Beyond the Roadmap: Product Talk with AWH

Founded in 2014, Product School is the global leader in product management training with over 20,000 alumni and a community of over 1 million product professionals. In this episode, we interview the Carlos Gonzalez De Villaumbrosia, the Founder and CEO on his story bootstrapping Product School into what it is today. He shares insights on how he developed the opportunity hypothesis, how he incorporated product management into curriculum development, and how he built out the team. We also discuss the evolution of product management as a industry and the trends that are contributing to the growth of the industry as a whole. productschool.com awh.net

As a product manager how do you balance creating a product that is minimally viable and at the same time lovable? In this episode, I chat with Veronica Hudson, Senior Product Manager at ActiveCampaign on striking the balance between MLPs (Minimum Lovable Products) and MVPs (Minimum Viable Products). We discuss the difference in thinking between these two approaches and how to intelligently use both frameworks to create amazing products. Veronica brings over seven years of experience in senior product management at companies like Twilio, SendGrid, and now ActiveCampaign.   activecampaign.com awh.net

In this episode we discuss some the challenges around Product Managers and companies finding the right mutual fit to get the right product person in the right product seat. awh.net

Ryan Seamons discusses the differences and leveragability across these three important areas as part of building great products. awh.net

Maria de Caris, UX Researcher & Designer, discusses how Loop approaches their product processes and evolution. loopreturns.com awh.net

Suprasanna Mishra aka Super, discusses transitioning from being a Founder of a startup to being a Product Manager of a more mature product at Buffer and now an quickly evolving product at Upstart. Super describes some of the challenges and differences associated with these transitions and the various company/product stages and cultures. awh.net

Derrek Seif discusses his experience implementing a product discipline inside of companies with existing products, processes, and culture. awh.net

Piper Lawson, Product Designer from Stack Overflow, joined us to discuss UX considerations as part of the product process. stackoverflow.com awh.net