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Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#124 The Vision-Based Product StrategyIn today's episode, titled "The Vision-Based Product Strategy," our hosts Alex and Christian tackle the challenges and importance of having a clear product vision. They discuss the common pitfalls of defining a vision and how it can lead to misalignment within the company. Christian challenges the traditional approach of creating a single inspiring sentence and emphasizes the significance of also including the "what" and the "why" in the product vision. The conversation evolves into distinguishing between a company's mission and its vision, and how these two aspects need to be aligned to drive success. Get ready for an insightful...
2023-10-1918 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#122 Don't Get Stuck on ToolingIn today's episode, Alex and Christian shed light on the growing emphasis on tools in the industry, particularly in the realms of design and product management. While tools can be immensely helpful and time-saving, the duo reminds us of the importance of not neglecting the craft itself. Join us as we explore the relationship between tooling, skills development, and the enduring need for human judgment and understanding in the product creation process. So grab your notepads and get ready for some insightful discussions.
What we've covered:
(00:18) Love for software tooling and emerging...
2023-10-0515 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#121 Bold Move: Airbnb's Shift Away from Product ManagersIn this episode, Alex and Christian bring you an insightful discussion about a hot topic in the industry. They dive into the recent announcement by the CEO of Airbnb, who boldly stated that the company is moving away from product managers. They explore the implications of this decision and its potential impact on the role of product management. They also share their thoughts on the evolving nature of the product manager role and how organizations can optimize their workforce for efficient product development. Join us as we unpack the CEO's vision for a more design-driven company and the possible...
2023-09-2814 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#114 AI PMs Will Take Over Your Job - Ofir Natan @PracticalAIIn this episode, Alex and Christian are joined by the insightful Ofir, a Chief Product Officer with a deep passion for AI. They explore the evolving role of AI in product management and design, discussing how AI capabilities can empower users, boost productivity, and unlock new value. From AI copilot assistants to generative AI tools, they provide practical examples and valuable resources for integrating AI into your work. Join us as we dive into the AI revolution and discover how to develop an AI mindset in the world of product development.
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2023-05-2942 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#111 The Product Discovery 101This week, Alex talks about how he does product discovery and how he and his team managed to establish a new process within their company.
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2023-04-2421 min
Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#107 From Design to Production: The Importance of Cross-Functional CollaborationProduct management and design collaboration is what we've talked most about in the past. The same goes for product and engineering collaboration.
In this episode, we talk about how product designers and engineers should collaborate to ensure seamless delivery to production.
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2023-03-2715 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#102 The Importance of User-Centricity in Product Development - Panel Discussion @BerlinProduct Conference2023Christian was at the Berlin Product Conference 2023 and hosted a panel discussion about the importance of user-centricity in product development. The whole conversation was recorded including the QA session.
Panel Guests:
Henning Witzel - Head of Product Design @NewStore
Benjamin Keyser - CPO @Latana
Vamsi Krishna Wuppalapati - Interims CPO @Phyntelligence
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2023-02-1555 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#93 Stop Solutionizing & Start Problem-SolvingMaybe you've experienced something similar...
Many times people work on features or solutions... if you ask the question though: "What's the problem" you are not getting a real answer...
In this episode, we discussed why people are tempted to jump to solutions and how you can be more problem/customer-centric.
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2022-11-0121 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#92 Design ThinkingAfter more than 91 episodes we finally talked about design thinking. This time, Alex got interviewed about his opinion on design thinking and how to apply it.
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2022-10-2613 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#91 The Company CompassThere is a tool... called the company compass or medicine wheel. It's used for strategic planning and defining clear roles within a company, project, or group. In this episode, we talk about the new framework we've discovered and how to apply it in product.
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2022-10-1817 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#90 Managing Performance IssuesThis time, we talk about how to best approach when your team members are struggling with their performance. We looked at questions like:
What best to do?
What do the people need?
How can you empower them?
Tune in to learn more!
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2022-09-1227 min
Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#89 Struggling With Your BossWhat to do if you're in trouble with your leader(ship team)? Can individual contributors make a change? Is it even their job? Or, should you just move on and let it go? This time we talked about what product people can and may should do if they want to change the direction of their leaders.
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2022-08-2927 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#88 Instagram's Failed Update & RollbackYou may have noticed that Instagram updated its app and rolled it back to the previous version. We took a closer look at what has happened, especially on the product & engineering side.
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2022-08-0818 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#87 What we've learned from our mentors (and what not)In this episode, we talk about the importance of having and working with experienced people who coach or mentor you.
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2022-08-0220 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#86 Why You Shouldn't Ignore AccessibilityAccess Granted! No, it's not about that kind of accessibility. We talk about what most product & design teams call edge cases or "we can ship that later."
We believe people with disabilities and restrictions need to be fully included in the product planning and development process, especially for products that are already live and are being used by customers.
Tune in to hear our perspectives on understanding all customers and how to plan feature and product releases.
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2022-07-0419 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#85 Key Responsibilities of a Leader (and Whatnot)You can't help others if you can't help yourself. You can't manage others if you can't manage yourself.
We've touched on those quotes a couple of times in previous episodes. In this conversation, we dive into a leader's role and what a leader should expect from their employees. Clarity about the role of a leader is the key to defining their employees' role.
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2022-06-2714 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#84 Web 3.0: Hype or Future?Many people update their LinkedIn profiles and add new positions in Web 3.0 startups. That raised the question for Alex whether he should quit his job to work on a Web 3.0 startup. We took a deeper look into that and discussed what Web 3.0 actually is and if it's a hype or trend you shouldn't miss.
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2022-06-2021 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#83 Full-Time vs. Freelancer: Why we do what we doThere is one big question many people asking themselves currently: Should I work full-time or as a freelancer? In this conversation, we talk about why we're doing what we're doing. It's not about what is better! It's about what motivates us to work full-time or as a freelancer.
Tune in to get a different perspective on the two sides.
