how often do you consider what your audience needs to hear…at that precise moment in time? How do you deliver your message in a way that they can understand? Product coach Gabrielle Bufrem, in her keynote at the New York Product Conference (NYPC), says that “communication is effective …

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Gabrielle Bufrem
Product Leadership Coach

133 / From Positioning to Sales Pitch: How to Make the Buying Process Easier, with April Dunford

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April Dunford
Ambient Strategy

As the saying goes, not to decide is to decide. And, as April Dunford explains in this episode of Product Momentum, ‘not to decide’ — that is, the customer’s own inability to make a decision — swipes 40-60% of the average B2B salesperson’s revenue pipeline. (source: The JOLT Effect, by Matthew Dixon). B2B selling is …

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April Dunford
Ambient Strategy

132 / 3 Ways AI Is Transforming Product Management, with Janna Bastow

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Janna Bastow
ProdPad

Integrating AI tools into the product management workflow isn’t about cutting humans out of the loop. There’s nothing in the product manager playbook saying, “yeah, yeah, just build this idea and ship it.” Instead, as ProdPad co-founder and CEO Janna Bastow suggests, use AI tools to remove some of the grunt work so that we …

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Janna Bastow
ProdPad

131 / Shift Left: Integrating a Security Mindset Early in the Software Development Life Cycle, with Paul Connaghan

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Paul Connaghan
RiverSafe

When product development teams build new software tools and systems, they like to start with the end in mind by nudging quality assurance and security scanning closer to the early stages of the process. Paul Connaghan, Principal Application Security Consultant at RiverSafe in London, UK, says this “shift left” approach goes straight to the heart …

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Paul Connaghan
RiverSafe

130 / Discovering the Essence of Product Strategy, with Roman Pichler

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Roman Pichler
Pichler Consulting

Product strategy is the guiding light that illuminates the path to success for any product. However, articulating and executing this strategy is often easier said than done, says product management expert Roman Pichler. In this episode of Product Momentum, Roman shares valuable insights into the essence of product strategy and how to effectively navigate its …

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Roman Pichler
Pichler Consulting

129 / Strategic UX: The Path to Outcome-Driven Design, with Jared Spool

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Jared Spool
Center Centre

When Jared Spool first visited Product Momentum a few years ago, he talked about the struggle designers feel when they’re directed to add new features to a design without first understanding the problem to be solved. “Great designers don’t fall in love with their solutions,” he advised us. “They fall in love with their problems.” …

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Jared Spool
Center Centre

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