Mindset – Product Intuition, Prioritisation, and Process with Tristan Kromer
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Rosemary King welcomes Tristan Kromer to Mindset. A lean startup coach and founder of innovation consultancy Kromatic – Tristan also currently serves on the ice cream innovation board at Unilever!
In this episode, Tristan and Rosemary discuss product intuition, the art of prioritisation, managing your HiPPOs, and draw from their own experiences and expertise to answer questions from the Mind the Product community.
Listen out for office dog Molly's bell in the background – she also makes a special guest appearance at the end!
Show Notes
03:42 | How do you structure your prioritisation process, grouping of items, and the actual prioritisation with senior stakeholders?
13:57 | Do have any tips or advice for gaining feedback from our customers?
23:01 | How do you handle competing priorities when different departments or teams are not aligned?
32:20 | Are there any frameworks/tools to help me manage multiple products?
40:42 | What are good examples of teams who have effectively scaled their product organisations with multiple levels of product managers and multiple agile teams?
Resources
Question 1
- Communication & Alignment Workshop
- Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development (blog)
- Mastering the art of Prioritizing by Business Value (blog)
- Janice Fraser: Knitting at the Edge of new (blog)
- Plinkromatic (the stats game Tristan refers to)
Question 2
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Question 4
About Mindset
Mindset is a Mind the Product series featuring expert product thinkers. Speaking with Rosemary King, they give helpful answers to product practice questions collected from our training workshop attendees and the greater Mind the Product community. Discover more episodes!
About the author
Rosemary King
Rosemary is an experienced product manager who has specialized in software development, agile enablement and lean methodologies for the past seven years. She has worked across diverse domains including government, finance, retail and enterprise. After starting her tech career in the New York City start-up scene, she moved into consulting and has spent time with ThoughtWorks and Pivotal Labs London. She has done freelance consulting and training with incubator programs like start-up bootcamp, done UX research on four continents and likes cold water surfing.