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2022-06-1316 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#82 Product in Times of Uncertainty & LayoffsThe world goes crazy... corona, war, inflation, and many more things are happening right now. The impact on the economy is huge. Due to the financial situation, many companies need to save budget and start firing people to save costs. At the same time, many business models and strategic plans start to break too.
In this episode, we talk about how you as an employee and a company can make the best out of the situation and convert it into a great opportunity!
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2022-06-0622 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#81 Rather Burn Your Money Than Paying for a BootcampThere is so much to say and write about our opinion on boot camps. However, the best way is to tune in ;)
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2022-05-3017 min
Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#80 Leadership self care is neededWe've talked about how important it is to take of yourself if you're a leader in this episode. How do you want to help people if you can't help yourself? What should you expect from your employees? What are your primary responsibilities as a leader?
Tune in for a deep dive into the (product) leadership role and self care.
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2022-05-2318 min
Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#79 We are back!It has been a while since our last episode. We both were very busy with our jobs, side projects, and vacation recently. Nevertheless, we decided to regroup and continue with new episodes about great topics. Tune in to get the latest update and what's coming up next.
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2022-05-1609 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#78 Intuition & product management - with Projjal Ghatak, CEO of OnLoopIt's not always about data. Sometimes, you need to listen to your gut!
This week the Product Bakers interviewed Projjal Ghatak talking about how to solve customers' problems and how to bring in the right people into a company.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro
02:00 - Intro Projjal Ghatak
04:20 - Starting a company based on a problem
06:55 - Dealing with intuition vs. data
12:30 - Networking to find the right people
17:10 - Understand and define good problems
25:00 - Company strategy: quality vs. growth
28:30 - Delivering value to customers
30:40 - Creating a great advisory board
34:45 - CE...
2021-12-2336 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#77 The trap of building the first "solution"In this episode, Alex and Christian discussed the danger of falling in love with your first idea or solution.
Table of content:
00:30 - The importance of quality
03:30 - The of too much MVP thinking
06:30 - Not enough vs. too much data
09:00 - 8 sketches, 8 minutes
11:20 - Timeboxing research & prototyping
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2021-11-2614 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#76 Follow up: Asking stupid questions & playing dumbDoing product management isn't easy. Even though, with gazillions of books that people have read, they can sometimes not execute the knowledge. In this episode, Christian and Alex took a deeper look at why that's the case.
Table of content:
00:30 - Why is product management so hard?
02:40 - Chicken & egg problem
03:30 - Collaboration & soft skills are essential
06:50 - Regular reminders
08:15 - Making a change as an individual
10:55 - Making compromises
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2021-11-1514 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#75 Asking powerful stupid questions - with Paul Ortchanian, CEO @BainpublicAsking great questions is a real-life superpower! Sometimes though, it's important to take a step back and ask (powerful) stupid questions, especially when you are new in a role as a product person.
In this episode, the Product Bakers talked to Paul about coaching CEOs to develop a product mindset. Despite that, they've talked about what product people can do to establish more product thinking.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro
01:50 - Intro Paul
04:45 - The ego of founders
10:50 - What founders need to hear
16:10 - Influential product management
22:35 - Asking dumb questions
32:35 - W...
2021-11-0736 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#74 Roadmaps: Share Them With Your Customers!Public roadmaps became a hot topic in the past. Christian & Alex decided to speak about the benefits of sharing your roadmap with your customers and how to define it in a way that they will understand your future plans.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro & chit chat
02:35 - Transparency is key
03:20 - The idea of "open startup"
05:50 - Customers love knowing your plans
07:15 - Using good terminology
11:25 - Getting feedback from your customers
13:30 - What you should not share publicly
16:00 - Don't be afraid to share your plans
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2021-10-2520 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#73 One year Product Bakery! 🥳 Let's do a retrospective 🧐The Product Bakery podcast was started on the 10th of September 2020. After one year of podcasting and many interviews, Christian and Alex sat down to take a couple of looks back...
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2021-10-0411 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#72 Defining a Data-Driven Product Strategy - Konrad Heimpel, VP Product & Data @GetsafeThe whole insurance space is very slow. At least it used to be! Konrad Heipmel's mission @Getsafe is to disrupt the insurance market. As VP of Data & Product, he shared with the Product Bakers how they focus on data to build a product that fits the market needs and solves the customer pain points.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro
02:20 - Intro of Konrad & the insurance space
07:00 - The biggest challenges of the industry
10:40 - Working with product principles
13:45 - How to scale up domains & teams
16:15 - The relevance of data
18:15 - Establishing a data mindset...
2021-09-2735 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#71 Forming & working with task forcesMany companies and teams want to become faster and speed up projects. That's a topic Christian & Alex are regularly faced with. This time they spoke about the concept of project-specific teams (task forces) and how to form them as well as their pros & cons.
Table of content:
00:30 - Example: Redesigning an app
02:45 - The concept of a task force
05:10 - How to form a task force
08:00 - Good project management is key
12:40 - Outsourcing projects to agencies
16:35 - Estimating scope and delivery
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2021-09-1619 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#70 Remote product management & designAlex and Christian did manage for a long time to meet and record in person again. Therefore, they picked up the topic of working remove vs. being onsite. How can and should teams decide what's best in terms of tooling and location? Tune in to learn more!
Table of content:
00:30 - Meeting in person
05:05 - What's best to be creative?
08:40 - 1:1s vs team meetings
12:25 - Industry and professions are relevant
17:25 - Cross-functional teams onsite vs. remote
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2021-09-0920 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#69 Staying in Touch With Your StakeholdersCommunication can be the hardest work sometimes. Due to the fact that a lot of companies moved to remote work, it's not getting easier. This time Christian and Alex picked up the whole topic of stakeholder management and what product people can do to bond and keep up alignment.
Table of content:
00:30 - Is communicating getting harder?
02:45 - Different people with different agendas
06:35 - Stakeholder awareness
09:40 - The first step to good stakeholder management
11:45 - Being proactive instead of passive
13:45 - Planning and preparing communication
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2021-08-3018 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#68 Taking Care of Your Work-Life BalanceAlex is close to going on vacation. Therefore, he and Christian caught up on the whole topic of work-life balance and discussed what it needs to maintain a healthy balance.
Table of content:
00:30 - Alex going on vacation
02:50 - The importance of work-life balance
05:25 - Working on vacation
07:00 - Taking care of your employees
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2021-08-2309 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#67 Breaking User Behavior PatternsSometimes, the products we use seem to become more complex than easier. The product bakers discussed why that happens and the reasons.
Table of content:
00:30 - iOS 15 and the safari URL bar
07:20 - Strategy & big picture vs. UX
09:30 - Designing against the customer
13:00 - The danger of copying trends
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2021-08-2316 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#66 How Smart Can Artificial Intelligence Be?This time, Christian and Alex talked about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its advantages and potential downsides.
Table of Content:
00:30 - Turn off your notification
01:55 - What AIs do already these days
04:50 - Strong vs. weak AI
08:00 - Losing human interactions
11:50 - Good data & diverse teams
Book recommendation:
Competing in the Age of AI
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2021-08-0914 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#65 How to Organize Yourself BetterIn this episode, Christian and Alex talked about how they organize their time and todos.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro
02:30 - Using spare time to be productive
04:10 - Color coding the calendar
05:10 - Blocking time in the calendar
07:45 - Declining meetings
09:45 - Manage the stakeholders
12:10 - Documentation & tooling
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2021-08-0315 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#64 Prioritizing without strategy won't work - with Christian Idiodi, Partner @SVPGChristian Idiodi is a partner at the Silicon Valley Product Group. With his experience, he helps product and leadership teams across the globe to solve their customer problems. In this episode, he shares the biggest challenges that product teams have and how especially leaders can help and empower product people to solve those.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Intro
02:10 - Intro Christian Idiodi
03:50 - The biggest challenges product people have
08:25 - Missing empowerment from leadership teams
13:35 - Prioritizing doesn't work without strategic alignment
19:25 - Supporting the leadership team as a product manager
25:45 - Keeping th...
2021-07-2735 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#63 Are tech products becoming unethical?This time Alex and Christian focused on a topic that they haven't talked about at all. Ethics! Both discuss how current products tempt to become more unethical and what to do about it.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode intro
02:10 - Dominated by white people
06:40 - Ignoring minorities
08:55 - Balancing ethics in your organization
09:50 - Are product principles a solution?
11:30 - No regulations in tech
14:25 - Discrimination on Twitter
Books links:
Technically Wrong
Ruined by Design
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2021-07-1916 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#62 Book review - The One ThingChristian recently read the book "The One Thing" which reminded him how important it is to focus only on one thing. Together with Alex, they've discussed the key learning of the book and how to apply it to your day-to-day product life.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro
01:15 - Multi-tasking & context switching
05:50 - Identifying your own one thing
08:05 - Focusing on only one thing
09:30 - Tips to get started
Book link: The One Thing
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2021-07-0811 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#61 Why case studies make you lose your best candidatesThe Product Bakers touched a couple of times on the topic of case studies as part of the hiring process. Alex has a very strong opinion when it comes to overall candidate experience. Therefore, they've decided to dedicate this episode to talk about the downsides of case studies and why it makes good candidates not start working for your company.
Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk
01:30 - The downsides of case studies
05:40 - Understanding how candidates think
07:50 - Why companies need to rethink their hiring process
12:30 - Respect peoples' time
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2021-07-0116 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#60 - Changing organizational modelsIn this episode, the Product Bakers discussed their experiences around structuring organizations in hyper-growth and what mistakes leadership teams should avoid doing.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro episode
02:40 - Basics to structure an organization
04:40 - The Spotify model
06:45 - Why copying models don't work
08:35 - Taking a look at the company culture
10:25 - Mistakes to avoid
11:15 - Autonomy vs. anarchy
16:05 - Summary
Article & book recommendations:
https://www.christianstrunk.com/blog/organic-organizations
Exponential Organizations
Scale Up
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2021-06-2417 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#59 Why You Need to Design Strategically - with Jill Lin, Staff Product Designer @Bain & CompanyJill is a strategic and visionary ex-Experience Director with over 12 years of experience. She currently works for Bain & Company as one of their most senior Designers in EMEA.
Throughout her career, she has led and helped international companies and start-ups to innovate, to instill a human-centric design approach, and to grow. She designs interactions at the intersection of people, products, and environments, and brings out incremental and revolutionary changes for the people she designs for.
She's worked in London, New York, Abu Dhabi, and Taipei. Her clients include Sony, Tiffany & Co., Kellogg's, BP, BT, Jaguar...
2021-06-1738 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#58 We are all biasedBiases are part of human nature. In this episode, Alex discussed with Christian the importance of understanding and identifying your own bias.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Intro & small talk
02:10 - Asking biased question during interviews
04:10 - Common "biased" mistakes
05:50 - Stereotypes
07:05 - Being over-excited
09:25 - Disproving your biased opinion
11:50 - Understanding the most relevant biases
Article about biases:
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/user-research/how-to-overcome-cognitive-bias-in-ux-research/
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2021-06-1114 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#57 The Value of Good Content Design - with Jonathon Colman, Senior Group Design Manager @IntercomI don't care who does the work; I do care that we solve the problem! That was one of the great quotes from Jonathon talking about what content design is and why it's so important to think about it.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Jonathon discussed how to establish content design in a company and what positive impact it has on the UX and success of a product/business.
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Table of content:
00:30 - Episode Summary
01:40 - Intro Jonathon
02:55 - The definition of content design
08:25 - Collabora...
