Aakash Gupta writes the Product Growth newsletter for over 140,000 subscribers and hosts the Product Growth podcast, where he helps product managers, product leaders and aspiring product managers. In today's episode: Aakash's journey to newsletter success The 7 steps to follow to become an AI Product Manager Aakash's tips on growing your network an…

Phil Hornby is a passionate product leadership coach. Helping product leaders to think clearly, make strong decisions, and take powerful action that drives high-impact outcomes. In today's episode: The 'how' and 'who' of product decision making Key principles in product decision making — Phils's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/…

Amy Mitchell is Principal Product Manager at Dell Technologies and author of Product Management IRL newsletter on substack. In today's episode: The seven superpowers of great product managers (that they don't say on job descriptions) Tactics to grow these superpowers — Amy's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amycmitchell • Subst…

Christoph Steinlehner is a Product Management coach who helps product managers and leaders that are feeling stuck in their work caught and struggling to facilitate between different perspectives in a business. In today's episode: The challenges of effective business-product communication How visual mapping can help improve communication The MAPPER …

Mo Hallaba is CEO of datawisp.io, an AI-based analytics tool to help non-technical teams understand their product and users better. He was previously working in financial services and the e-sports industry. In today's episode: The challenges of data-informed decision making How AI can help solve some of these challenges The limitations of AI — Mo a…

Jonny Kaldor is CEO and Founder of Pugpig, a web and app developer for publishers. He was previously CTO at News UK. In today's episode: • A brief history of digital publishing • The current state of the digital publishing market • Successful tactics and tech that publishers should employ — Jonny's and PugPig's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www…

Henry Latham is Founder of Break Free. He is a 2x bootstrapper and has coached over 280+ people through his Prod MBA. In today's episode: • Henry's product journey • A deep dive into his manifesto for senior product people tired of the corporate grind. • How to launch a micro-business — Henry's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/…

Varun Ghatge is Head of Product at the BBC, with a focus on cross-product personalisation and recommendation for all BBC brands. In today's episode: • Varun's journey into Product • Key elements of building personalised product experiences • The challenges in implementing recommendation features — Varun's contact info: • LinkedIn: https://www.linke…

Dan Olsen is the author of the Amazon Bestseller 'The Lean Product Playbook', and host of the Lean Product Meetup. He is also a Product Management Trainer and Speaker, helping executives build great products and strong product teams In today's episode: • Dan's journey into Product • A step-by-step guide to find Product Market Fit • What new tools a…

Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is Founder and CEO of Product School, and an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building global companies and digital products. He founded Product School in 2014, which is the global leader in product training with a community of over two million members. All of its instructors are real-world Product Lead…

Itamar Gilad is author of Evidence-Guided, which outlines a new product development meta framework called GIST. Itamar is also a speaker and a coach, previously working at Microsoft and Google. During his time at the latter, he came up with the idea for the tabbed inbox, which is now a core feature of the email product. In today's episode: • The ri…

Krish Ramineni is Co-Founder of Fireflies.ai, which helps teams transcribe, summarize, search and analyze voice conversations. He previously worked at Microsoft and has been featured within Forbes 30 Under 30. He is also passionate about Product-Led Growth. In today's episode: • Fundamentals of Product-Led Growth (PLG) • How Fireflies.ai scaled wit…

Bijan Shahrokhi is Creator of PM Exercises and Product Monkey AI. He is a product management executive with 10+ years of experience in building disruptive technologies. He was previously Head of Product at O(1)Labs, working on Mina Protocol, the world’s lightest blockchain, an L1 project. In today's episode: • The key pillars of productivity • How …

Jonathan Courtois is a Senior Principal Engineer at Sky (UK), leading the development in C++/Qt of the immersive UI experience of Entertainment OS, the operating system powering Sky Glass and Sky Stream. In today's episode: • What makes a great Product and Engineering relationship through the lens of a Senior Principal Engineer • How Sky how approa…

Rafal Maciag is Founder and CEO of ModelingEvolution, which helps businesses and organisations implement effective, high-quality software solutions. The company's Modellution product provides a collaboration platform for Event Storming and Event Modeling. In today's episode: • The foundational concept of Event Storming and how it serves as a cataly…

Gabrielle Hayes is a Product and Agile Coach. She is co-founder and instructor at Product x Agile, which brings expertise to product teams in the form of human-centred, on-demand, self-paced courses. She is also passionate about all things Product Discovery, which is the main topic of today’s episode. In today's episode: • The fundamentals of succe…

Alina Verbenchuk is Senior Product Manager @ HypeAuditor and was previously Product Manager @ Creator Tools at YouTube and Program Lead at Google. She is also Founder of Verbetcetera, which looks to help empower tech careers through mentorship and consulting for people from various backgrounds. In today's episode: • Exploring how technical skills e…

Gisela Rossi is a technology leader, public speaker and mentor, and currently working as Engineering Manager at HSBC. She was previously Engineering Manager at Pollen, WISE YP Board Member and a Software Engineer at Facebook, among other roles. In today's episode: • What a great Engineering Management and Product Management relationship looks like …

Chris Clinton is co-founder of Naq Cyber, and was previously a Cyber Security Consultant and Engineer, working with NATO and a number of defence organisations. In today's episode: • What is cyber security and how to protect your business • Fundamentals in preventing cyber attacks • How Naq Cyber went from idea to product market fit — Chris's contac…

Michael Migliore is a Lifetime Value (LTV) expert and was Head of Customer Value at News UK, CMO of The Modular Analytics Company (TMAC) and has worked with a number of other organisations on their LTV and growth strategies. In today's episode: • How Marketing and Product teams can work better together • Fundamentals of an LTV strategy in B2B produ…

Tom Merryfield is the Founder of Thoughtful Marketing, helping organisations with their SEO, Google Ads and website improvement requirements. Prior to founding Thoughtful Marketing, he was Senior Marketing Manager at Pure World Energy, Marketing Manager (EMEA & APAC) at Precor and Product Manager at Koch Media. In today’s episode: • How SEO strateg…

Welcome to the The Product Development Podcast, giving you the full story on what makes a great product, with 1-1 conversations from leading Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering and Leadership professionals. (0:00) Introduction to the Podcast (0:31) Topics Follow the podcast on Twitter: @proddevpodcast Get in touch with the host, Adam Wakeling, o…