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

• Four Ways to Make NPS a More Actionable Metric (blog)

Question 3 

• How to fix Your Product Goals for Better Human Outcomes (blog)

Question 4

• Product Management Foundations Workshop

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!