2021-06-0343 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#56 Landing a job in product (PM & PD)Based on questions from the community and general observations the Product Bakers decided to talk about how to land a job in product. They focused on topics such as searching for a job, preparing for an interview, as well as some dos and don'ts for the CV.
Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk & intro
03:30 - Applying as junior vs. senior
04:15 - What makes a good CV stand out (and why)
09:25 - 1 to 5 ratings in CVs (spoiler: NO GO!)
13:20 - Mocked interviews & alternative ways to prepare
15:40 - Applying for the right companies
18:15 - Portfolios for prod...
2021-05-3120 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#55 Starting a new PM position - with Shaun Russell, Product CoachStarting a new job as a Product Manager can be very challenging. Especially, if you don't have a mentor a someone who guides you through the process of becoming a PM. Shaun Russell made it to his mission to support people on that journey as a product coach.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Shaun discussed the challenges people are facing when starting a new PM position and how to overcome them.
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00:30 - Episode Intro
02:30 - Intro Shaun
05:30 - Starting a new PM position
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2021-05-2740 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#54 Giving Product Direction With a Product Strategy - Nacho Bassimo, Director of Product @XingNacho works for more than 12 years in Product Management. One of his key takeaways after more than a decade was, that the product strategy is the most undervalued tool to make a product company successful. He decided to structure and share all his knowledge in his recently launched book: Product Direction.
In this episode, the Product Bakers and Nacho make a deep dive into how to define a product strategy and how to communicate and share it with the whole company to get full buy-in.
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2021-05-2040 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#53 Scrum vs. KanbanThis time the Product Bakers picked up a frequently asked question from the community and talked about the agile frameworks Scrum and Kanban. Christian highlighted the differences and gave some tips on what framework you can get started with.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode intro
02:10 - Agile frameworks
03:35 - Scrum vs. Kanban
04:35 - Agile = not changing the plan all the time
07:25 - Velocity vs. throughput
09:00 - Planning & estimating
10:45 - Getting started with scrum
12:30 - Kanban for experts?
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2021-05-1714 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#52 Kickstarting a business without technical background - with Richard & Ben, Founders @MOHARARichard and Ben both love working with people and startups. It became their mission to help people with great ideas and minor to no technical knowledge to make their dreams come true. However, not every business idea is necessarily a good idea. Therefore they support founder teams with everything they need from product discovery, building the product to shipping it to their future customers.
In this episode they've talked about the importance and the process of validating business ideas, setting up teams for success, and what it needs to build a trust relationship between external agencies and...
2021-05-1348 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#51 Product review - JIRA and how to set it up for successAfter another dinner, the Product Bakers decided to do another product review. This they took a deeper look at Atlassian's product JIRA and how to set it up in the right way.
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00:30 - Small talk
03:25 - Love it or hate it
06:10 - JIRA & working agile
07:00 - JIRA classic & its terrible UX
11:00 - Defining workflows and projects for success & scale
14:15 - Who should manage & own JIRA?
16:00 - Cross-team collaboration & reporting
19:30 - Two tips to better use JIRA
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2021-05-1021 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#50 Collaborating as Product Manager & Designer - with Yoav & Tudor @ParkNowThe Product Bakers talked the first time to another Product Manager & Design "couple." Yoav (PM) and Tudor (PD) share their experience about working together on projects and how they split responsibilities and maintaining a trustful relationship.
In this episode, they've caught up on topics such as design review, prioritization, and design sprints.
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00:30 - Episode summary
02:35 - Intro Yoav & Tudor
05:00 - Their day-to-day business
06:50 - Team setup & collaboration
08:50 - The key for good collaboration
11:45 - Data for better decision making
15:50 - What design needs from product for...
2021-05-0640 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#49 Should you be using Personas?During dinner, Alex and Christian had a discussion about personas and the common mistakes people do while working with them. They decided to continue this conversation in this episode and dive a bit deeper into the whole world of personas.
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00:30 - Are personas the right way?
04:00 - Slicing personas instead of working with one
06:00 - Jobs to be done
07:30 - Understanding customer problems instead of assuming
13:10 - User vs. persona
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2021-05-0315 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#48 Managing design system projects - with Varya StepanovaVarya started her career as a Frontend Developer and was always passionate and engaged in working with design & frontend components before design systems were invented. At some point, she decided to use her knowledge and focusing on helping companies and the community on building design systems in the right way and understand the value.
In this episode, Varya talks about how to manage a design project in the most structured way and how to convince senior leadership teams of its value based on data.
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00:30 - Episod...
2021-04-2935 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#47 What I've learned as a PM working with designersAlex talked to Christian about his past experiences working with Designers. Christian shared his story about how he developed a good eye and understanding of UI and UX.
Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk
01:45 - Christian's design history
06:20 - Working together with a Designer
07:50 - How design skills help Product Managers
08:20 - Keeping an open & honest relationship
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2021-04-2610 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#46 Setting up a hiring strategy for scale - with Daniel & Robert @ready2orderDaniel & Robert working at ready2order as Director of Product and Talent Acquisition Lead. They both have the mission to build an amazing product with great people. Daniel is on board for more than 5 years and Robert joined 7 months ago to streamline hiring processes for all departments and especially Product Management & Design.
In this episode, they share how they defined and implemented a new hiring strategy to find the right people at the right time.
Table of content:
00:30 - Episode summary
01:40 - Intro Daniel Ibrahim & Robert O'Donoghue
03:35 - How hiring has c...
2021-04-2244 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#45 Coaching Product Managers & Designers Part IIIn the second part of the coaching vs. managing series, Alex interview Christian about coaching practices as an external and unbiased coach. Christian talks about how to identify and define goals together with his coachees as well as deep-diving into asking good and the right questions.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Alex
01:20 - Unbiased coaching
03:45 - Why product people call a coach
04:40 - Defining and working towards goals
07:15 - Asking the W's (who, what, by when)
08:55 - What are good questions?
