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One Knight in ProductJordan Dalladay's Hot Take - We Should Build Roadmaps Of Risks, Not Features (with Jordan Dalladay, Product Consultant @ inherent ventures)Jordan Dalladay is a product strategist and leader who works with startup founders to help them turn ambitious ideas into market successes. He specializes in "dragging a vision kicking and screaming into reality" with his consultancy, inherent ventures.
His hot take? We should invert our approach to product roadmapping. Instead of listing features to build, create a "risk-based product strategy" that outlines all the assumptions and potential pitfalls that could prevent success. This approach helps teams prioritize learning and experimentation, validating their riskiest assumptions first and dragging their vision into reality more effectively.
Find Jordan...
2024-10-0615 min
Concept to CareBen Foster, Co-founder of Prodify and Former CPO of WhoopBen Foster, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Prodify and Co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. Prodify is a product advisory firm that help early-stage companies find product-market(-pricing) fit, or growth-stage companies scale their product team and processes efficiently, or established companies maintain a comfortable lead through vision-led product management principles.
Ben is also the Former Chief Product Officer of WHOOP. A health tech wearable company that has raised over $400M to date and has a post money valuation of $3.6B. WHOOP is a fitness and health technology company known for...
2024-03-061h 22
Product Market FitEp22 Mashup: What is product market fit? How to gather feedback from customers? And launching on Product Hunt — Product Market Fit podcastSince I'm off celebrating Passover, instead of releasing a new interview today, I present to you a mashup of key insights from past episodes on several recurring topics, including:
Product market fit — what it is, how it's measured, and how you know if you have it.
Talking to customers and collecting user feedback.
How launching on Product Hunt has gone for several of the startups featured so far on the podcast.
If you're new to the pod, hopefully, this is a good entry point and encourages you to go back and listen to these fantastic interviews. But ev...
2023-04-1244 min
Product Market FitEp6: Product Market Fit 101; w/ Rajesh Nerlikar, co-founder Prodify — Product Market Fit podcastRajesh has worked with 50+ product teams and wrote the book Build What Matters — he knows a thing or two about building great products. In this episode, Rajesh covers:
- Why pricing is such a critical component of product-market fit (and signals you may be missing the mark on PMF)
- The Kano model for product development
- How to gain insights from speaking with customers and prospects
- What is vision-led product management?
- Hiring product managers and product leaders, and org designs for growth; and more.
I loved this interview and I...
2023-01-0447 min
The Pair ProgramThe Keys to Scaling a Product Team from Seed to Series A (and beyond) | The Pair Program Ep09Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Anne Neilsen and Rajesh Nerlikar. Anne is the Executive Director of Product Management at cybersecurity startup JupiterOne. Throughout her career, she has developed a specialty in the security space working in both product strategy and marketing at various companies (including Veracode, IANS, and Rapid7). Rajesh is a Co-Founder and Principal Product Advisor at Prodify and co-author of the bestselling product book, Build What Matters. Over the past 4 years, he’s advised and coached nearly 40 companies on product strategy and team development, from startup founders to growth stage pr...
2022-05-3151 min
Product StoriesEffective techniques to prioritize your product roadmap with Rajesh Nerlikar from Prodify GroupVideo Summary In this episode of Product Stories, Victor Purolnik talks to Rajesh Nerlikar, Co-Founder of Prodify, which helps SaaS startup founders, entrepreneurs, recruiters, executives, and product team leads become more product-driven by offering advising, coaching, hiring, and product management services. Episode Highlights/Topics: What made Rajesh go into product? Interest in customer problem space and […]
2022-03-0943 minProduct StoriesEffective techniques to prioritize your product roadmap with Rajesh Nerlikar from Prodify GroupSummary In this episode of Product Stories, Victor Purolnik talks to Rajesh Nerlikar, Co-Founder of Prodify, which helps SaaS startup founders, entrepreneurs, recruiters, executives, and product team leads become more product-driven by offering advising, coaching, hiring, and product management services. Episode Highlights/Topics: What made Rajesh go into product? Interest in customer problem space and UX […]
2022-03-0943 minProduct StoriesEffective techniques to prioritize your product roadmap with Rajesh Nerlikar from Prodify GroupSummary In this episode of Product Stories, Victor Purolnik talks to Rajesh Nerlikar, Co-Founder of Prodify, which helps SaaS startup founders, entrepreneurs, recruiters, executives, and product team leads become more product-driven by offering advising, coaching, hiring, and product management services. Episode Highlights/Topics: What made Rajesh go into product? Interest in customer problem space and UX […]
2022-03-0943 min
Awkward Silences#74 - Building a Product Vision with Rajesh Nerlikar of ProdifyRajesh Nerlikar works with companies to help them build great products. As the CEO of Prodify, he and his team advise startups on how to build impactful, vision-led products that get customers excited. In his experience, the best way to get teams on the same page is with a compelling product vision that’s easy to understand.In this episode, Rajesh joins Erin and JH to chat about why great product visions are like comic strips, the hard work of actually putting those visions into action, and how to get stakeholders on board with it all....
