Fearless Product Leadership

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the seventh episode, we tackle antipatterns in resource allocation decisions as we answer the question: What can go wrong when allocating resources? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology OfficerBarry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody Studios and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong? Episode transcripts can be found at ⁠⁠⁠Fearless Product Leadership Podcast⁠⁠⁠ Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on ⁠⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠⁠ or at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.fearless-product.com/contact⁠⁠⁠.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the sixth episode, we tackle the people puzzle as we answer the question: How do you decide who goes where when allocating resources? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology OfficerAdrian Howard, Coach, Quietstars and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at ⁠⁠Fearless Product Leadership Podcast⁠⁠ Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ or at ⁠⁠https://www.fearless-product.com/contact⁠⁠.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the fifth episode, Barry O’Reilly and I discuss our rules of thumb to answer the question: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody Studios and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at ⁠Fearless Product Leadership Podcast⁠ Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on ⁠Linkedin⁠ or at ⁠https://www.fearless-product.com/contact⁠.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the fourth episode, we continue to weigh the options for allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore or Invest? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody StudiosTroy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the third episode, we continue to weigh the options for allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Troy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology OfficerAdrian Howard, Coach, Quietstars and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the second episode, we start weighing the options for allocating resources to products at various life stages as we answer the question: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being sunset? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody StudiosAdrian Howard, Coach, QuietstarsTroy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In the first episode, we set the stage for our people and time allocation decisions as we answer the question: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation? In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody StudiosAdrian Howard, Coach, QuietstarsTroy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader trying to allocate people and time across your product portfolio effectively? In this 7-episode miniseries on Resource Allocation, 5 experienced product leaders share our most effective techniques on why and how to make product-related resource allocation decisions. In it, you’ll hear perspectives from: Jonathan Bertfield, Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.Barry O’Reilly, Co-Founder & Chief Incubation Officer, Nobody StudiosAdrian Howard, Coach, QuietstarsTroy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Listen to the other episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Resource Allocation miniseries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Setting the stage: How do you create a foundation for effective resource allocation?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products being Sunset?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Maintain or Sustain? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Weighing the options: How do product leaders allocate resources to products in Explore and Invest? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Making the Tough Choices: How do you develop your initial Resource Allocation plan? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠People Puzzle: How do you decide who goes where?⁠⁠⁠Antipatterns: What can go wrong?⁠ Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you in a review. Looking for product leadership coaching? Contact me on Linkedin or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader seeking to improve the discovery practices of your teams? Do you want to create a culture and leadership team that values discovery-based, customer-centric product roadmaps over executive-only ideas? In this episode of Fearless Product Leadership, Teresa Torres of ProductTalk and I discuss how product leaders can nurture product discovery in their organizations. Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She has taught over 7,000 product people discovery skills through the ProductTalk Academy. She’s the author of the book Continuous Discovery Habits. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

When it comes to problems leaders face, they tend to fall into two main categories: people and process. In this episode, Part 2 in a two-part miniseries, we learn from four deeply experienced product leaders. They reflect on an epiphany that dramatically improved the way they approach the people part of their role. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer, Redbubble, previously Executive GM – Global Services, XeroPolly Howden, Chief Product Officer, RoleshareMarc Abraham, Head of Product – Engagement at ASOSAudrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer at SnapComms and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

As a product leader, what was a defining moment of your career? There are likely a handful of experiences that radically transformed the way you think about your work. In this episode, Part 1 in a two-part miniseries, we learn from five deeply experienced product leaders. They reflect on a learning that dramatically improved the way they approach the process part of their role. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Sean MurphyZabrina HossainAnthony MarterNicole BrolanDave Wascha and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

“Nail it, then scale it” is a common—and catchy—refrain within the product world. But what exactly does it mean to “nail” your product? What happens if you move too fast or too slow when rolling out a new product or feature? In this episode, we learn from six deeply experienced product leaders who understand the delicate nature of timing product releases. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, ZooplaPolly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, RoleshareZabrina Hossain, Product Lead, ShopifyAudrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer, SnapCommsSeth Roe, VP of Consumer Web Products at The Weather Channel, an IBM CompanyBen Newell, VP of Product and Engineering at CBRE and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader hiring new product managers for your team? Hiring the wrong person to your team can negatively impact you, the rest of your team and even the rest of the company. Fortunately, there are hiring techniques that will ensure you get the right person, with the right experience, approach and mindset to accelerate the success of your product teams. In this episode, we hear from Kate Leto, author of the book, Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills, who shares how to level-up your approach to the job description, the interview, the "culture fit" assessment using the Role Canvas to get the right people on your product team. Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Transcript available on fearless-product.com