11:40 - Therapy vs. coaching
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2021-04-1913 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#44 The Power of Great Product Marketing - Martina Lauchengco, Partner @Silicon Valley GroupIn this episode, Christian and Alex dive deep into the world of product market fit and the pivotal role that product marketing plays in its success. Joined by special guest Martina, an experienced product marketer, they explore the complexities of finding the right market for a product, the importance of trust and customer feedback, and the distinct roles of product management and product marketing. With insights from Silicon Valley Product Group and Martina's expertise, they discuss strategies for effective product marketing, the challenges of high-velocity product cycles, and the future of this crucial function in the tech industry. So...
2021-04-1545 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#43 Podcast tooling & product review: DescriptFollowing up on the previous episode, Christian and Alex share what podcasting tools they use and how the process of creating an episode works.
Next to that they followed up on their product review format and took a deeper look into the tool Descript.com.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro podcast tooling
01:55 - Anchor.fm for podcast distribution
02:00 - Zencastr.com for recording
03:35 - Adobe Audition for the raw cut
04:45 - Descript to finalize the episode
06:20 - Squarespace for our website
08:00 - Deep-dive into Descript functionality
16:45 - Rating Descript from 1 to 5 Descript
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2021-04-1218 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#42 Starting a podcast as a Product Team 🥐A while ago the Product Bakers have promised to talk about how they started the Product Bakery. In this episode, Alex and Christian share how they started this project and the processes they set up to manage themselves.
Next to that, they talk about how they interate on the podcast format based on the feedback they get from their community.
Table of content:
00:30 - Small talk
02:25 - Podcast Alex & Christian are listening to
05:50 - Product Bakery's problem statement
06:50 - From the idea to execution
09:20 - 2 team members with different skills
10:30 - Bi...
2021-04-0815 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#41 Coaching Product Managers & Designers Part IThe product bakers decided to talk about coaching product managers & designers as a leader over two episodes. In this episode, Christian interviews Alex to talk about his experience of being a manager and coach at the same time.
Alex shares his point of view of the thin line between managing people and working toward business goals vs. coaching, leading, and empowering people.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Christian
01:15 - Coaching & managing people
04:00 - Different types of employees (designers)
05:35 - Coaching vs. managing
08:30 - Radical candor to help people improving
11:45 - Asking the right (non-leading) q...
2021-04-0513 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#40 Case study: Optimizing churn for a product at scale - with Mathias KlugeThis is the first case study where the Product Bakers made a deep-dive into a real-world project with Product Lead Mathias Kluge. Mathias shared how he and his team identified churn reasons and the process of finding solutions.
Besides reducing churn by over 40%, Mathias faced also many challenges and made a lot of learnings which are shares in this episode.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Mathias Kluge (Matze)
03:05 - From Product Design to Product Management
03:55 - When to start looking at churn
06:35 - Defining, gathering, and analyzing data
11:25 - Creating hypothesis with yo...
2021-04-0143 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#39 Starting a new leadership positionChristian was curious and asked Alex what the key things are he takes care of in his first days as a fresh leader joining a new company. They touched upon the topic of strategy, tooling, and getting to know the leadership team and staff.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Christian
01:40 - What to look at when you apply for a new leadership role
04:30 - Getting to know the leadership team & your staff
07:00 - Reviewing the strategy & understanding decisions
10:05 - Alining on tools
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2021-03-2914 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#38 Climbing the confidence ladder with Lean UX - with Josh Seiden, Consultant & AuthorJosh Seiden is a designer, strategy consultant, coach, and author. He started his career in the early 90s. Since then a lot of things have changed. That's why Josh decided to write and share his experience, and latest observations in amazing books such as "Lean UX" or "Outcomes over Output."
In this episode, Josh discusses with the Product Bakers everything about Lean UX and how to work with hypotheses and problem statements. They've also touched upon the topic of lean experimentation to validate ideas as quickly as possible.
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00:30 - In...
2021-03-2537 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#37 Don’t prioritize… say NO!This week Alex picked up the topic of prioritizing and saying no to stakeholders and customers. Christian explains in this episode where to start before you make a decision (saying no) and how to say no in the right way.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro by Alex
03:10 - Self-awareness and doing your homework first
05:20 - Prioritizing against OKRs & company goals
07:15 - Balancing operational and research work
12:00 - Explain why you say no to people
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2021-03-2213 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#36 Working with data & metrics - with Ben Yoskovitz, Founding partner @Highline BETAWith many years of experience in product management, data, and analytics Ben Yoskovitz joined the Product Bakery to have a conversation about these topics. As a founding partner of Highline BETA a venture studio and venture capital firm, he looks a lot into data and analytics of companies to support business ideas and startups.
In this episode, the product bakers discussed the basics of defining good metrics & KPIs as well as the history and future trends of data-driven work and mindsets.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Ben
03:50 - The rise of data awarene...
2021-03-1844 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#35 Customer journey mapping to get the big pictureThe topic of user story mapping has been discussed many times recently. In this episode, the product bakers focused on the counterpart: customer journey mapping. Alex shares his experience and discussed with Christian when and how you should start working with a customer journey map. As always, Christian also tried to better understand how you can combine customer journey and user story mapping.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro by Christian
01:10 - What is customer journey mapping about?
04:00 - Structuring a journey map
05:45 - When to map out a customers journey
07:20 - Customer journey map v...
2021-03-1415 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#34 In-house product management vs. external consultingThis time Alex came up with "the top of mind topic" of in-house vs. consulting and agency product management. Together with Christian, they've discussed the different focus areas different parties have and what product people need to become for example a good consultant or coach.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Alex
02:25 - Differences between in-house, coaching, and agencies
05:30 - When should I choose and do what?
07:55 - Training and educating people (coaching)
09:10 - Deep-dive into working as agency/project team
12:05 - Interims VP jobs
13:45 - Freelancing with no experience
16:30 - Why Alex moved from con...