2021-08-2440 min
Product Book Club"Build What Matters" book review/ discussion with author Rajesh Nerlikar and Product Managers - Jun 2021This month we discussed the book "Build What Matters" together with the author Rajesh Nerlikar and other Product Managers.
We covered topics around product vision, defining outcomes and application of all the different tools and frameworks presented in the book.
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2021-06-2658 min
One Knight in ProductBuild What Matters with Vision-Led Product Management (with Rajesh Nerlikar, CEO @ Prodify & author "Build What Matters")An interview with Rajesh Nerlikar. Rajesh has had a long career in a variety of product companies, and put all of his learnings to practice when he took over Prodify, a product consultancy that helps startups, scale ups and growth companies to embed product thinking and team building. He's also the co-author of the 2020 book "Build What Matters" which aims to help people come together a long term product strategy to 10x customer outcomes.
We talk about a lot, including:
The problems with getting companies to understand product management and the different ways companies try to...
2021-06-1538 min
Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring ConversationsYou Can’t Iterate Your Way to Game-Changing InnovationRajesh Nerlikar is chief product advisor at Prodify and the co-author of the book “Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management” with Ben Foster. Nerlikar highlights a few of the ten dysfunctions that the co-authors had seen in their experience advising product management teams. The book focuses on the four core tenets of vision-led product management that strikes a balance between “iterate your way to success” and “game-changing innovation.” Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Alalia Lundy hosts. Resources • “Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management” by Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster • Virtu...
2021-01-2522 min
The Engineering Entrepreneur PodcastBuild What Matters - Rajesh Nerlikar – Ep 93 Build What Matters - Rajesh Nerlikar – Ep 93
Rajesh is a product advisor and coach. Having worked with 25 companies in the past 3 years and recently released a book called “Build What Matters” to share best practices from that experience. Prior to that, he was an engineer turned MBA and worked in product management at a few startups and a larger enterprise company.
We discussed how important it is to know what the customer wants (hence the title, build what matters). There are many ways to find out what your customers want, like interviews and getting a waitlist for a n...
2020-12-0132 min
The Product Un(censored) Show with Colin PalEpisode #19 - Rajesh Nerlikar (Build What Matters)In Episode #19, Rajesh Nerlikar, Co-Author of the book "Build What Matters" and Chief Product Advisor at Prodify, tells me his journey from product management to product leadership to product coaching, why write a book, vision led product management, and why "Glorious" by Macklemore featuring Skylar Grey is his song of choice.
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2020-11-031h 19
The Product Science PodcastThe Rajesh Nerlikar Hypothesis: Vision-Led Product Teams Are Focused on Customer OutcomesRajesh Nerlikar has more than 15 years of product management experience. Prior to becoming Chief Product Advisor at Prodify, he was a consultant at Accenture, an entrepreneur, a product manager at 2 DC startups that exited, and a director of product at Morningstar. He is also currently serving as Vice President of Product at Savonix, a Prodify client.
In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we talk about how to maintain focus on a vision of how you deliver long-term value to customers.
Read the show notes to learn more.
2020-11-0345 min
Rocketship.fmThe 10 Dysfunctions of Product ManagementRapid iteration, A/B testing, and growth hacking—these buzzwords have everyone’s attention in product management today. But while they dominate the current discussion, something even more significant has been lost in their limelight: long-term value creation for the customer.Product advisors Rajesh Nerlikar and Ben Foster believe that consistently delivering meaningful outcomes requires a deep understanding of your customer’s definition of success. Combine a bold customer-centric vision with a practical execution strategy, and you have a recipe that reveals product development priorities and the pathway to innovation.Purchase a copy of Build What M...
2020-10-2233 min
The Why And The What – Product Management PodcastVision-Led Product Management – Co-Founder, Rajesh NerlikarCo-Founder and Chief Product Advisor at Prodify, Rajesh Nerlikar, discusses Vision-Led Product Management, an approach to thinking about product management by Prodify.Prodify BlogMind the ProductProducts That Count
2020-07-2848 min
People of Product15: Vision-Led Product Management Frameworks for Product Teams (Ft. Rajesh Nerlikar)Are you looking at the holistic nature of your product & asking yourself why a user decided to try your product in the first place? Are you prepared for the ‘Switching Chapter’ when a user begins to struggle with your product?Connect with Rajesh: https://www.prodify.group/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshnerlikar/ Option 5 is brought to you by CremaCrema is a digital product agency that works with partners from top innovative brands to funded startups. Our team of creative thinkers and doers simplify the complex to discov...
2019-10-2139 min
People of Product15: Vision-Led Product Management Frameworks for Product Teams (Ft. Rajesh Nerlikar)Are you looking at the holistic nature of your product & asking yourself why a user decided to try your product in the first place? Are you prepared for the ‘Switching Chapter’ when a user begins to struggle with your product?Connect with Rajesh: https://www.prodify.group/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshnerlikar/ Option 5 is brought to you by CremaCrema is a digital product agency that works with partners from top innovative brands to funded startups. Our team of creative thinkers and doers simplify the complex to discov...
2019-10-2139 min