We’re back and with something exciting! Maisha Lopa, Sr. Platform Product Manager at Spotify joins us to take us through a platform product which she’s led through all the product cycles.  From discovery and opportunity analysis, to the “think it” phase, to building, shipping, tweaking and achieving product/market fit, and eventually scaling up the impact. The blog post for this episode is hosted on Spotify’s engineering blog at...

In this episode we talk about scaling out your learnings with communication, presentations, influencing and story-telling. Then Rob tells us how to use public speaking as a forcing function to level up your communication skills in all areas of the PM job. Blog post for the episode will be released in a week or so, but in the meantime check out our other posts at http://productinternals.com Ask us questions or provide feedback on twitter @productinternal or by email at...

In our first ‘regularly scheduled’ episode after vacations, Arvid takes us into using data as a Product Manager. We’ll get into his mental model for what data is truly needed at different stages of your product or business. Then we’ll think about AB testing, when it is the right tool for insights and when it’s premature. Blog post for the episode will be release in a week or so, but in the meantime check out our other posts at http://productinternals.com Ask us questions or provide feedback...

We’re back from the summer vacation with an episode we recorded in person mid July! In this episode we talk about the things we don’t do, and those hard prioritisation discussions. Saying “No” is an important part of a PM’s job, but does “No” really mean “No” when you’re asked to do something really important? New blog post for this episode will be posted at http://productinternals.com on Monday, check it out! Ask questions or give us feedback @productinternal on twitter or...

This week we answer the question "What tips would you give a new PM after 1 week, 6 months and a year?" We talk about getting into the problem, starting developing strategy, mentoring and getting to know yourself and the role.

We talk about practical day to day work in the life of a PM and how to bring others along to avoid becoming a recurring single point of failure.

We've made grand plans but this time we talk about when your product is on fire and you need to set plans aside. Communicate, put out the fire, and learn as much as you possibly can to never allow that particular thing to happen again - learn from your failures to strengthen your product, your team, and your organisation. New blog post every Wednesday at productinternals.com Give us feedback on twitter @productinternal or at [email protected] !

In today's episode we talk about how to go from problem to solution to execution.  How do you build the best possible thing while pragmatically taking constraints into consideration? Today's lesson: The 'best' solution is the wrong solution if there is no pragmatic way to build it. Understand what the best solution looks like, and make clear what tradeoffs you must make for pragmatism. The reasons behind these tradeoffs are critical for product and engineering to align...

We get into taking your product plans and ideas into execution, and the team and partners that will help you achieve your goals.  This week's lesson: Every impactful team has a Product Manager, although they might not have that title.  Somebody must regularly check in on what matters, validate or invalidate hypothesises, and monitor that impact is achieved. Otherwise direction erodes and the team eventually does the wrong...

Today we discuss future aspirations, and planning the medium and long term for your product.  Then we'll get into the importance of being adaptable. Today's lesson: Things can always change in a way that makes your roadmap obsolete or insignificant.  Especially in our industry! Be adaptable and make the hard decision to abandon what is in progress to pivot to solving the right problem. Read more about this topic...

Hello World!  We're Arvid and Rob, and in this first episode we'll start with a short story of how we got into product and as a first deep dive we'll talk about how to drive product adoption with an internal audience. Today's lesson: Nobody understands the value of your very important platform except you and your team.  If they don’t get it, they won’t use it.  Mandating and escalating only achieves the bare minimum adoption and might miss the impact.  Make them believe and understand....