2021-03-1119 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#33 Process & design thinking with double diamondIn this episode, Christian and Alex are discussing on top of their minds the topic of "double diamond." They quickly fall into topics of design thinking and process definition and shared some insights and refreshers on how to validate and deliver product ideas.
Table of content:
00:30 - Podcast intro
01:35 - Double diamond and design thinking
04:20 - Setting up a double diamond process
06:05 - Research & delivery aren't linear processes
08:10 - Adjusting the process
09:25 - Iterating, iterating, iterating
10:40 - Don't be too religious about it
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2021-03-0812 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#32 Developing an agile leadership mindset - with Andrea Tomasini, CSO @agile42Empirical process control and understanding people were and are Andrea Tomasini's biggest passions. After starting his career as Engineer and leveling up to VP Engineering, Product, and CTO, he reached the point where he wanted to build his own agile organization.
These days Andrea's agile consultancy agile42 operates in more than 13 countries across the globe, helping companies of all sizes to establish an agile mindset. Even the Product Bakers have been trained and coached by Andrea already.
In this episode, Andrea shares his wide and deep experience and best practices on where to start with a...
2021-03-0452 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#31 Researching customer problems - with Cindy Alvarez, Director Customer Research @GithubAfter studying psychology in the late '90s, Cindy started her product, research, and design career. She has lead many Product, Design, and Research Teams over the last decades. Next to that she wrote and published the book Lean Customer Development.
Cindy speaks in this episode, about how to best do customer research. She shares very practical examples of how to understand customer problems without interviews, and best practices to understand what customers really want and need. One of her key messages is that asking questions is not only important for customers, it also helps inside companies t...
2021-02-2547 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#30 Deep-diving into the Design Ops role - with Pete Fossick Design Director, Coach & TrainerAs a follow-up on the previous discussion about Design Operations, the Product Bakers invited Pete Fossick, who is a seasoned Design Director, Coach, Trainer, and co-founder of the DesignOps Network & conference to diving deeper into the topic. The whole conversation was around the history of design ops, how the role developed and evolved as well as its specific responsibilities.
At the end of the conversation, they've discussed how to accelerate innovation with an operations team as well as how to hire for such positions.
Table of content:
0:30 - Intro Pete Fossick and how g...
2021-02-181h 04Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#29 The evolvement of design communities - with Mindaugas Petrutis Program Director @On DeckFrom working in hospitality to building a Design community is a rare transition that Mindaugas Petruitis made. These days Mindaugas is focused on his design fellowship at On Deck (space between On and Deck) as Program Director for the Designer Fellowship. Endless conversations and networking with Product & Design People across the globe motivated and inspired him to come up with this fellowship.
In this episode, the product bakers and Mindaugas look at the evolvement of design communities as well as the challenges they are facing.
Table of content:
00:30 - Intro Mindaugas Petrutis
05:45 - T...
2021-02-1149 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#28 Understanding customers to find product/market fit - with Jim Semick Founder @ProductPlanJim Semick works for more than 20 years in Product Management. About 8 years ago he was looking for the next big challenge in his life. He quit his full-time job with two kids and no clear business idea. What he had back then was a great and motivated co-founder as well as the vision to make Product Managers' lives easier.
In this episode, Jim talks about the importance of having a clear vision of how to build a company with your co-founder before you even have a business idea. Next to that, Jim shared what he did to i...
2021-02-0434 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#27 Backlog management from a different point of viewThis time Christian and Alex sat together to take a deeper look at backlog management. The goal was to clarify common misunderstandings such as who owns the backlog, who is supposed to create tickets, what ticket types are the "right" ones, etc.
Table of content:
2:25 - Frequently asked backlog questions
3:15 - Leonardo Davinci & backlog management
6:00 - Basics of epics & user stories
12:40 - Who should write tickets?
14:25 - Empowering teams to work on the backlog
19:00 - The role of the definition of ready
20:30 - How to take over an existing backlog
23:10 - Keeping the backlog clean
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2021-02-0126 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#26 Combining business & product mindsets - with Rich Mironov @Product Management Consultant & AuthorRich Mironov works for more than +30 years in Product Management. Based on his experience as an Independent Product Consultant & Coach with more than 150 clients he shares his thoughts and observations of Product Teams in B2B enterprise.
In this episode, he talked to the Product Bakers about how to work as a Product Leader with executives, as well as the topic of negotiating and managing stakeholders and incoming requests.
Table of content:
0:28 - Intro
5:45 - Organisational misalignment
6:45 - Product vs project management
7:45 - Product management becoming the bottleneck
10:15 - Working with a founder CEO
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2021-01-2854 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#25 Clubhouse: Top or flop?In this episode, Alex and Christian discuss the new beta social media clubhouse and its future.
Table of content:
1:53 - The clubhouse trend coming to Germany
3:19 - FOMO
4:51 - MVP Mindset
7:50 - The roadmap & snowball effects
10:05 - Clubhouse the next big social network?
12:15 - The trend of broadcasting
13:50 - What’s the problem statement?
17:50 - Clubhouse downsides & future
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2021-01-2521 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#24 What Product Managers need to succeed in 2021 - with Luca Criscuolo Head of Product @eBayLuca Criscuolo studied initially environmental science and holds a Ph.D. in climate science. Next to all his work and research, he decided at some point to be closer connected to the real world and people building products. From that point on he started working in Product Management and moved his way up to several product leadership roles.
With more than 14 years of Product Management experience, he's currently working at eBay as Head of Regional Product Europe.
In this episode, Luca and the Product Bakers discuss the different dimensions that are important to hire a...
2021-01-211h 03Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#23 Empowering teams to be innovative - with Ryan Sousa CDO @Seattle Children's HospitalRyan Sousa leads data innovation for Research, Hospital, and Foundation at Seattle Children’s. He is a senior leader, entrepreneur, and practitioner and brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in some of the biggest companies such as Amazon, Starbucks, Expedia, and Nokia as well as several successful startups.
