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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. While corporate environments often expect perfect planning and immediate success, true innovation requires multiple cycles of creation, testing, and refinement. hours every day dealing with problems.

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping. This planning phase requires careful consideration of multiple contextual factors that significantly impact how roadmaps should be developed and managed.

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

The AI tool supports this process by: Providing prompting questions to spark discussion Suggesting potential angles teams might have missed Organizing ideas into structured formats Documenting key insights for later reference During the workshop, my team worked on the question, How do I use the space I have in my yard to create a garden?

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

The tool reflects Atif’s experience leading organizations through strategic decisions, incorporating features that support building and running explorations, gathering team input, and producing strategy documents. Plan Your Exploration List key questions Design useful tests Set clear deadlines 3.

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Product in Practice: How Passion.io Applies Continuous Discovery to the Employee Experience

Product Talk

It emphasizes the importance of understanding users and building, testing, and iterating quickly. These are some of the questions on the quiz that Eva and her CEO created to test employees’ understanding of Continuous Discovery Habits. Introducing Continuous Discovery Habits to Passion.io Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

I ran into documentation that was incorrect. Do they pair program with their customers to understand where there are gaps in their documentation or their endpoint coverage? Do they usability test their API? So I started by searching for a Teachable API and found some documentation. Error codes were incomprehensible.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. Test if the story makes sense. 90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time. Show it to your team.