The Product Podcast

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Data 101 with Credit Karma's former Lead Data Scientist Jun 05, 2017

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In this talk, Product School's founding Data for Manager's course instructor and curriculum designer offers an intro to this course, including how to collect, aggregate, and analyze data. He discusses how to understand not only who your users are but how they behave and how to take action via tests, experimentation and notifications. He also talks about understanding the product ecosystem, how tools interact and how to position analytics from a product perspective across your company.

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How to Growth Hack Your Product without Coding May 31, 2017

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Autopilot HQ's Josh Fechter discusses tactical techniques in gaining and retaining a strong user base. Understanding your users and how they discover and adopt your products is very important in building a product.

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Leveraging User Data with Betterment's PM May 29, 2017

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Distinguishing business critical events from user behavior is an important part of leveraging event tracking for product development. In this talk Matt Salefski, a Group Product Manager at Betterment, demoed funnels and discusses how and when to use SQL and Mixpanel for tracking events and behaviors.

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A PM’s Life in Experience Strategy with Disney's Former PM May 24, 2017

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Kathleen Cohen, former Product Manager at Disney, discussed overall Experience Strategy as it relates to Product Development. Her discussion covers video game, web, mobile, interactives, AR/VR and the expectation of a PM in those roles from within. With the convergence of medias and IoT, it’s only natural that a PM’s role is expected to have the 10,000 ft. view into integrated media products and their future lifecycle.

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Building High-Growth Products with Jobs-to-be-Done May 22, 2017

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"Satisfying customer needs better than the competitors in your market" is the key to launching high-growth products and the key to your success as a product manager. But, what is a customer need? Who is your real competition? What does it mean to be "satisfied?" And, by the way, what is a market? In this talk a Growth Partner at thrv, Jared Ranere, talked about how you'll learn how Jobs-to-be-Done answers the questions in a way that aligns your development team around your customer, gives you precise, measurable customer needs, and helps you know if your feature idea will deliver customer satisfaction before your team writes a line of code.

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Group Product Manager at Levi's Talks: Data for Beginners May 17, 2017

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As a PM you will want to know about Data Analytics and how to work with a team of data scientists to build a product users will love and trust. In this talk, Kristian Hansen, Group Product Manager at Levi's, talks about understanding the basics of data analytics and its use in start ups as well as large companies. He also discusses the importance of knowing how to frame problems for both data and engineering stakeholders and Interpret feedback from data team to communicate confidently with business stakeholders.

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Products Are About People by LinkedIn's Senior PM May 15, 2017

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Many people who want to become product managers worry about amassing technical expertise. During this talk, Jasper Sherman-Presser, Senior Product Manager for video at LinkedIn, argued that to be a great product manager, you first need to understand people. You also need to understand people's problems and desires in order to build products that address them. In addition, he said that PM's need to understand people's motivations to guide a team to build and deliver products and you need to be able to capture value in metrics that are people-centric.

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Open Source Product Management with Danny Rosen KEMP Tech PM May 10, 2017

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This talk was geared towards a non-technical audience interested in the magic and wonder of open source. The PM at KEMP Technologies, Danny Rosen, went over what open source is, why it's important, what it means to have an open source product and why it's important to customers. He discussed what open source actually means and the different types of open source products and business models that exist.

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Intro to Data Analytics with EA's Director of Product May 08, 2017

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Building an analytics strategy is crucial for every product manager. How do you build and implement an effective product analytics strategy that quantifies and drives product success and iteration? The Director of Product at Electronic Arts, Bertram Chan, talks about how data analytics is no longer a luxury, its a competitive and integral need for Product Managers. He also discussed how PM's can understand not only who your users are but how they behave.

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Product Management with PayPal Mobile App Creator May 03, 2017

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Ashish Toshniwal, PayPal mobile app creator and founder of Y Media Labs, shared the keys to successful agency-client relationships and how to execute customer research effectively. He also talked about the best practices for communicating throughout the product lifecycle.

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