Next to all the companies that Ryan has seen, he clearly noticed one key factor that drives success and innovation in companies which is empowering people! Many companies focus too much on deadlines, pressure from investors, and other things, and lose track of the main thing which is pe...
2021-01-141h 03Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#22 Developing a conference & community product - with Rory Madden Founder @UXDX"You learn the most from your mistakes, not your success.", is a quote that Rory Madden would immediately sign! With more than 16 years of experience as a Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Business Analyst he has a lot of experiences to share.
Rory founded two start-ups that failed, and one of the biggest learnings he made was to talk to customers as early as possible. Based on that learning, he founded the UXDC (User Experience & Developer Experience) Conference. The mission of the conference is to help people to learn about customer and data-driven agile methodologies to not make the s...
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Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#21 Wrapping up a remote year with tips for a better working routineA long and exhausting year is over! Alex and Christian sat down together one last time in 2020 to wrap up a year of remote work and sharing some morning routine tips in times of home office to not only be productive but also to take care of your physical and mental health.
The Product Bakers wish you all a happy new year's eve. Stay healthy, stay conscious.
Happy new year! 🎉🥳🎊
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Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#20 🎄Xmas special: Self organizing & planning 2021 as a Product PersonCould it be a better time to launch the 20th episode on Christmas?! 🎄
We want to thank all our listeners for the amazing support we've got, and wish everyone MERRY CHRISTMAS and happy holidays! In this episode, we're doing a little recap on what has happened this year as well as sharing the first outlook for 2021.
Since the year is coming to an end we also talk about how we prioritize & set goals for the next year. This includes a deep-dive into self-organization, tooling, and a couple of book recommendations. #planning
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2020-12-2425 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#19 Accelerating product development with an integrated Design Team - with Shruti Ramiah @N26Shruti is a design researcher and interaction designer. She leads the talented team of The Studio at Zalando in Berlin. At the time of recording this episode, she led the product design & user research team at N26. She has also worked in strategic design consulting with IDEO, user experience at Nokia, and with a few other places.
Shruti’s goal has been to nurture effective collaboration between design, research, product management and engineering to deliver customer-focussed solutions – building the capabilities and processes that enable all disciplines to do their best work.
In this episode, she talk...
2020-12-1754 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#18 Brand & product building don't compete with each other! - with Laura Busche @Author of Lean BrandingBranding plays a key role in every kind of business. Laura Busche's passion for marketing and brand strategy started in 2008. Since then she focused a lot on working and learning everything about brands until 2013 when she published her amazing book "Lean Branding" as part of the Lean Series from O'Reilly.
Laura consulted Alex and Christian for almost one hour about building up the Product Bakery brand and community. She shared how to use a storyboard to define the brand values and target audience.
Table of content:
0:28 - Episode summary
0:59 - Intro Laura Busche & her boo...
2020-12-1053 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#17 Communities as a foundation to kick-starting your product & brand - with Monica Lent @BloggingfordevsMonica Lent is a passionate Software Engineer & Entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience. Next to her first startup affilimate.com, she regularly launches new products, services, and communities such as blogginfordevs.com.
Monica shares in this episode many practical tips and examples on how to build up your own community and the need for companies to move beyond acquiring customers and connecting closer to their audiences.
Table of content:
0:30 - Intro Monica Lent
3:50 - 12 Startups in 12 months
6:25 - How she got started with her first paid community
8:50 - Community vs. customer base
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2020-12-031h 00Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#16 Creating a product strategy in times of uncertaintyBoth Christian and Alex work on many strategic topics as consultants in their day to day business. What they've observed is that many companies need to rethink their current strategies and adapt to the current situation/crisis.
In this episode, Christian talks about how to get started with a product strategy definition based on Alex's business idea about selling Italian premium ties. He focuses on the basic skeleton of information & agenda points a product strategy should consist of as well as how to specify them.
Table of content:
0:30 - Product Vision vs. company v...
2020-11-3023 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#15 The role of UX in the most played computer game League of Legends - with Alex Wheeler @Riot GamesHumans love to play games! So does Alex Wheeler, Senior UX Designer at Riot Game. Alex spent many years developing the UX for champions of the most played online game League of Legends.
Alex shares great insights about the whole process of developing e.g. a new champion or changes on the client-side for more than 120 Million active users. He touched all the parts from the discovery and wireframing to the development and rollout.
Next to that, he shared why friction in UX and games is so important.
Table of content:
0:30 - In...
2020-11-2654 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#14 Defining the right pricing for SaaS products - with Markus Hafellner @BitmovinSaaS products are Markus Hafellner passion. Next to his experience as a Product Manager, he worked many years in the tech industry as a developer & CTO. In his current challenge at Bitmovin, he focuses a lot on defining and developing a good pricing strategy.
Markus shares how the company introduced a big pricing change and the thoughts, planning, and approach behind it as well as great tips how to align with stakeholders and getting the buy-in from the C-Level/Top Management.
Table of content:
0:30 - Intro Markus Haffelner & Bitmovin
4:50 - The challenges of d...
2020-11-1955 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#13 Designing experiences not screensAfter a week-long road trip in Portugal Alex is looking back at all the small invisible experiences he encountered while sitting in the car. It’s things like anticipating and designing for the user's intentions that make an experience really great.
Table of content:
0:30 - Alex road trip in Portugal
2:30 - Air conditioning experience with Volkswagen
4:45 - User experience in cars
6:35 - Understanding & learning from user intentions
10:55 - Jobs to be done
15:55 - UX on purpose or luck?
17:55 - Autonomous driving
22:25 - Ethnographical studies to better understand users
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2020-11-1625 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#12 Building the first product teams in early-stage startups - with Sebastian Sabouné @Founders FactorySebastian's role as head of product at the Founders Factory is quite different from most of the jobs. He and the product coaching team help founders and teams build the right product in the right way using their expertise and product coaching framework.