Are you a product leader whose team struggles to make decisions efficiently? There are a number of underlying reasons why teams move slowly when they need to make product decisions. In this episode, we learn from five deeply experienced product leaders who have developed effective questions and frameworks to accelerate decision-making on their teams. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, ZooplaPolly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, RoleshareZabrina Hossain, Product Lead, ShopifyAnthony Marter, Value Management Lead, Foodstuffs North Island Limited; Product & Delivery Coach, HarmoneyAudrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer, SnapComms and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact. Full transcript of "How Do You Accelerate Product Decision Velocity?"

Are you a product leader who isn't sure how you should be evaluated? Are you trying to define corporate and professional goals for you vs your team or the company? In this episode, we learn from deeply experienced product leaders who’ve held the product leader role at multiple companies how they measure their success as a product leader. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Troy Anderson, Chief Product and Information Officer, ApertureRachel Obstler, VP of Product, PagerdutySeth Roe, VP of Consumer Web Products, The Weather CompanyNate Walkingshaw, former Chief Experience Officer, PluralsightProduct Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful TeamsNicole Brolan, Executive GM – Global Services at Xero, previously Chief Product Officer at SEEK and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE RADICAL ALIGNMENT? (3 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions? In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In the third and final episode Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower, authors of the book “Radical Alignment: How to have Game-Changing Conversations That Will Transform Your Business and Your Life.” react to the practices our product leaders use and share their best advice on how to achieve that much needed state of alignment. Be sure to listen to the other two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

HOW DO YOU ALIGN PEOPLE ON TOUGH DECISIONS? (2 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions? In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In this second episode, Rachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote SystemsNicole Brolan, GM at Xero, former Chief Product Officer at SEEK Lucinda Newcomb, Chief Product Officer at WeightWatchers, former VP of Product at SephoraSeth Roe, VP Consumer Products, The Weather ChannelPrasad Gune, SVP Product Udemy, former SVP of Product at Signifyed, OpenTablewww.fearless-product.com share the specific tactics they use as product leaders to align on key decisions. Be sure to listen to the other two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

WHY MUST YOU ALIGN PEOPLE ON TOUGH DECISIONS? (1 of 3 in Alignment miniseries) Are you a product leader struggling to effectively align your leaders and teams on critical decisions? In this 3-episode miniseries on alignment, 8 experienced product leaders share their best techniques on why and how they align their organizations on critical decisions. In this first episode Nate Walkingshaw, former Chief Experience Officer at PluralsightSean Murphy, VP of Digital Pharmacy at Optum, former VP of Product at TargetTroy Anderson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Aperture Credentialing and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) share why alignment is a key responsibility of a product leader. Be sure to stay tuned for the next two episodes in the Fearless Product Leadership Alignment miniseries: Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you a product leader struggling to effectively collaborate with other customer-facing teams in product discovery? In this episode, 6 experienced product leaders share their best tips and techniques on how they work with sales, support and other customer-facing teams to learn from customers and manage expectations to create success for customers and their companies. Episode transcripts can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, ShopifyMarc Abraham, Head of Product-Engagement at ASOS, former CPO at SettledAudrey Cheng, VP of Product at PushpayBen Newell, VP Product, CBRE, former VP of Product at RewardStyleRachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote SystemsNate Walkingshaw, Chief Experience Officer at Pluralsight and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.

Are you seeking a new product leader role? Or are you a CEO trying to hire a product leader? In this episode, you’ll learn how 6 experienced product leaders interview candidates for product leader roles, what they're looking to learn, and what great answers sound like. Episode transcripts with more resources can be found at Fearless Product Leadership Podcast. Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos: Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, ZooplaZabrina Hossain, Product Lead, ShopifyAnthony Marter, Head of Product, PlexureSwapna Malekar, Product Lead, RBC Royal Bank of CanadaSean Murphy, former VP of Product at Target and VP of Product & Engineering at CustomInkRachel Obstler, VP of Product at PagerDuty, former VP of Product at Keynote Systems and yours truly, Hope Gurion, Fearless Product (www.fearless-product.com) Feedback is a gift! Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Have a question suggestion for a future episode? Contact me on Linkedin, Twitter or at https://www.fearless-product.com/contact.