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Product for Product Management

By: Matt Green & Moshe Mikanovsky
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  • Product for Product is a show hosted by Matt Green and Moshe Mikanovsky aimed at helping listeners navigate the growing depth of product management tools while also providing our insights into the categories that make up the PM role. We will take listeners with us on a journey of discovery through areas of product analytics, road mapping, productivity and many others. If you want to keep up with the latest in product management come along for the ride!

    Connect with us on LinkedIn:
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Episodes
  • EP 107 - Product Management in IOT with Ricardo Vidal

    EP 107 - Product Management in IOT with Ricardo Vidal
    May 29 2024
    Managing products that have both software and hardware is always more tricky than those with software only. In the past it was limited to servers and communication devices, and to very specialized machinery like medical devices, transportation and such. With the advancements of reduced computing chip sizes and improved speed and powers, along with cloud computing, IoT (Internet of Things) has taken our life to an entirely different level with new smart devices that can help us anywhere we are. From home devices to control things at home and provide reports of power consumption, to smart cars, and whole smart cities.For most product managers that have worked only on software digital products, it is hard to imagine what are the added complexities created with the addition of hardware development to the mix.

    On this episode we met with Ricardo Vidal, Head of Product at Poppy, a Canadian company building IoT devices that provide instant, accurate HVAC performance monitoring for any indoor space, used by commercial properties and corporations to save energy costs, decarbonize buildings and keep occupants healthy.With a background in bioengineering, and then developing software solutions for the scientific community, moving into IoT was a challenge Ricardo willingly took, and he learned so many lessons building the different generations of Poppy.

    Join us as we learn from Ricardo some of those lessons, and tools used by IoT product teams:
    • Understanding the constraints when working in Hardware, such as; the process, time frames and when there is more pressure because of these constraints, access to materials and the supply chain, materials and manufacturing costs,
    • Learn the terminology used by mechanical and electrical engineers
    • Security issues that are amplified with connection from anywhere
    • Specialized tools for hardware development, to manage Bill of Materials, cost of goods, change management, documentation etc.
    • Connecting our IoT devices to the cloud via common Cloud APIs
    • Firmware considerations for constant needed updates
    • Using hardware prototypes for experimentation and A/B testing
    • Grafana - real time data sensor testing to alert clients if there sensors are not working properly
    • And much more!

    You can connect with Riocardo at:
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvidal/
    • X: @rvidal
    • Poppy: Poppy.com
    You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin: -
    • Product for Product Podcast - linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast
    • Matt Green - linkedin.com/in/mattgreenanalytics/
    • Moshe Mikanovsky - linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/





    Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.

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    51 mins
  • EP 106 - Break-Free with Henry Latham

    EP 106 - Break-Free with Henry Latham
    May 15 2024
    Henry Latham is a good friend of the podcast, and we talked with him in the past on a few occasions (episode 25 - Tools for Aspiring Product Managers, episode 47 - No Code Platforms - Softr, and episode 65 New book: Product Strategy is Simple). We are happy to have Henry on the show again, introducing his new venture and program Break Free.

    In recent year, Henry have identified a trend in the Product Management world, where many product people shows dissatisfaction with their career, moving from one company to the next, trying to find the best culture to work at and create impact in the world, only to be discouraged by organizational culture that didn’t empower them and the rest of the team to build meaningfully.
    This is when he decided to pivot his focus into helping the product management community to create their own destiny, by helping aspiring self-employed individuals, who mainly come from the product management world (but not limited to them), to build their own micro-business from 0 to 1st sale in 48 hours.

    In the episode, we talked with Henry about his pivot, and what the program, Break Free, is all about:
    • Why did he make the shift/pivot from ProdMBA to build it
    • The challenges of product managers out there
    • Reasons, or more like excuses, that product people use to not starting a new business on the side
    • The MVP that he started Break Free with
    • Learnings from starting business to Product Management and vice versa
    • Who is Break Free for?
    • The 5 steps of the Break Free Sprint
    • The importance of product managers selling their own products
    • Starting small as a service that is not scalable rather than thinking big right up front and failing
    • And much more!
    You can connect with Henry at:
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrylatham/
    • Break Free: BreakFreeSprints.com

    You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin:
    • Product for Product Podcast - linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast
    • Matt Green - linkedin.com/in/mattgreenanalytics/
    • Moshe Mikanovsky - linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/

    Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.

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    55 mins
  • EP 105 - Product Momentum Gap with Dave Martin

    EP 105 - Product Momentum Gap with Dave Martin
    May 1 2024
    Have your worked for a product company where the beginning was amazing - everyone were aligned towards the same goal, the product that the team built was an exact fit for the problems that it’s users had, and everything just came out nicely - but then, as the company grew, things didn’t fit as well, new features were not adopted, and overall, the feeling is that you lost the awesome momentum you had?This is what Dave Martin calls the Product Momentum Gap.

    In this episode, Matt and Moshe are hosting Dave, Outcome Leadership Coach at Right to Left, veteran product leader and fractional CPO, who co-authored the book “The Product Momentum Gap: Bringing together product strategy and customer value” with our past guest Andrea Saez (episode 22), to talk about this problem, and a framework he developed to overcome it.

    There are many reasons why companies fall into the Product Momentum Gap. It can be due to confirmation biases, collective bias (following the loudest person in the room), product strategy that doesn’t commit to a specific solution, amongst other reasons.Identifying the problem is the first step in moving forward to fix it. Then, using the Product VCP (Value Creation Plan) framework, developed by Dave, companies can align their strategy to an actionable plan that will eventually change users’ behavior.

    Join us on the episode to learn:
    • How did Dave started his career in product leadership
    • The product craft vs product leadership
    • What is the Product Momentum Gap
    • More problems that cause companies to fall into the Product Momentum Gap
    • The Product VCP framework - how to execute the strategy
    • How the Product VCP was created over time and with over 50 companies
    • How to handle situations where companies don’t want to take the time to stop and go through the process of defining the Product VCP
    • The importance of discovery throughout the process
    • And so much more
    • You can connect with Dave at:
      • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrdavemartin/
      • Buy the book: The Product Momentum Gap: Bringing together product strategy and customer value (affiliate link)
      • Right to Left: www.righttoleft.io
      • Outcome Habits newsletter: www.outcomehabits.com
    • You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin:
      • Product for Product Podcast - https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast
      • Matt Green - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgreenanalytics/
      • Moshe Mikanovsky - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/
    • Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests, and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.
    Please leave us a review and feedback ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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    43 mins
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