His and the team's thesis is that by both executing on the product as well as coaching founders on what good best practices look like, Founders Factory won't only build great products but also great teams and businesses.
In this episode, he shares great stories and best practices on what to consider a...
2020-11-1251 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#11 Establishing a product & engineering mindset in a hypergrowth startup - with Urbi @Trade RepublicUrbi realized pretty "fast" that studying business administration isn't the right thing for him. After he moved to computer science he started his career as a QA Engineer and worked his way up. Currently, he works as an Engineering Manager at Trade Republic.
Urbi's mission is to establish a Product and Engineering mindset in the fast-growing Berlin fintech. He shares insights on onboarding processes, the collaboration between product & engineering as well as establishing a culture of open communication.
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0:30 - Intro Andreas Urban aka Urbi
6:15 - Urbi’s mission at Trade Repu...
2020-11-0553 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#10 Building relationships & keeping stakeholders involved - with Emilie Lindström @OutfitteryPeople were always a passion for Emilie Lindström. With a background in HR & recruiting, she moved into Product Management 3,5 years ago and is now building internal tools and processes for Outfittery.
As Product Manager, Emilie spends a big part of her day working with Stakeholders to get them involved and manage their expectations along the journey. In this episode, she shares insightful stories as well as tips for everyone working with challenging stakeholders.
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0:30 - Intro Emilie Lindström
5:55 - What product newbies need to know
9:30 - Getting started with stake...
2020-10-2953 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#9 User research can be fast & easy - with Nikki Anderson @ZalandoWith a master's degree in psychology and many years of experience as a User Researcher, Nikki Anderson moved in 2018 from New York to Berlin. She works currently as User Research Lead at Zalando as well as her own startup the user research academy.
Nikki shares the basics of qualitative user research to be able to get started with it in a fast and effective fashion. Next to that, she talks about when a company should start doing user research and at which point it's worth thinking of hiring a researcher.
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0:30 - Int...
2020-10-2259 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#8 Death through researchAlex and Christian were brainstorming during brunch about "what makes the perfect croissant so delicious." They came to the conclusion, that they could do research to find the answer. But how much research would they need to do, and would they really find the answer? In this episode, Alex talks about defining good questions and hypotheses to be able to do good research. Besides that, he touches on why many companies are hesitant to do research and how to apply it as a way to not lose speed.
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0:30 - Can “taste” be resear...
2020-10-1922 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#7 Designing crypto products for investors & communities - with Liam MurphyLiam Murphy is a crypto enthusiast for more than 8 years as an investor and a Product Designer. He shares insights into how to build crypto products that are "more usable" for crypto investment app consumers.
These days he's focused on working for crypto communities and talks about how the community decides and builds new features & products.
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0:30 - Intro Liam Murphy
3:10 - Basics around crypto & decentralized finance (DeFi)
8:00 - Designing crypto products
13:40 - Changing user behaviors about investing
15:24 - Kicking off crypto projects
19:25 - Emerging crypto trends
22:50 - Designing for the cr...
2020-10-1547 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#6 User Experience in B2B: Building a product in the retail industry for today’s consumers - with Henning Witzel @NewStoreBeing a computer scientist was too boring for Henning. Once he saw Photoshop the first time he fell in love not only with the tool. He quickly started expressing his ideas on the screen and started working as a freelancer until one of his clients got acquired by the entrepreneur Stephan Schambach.
The omnichannel retail platform NewStore was born and he started as a Product Designer. These days Henning is leading the Design Team and everything related to user research, experience, and product planning. He shares deep and detailed insights about projects with NewStore's clients and how th...
2020-10-081h 01Product Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#5 The product vision definition guideWhat's the difference between a product vision and a company vision? Christian talks about the definition of a product vision and the key information it should and shouldn't contain.
He describes the definition process based on examples and best practices. Next to the "theoretical" part, he talks about how to create a product vision based on two workshop methodologies that you can easily apply for your own vision.
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0:30 - Product vision basics
7:05 - The one catchy product vision sentence
7:50 - Benefits of having a product vision
11:30 - Iterating on the pr...
2020-10-0527 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#4 Bootstrapping a startup with user story mapping - Interview with Avion.ioJames & Tim are both founders of Avion.io, a user story mapping tool that helps Product Teams to better collaborate and plan features, products, and services.
When Tim came back from his Product Owner course 5 years ago, learning about user story mapping, he quickly realized together with James that this methodology makes planning much easier and efficient. Unfortunately, they were missing a tool to digitalize and remotely collaborate on a user story map. They sat together after work and started designing and developing Avion.io which they've launched in 2019.
In this episode, they talk about th...
2020-10-0152 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#3 Managing hyper growth with the help of a design systemThis time, Christian interviews Alex Dapunt about his career path and work experience. He initially wanted to become an architect but then landed in the Digital Design Space.
Alex started his career in an Italian agency and then moved to Munich and finally to Berlin where he started working for SumUp where he became the Head of Design. Over 4 years Alex scaled up the Design team from 4 to 40 people before he left the hyper-growth startup.
Besides a lot of hiring and building up a Brand & Product Design Team, he shares the importance of introducing a de...
2020-09-2433 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#2 How to get started with user story mappingIn this episode, Alex interviews co-host Christian Strunk to get some background on how he transitioned into Product Management.
Christian started working as a baker before he studied business administration. While studying he founded his first start-up "Pocketrobe" which opened the doors into the world of Product Management...
Besides his career path, Christian talks about his most favorite product planning methodology "user story mapping" and how to get started with it.
If you're interested, listen in! For more information about story mapping & Product Management check out his blog.
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2020-09-1738 minProduct Bakery – The Product Management, UX & Design Podcast#1 Welcome to the Product BakeryMeet your hosts Christian Strunk and Alex Dapunt as they introduce you to their new Podcast Format 'The Product Bakery Podcast'.
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