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

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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

Product Innovation Educators

Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug joined us in episode 518 and is back to share battle-tested strategies that will help you fix problems faster and smarter. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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Customer Recruiting for Continuous Discovery: Get Easy Access to Customers Week Over Week

Product Talk

Overwhelmingly, the #1 response is: access to customers. In Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that the only way to make continuous discovery sustainable is to automate your customer recruiting process. If you hustle each week to find customers to engage with, you simply won’t build a strong habit. This doesn’t surprise me.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

The discussion explores practical applications of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude in product development, including MVP refinement, customer testing, and marketing content creation. Product managers can use AI to help make their tests simpler. This methodology helps teams identify the core value proposition quickly.

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Research Study: Customer Perceptions of the Community Experience

What do consumers expect when it comes to CX? Rather than assume that branded communities meet the expectations of the consumer, we wanted to figure out the “want behind the want” by asking if customer expectations around CX align with community offerings. If customers perceive community as a solution to CX expectations.

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook. But most products fail to do so.

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Executive Report: The Customer Data Too Often Overlooked by the C-Suite

A recent Calabrio research study of more than 1,000 C-Suite executives has revealed leaders are missing a key data stream – voice of the customer data. Download the report to learn how executives can find and use VoC data to make more informed business decisions.

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Knowing What Products Not to Build: A Case Study With NBC Universal

Learn how NBC Universal saved millions by knowing what not to build and created a more cohesive customer experience with Feedback Loop. Knowing what not to build is just as important as what to build when it comes to product development.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. When teams solicit and act on customer feedback, they can cycle through ideas quicker, and find the best ones sooner. Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle.