Product Warrior Launches First Podcast, Thinking Big and Small With John Cutler
Product Warrior launches a weekly podcast, supported by Mind The Product, dedicated to supporting product managers in their decision making.
The first episode, titled “Thinking big and small”, is out now, featuring guest John Cutler and host Dave Martin, chief product officer at Tes Global. John, a senior product manager and "all-round product junkie", discusses continuous improvement and explores what improvement means to product managers. If a product stops improving is it actually going backwards? Can thin releases deliver actual customer value? How do you use a belief map?
You can also listen to this on iTunes.
- John discusses his experience where properly understanding the users’ problem allowed for small releases to deliver big value.
- We discuss embracing user empathy, willingness to take risks, experimentation to empower teams, and learning to deliver features that help people achieve their goals.
- John reminds us that value is only created when the product is in the customer’s hands. Coupling value and learning creation is a cyclical journey reliant on assumptions.
- The belief map aligns teams and organisations around assumptions, sharing areas where confidence has gone up or down.
The Product Warrior Podcast comes out every Thursday. The next episode dissects the product manager role with guest Janna Bastow, co-founder of ProdPad and Mind The Product.
About the authors
Dave Martin
Dave is the founder of RightToLeft and the creator of the Product VCP. He is on a mission to help people become outcome leaders and support them to lead world-class product management teams. He is trusted by leaders from scale-ups and large companies such as Adobe, GitLab, Synk, Evotix, MentionMe, Contentful, BT, Rotageek and many more. In CPO roles he has supported multiple successful company exits, working with VC-backed and PE-backed companies.
Julie Celia
Julie is a producer and digital experience design lead at Wells Fargo based in San Francisco. She unites leadership and communications skills that help teams run smoothly with a deep love for creating user-centric products that improve organizations' relationships with their customers. Before joining Wells Fargo, Julie led marketing efforts at a design agency and a handful of nonprofits.
