One Knight in Product
Episodes
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
An interview with Marty Cagan.
Marty is a renowned Product Management thought leader. He has had an illustrious career at Netscape, eBay, his own original startup (acquired by IBM) and then founding the Silicon Valley Product Group consultancy. He has worked with hundreds of companies to help them build products right. He's also a widely read blogger, and author of a best-selling book on how to build products; "Inspired - How to Create Tech Products Customers Love". Now he's back with co-author and SVPG partner Chris Jones, with "Empowered - Oridinary People, Extraordinary Products" which aims to do for organisations what Inspired did for teams.
I could have spoken to Marty for hours, but here are the highlights:
How come Marty started SVPG after working for some of the best tech companies
How he got good at Product, and the role of luck in that journey
Why he started blogging and how that helped him get his thoughts in order for his books
How he's such a Product Guy that he evens writes his books iteratively
How come the 2nd edition of Inspired was basically a total rewrite, and whether the 1st edition has anything useful in it
Some of the challenges that companies face when trying to be truly Product-led
What to do when your company really doesn't get Product
How to persuade the leadership team that maybe this stuff actually does work
Why he is so passionate about inclusion & diversity in tech, and how he's trying to help
And much more!
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
An interview with Christine Itwaru. Christine is Senior Director of Product Operations at Pendo. Christine is a problem-solving, Product-obsessed New Yorker who has swapped the Big Apple for the City of Oaks as Senior Director of Product Operations for Pendo. We talk about the fundamentals of Product Ops, how it works at Pendo, the types of people you need, what they can do for you, and when you need them.
We talk about a lot:
How she traded the Big Apple for the City of Oaks, moving to Raleigh, North Carolina to work with Pendo
The exciting challenges and opportunities of working for a hypergrowth SaaS company
What Product Operations is and how it can help a company as it scales, and how Christine made it happen
The core skills and mindset needed to work in Product Operations
The difference between being data-driven & data-informed, or whether there's any difference at all
The importance of cross-functional communication for Product Ops, and Product teams in general
Some of the challenges being a woman in tech and how she's trying to help solve them
And much more!