Product Quest Podcast
The Product Quest Podcast follows Jonathan Edwards, Scott Burleson and Yann Wermuth on their quest to the land of product excellence. Along with their guests, they bring together topics, tools and cutting-edge approaches that help companies develop products that customers will buy and love.
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Today, we welcome Yael Mark.
Yael is a product consultant with Extra Product Brain, where she provides fractional product manager services for software products. Her specialty is in behavioral economics and customer behavior, something that is certainly relevant to product management.
Today, we welcome back Dr. Bart Jaworski.
In addition to being an experienced and full-time product manager, Bart is an author of the book, Next-Gen Product Management, and an entrepreneur as he offers multiple courses for product managers on DrBartPM.com
He’s also a super funny guy with the best memes on LinkedIn.
Today, we welcome Nesrine Changuel. Nesrine is a product management expert, author, and speaker who focuses on the concept of customer “delight.”
She has Phds in both Electrical/Electronics Engineering as well as physics, which is sure to give her an interesting take on product management.
Get the book here: https://nesrine-changuel.com/product-delight-book/
Today we happily welcome back Michele Hansen. Michele is the co-founder of the Software-as-a-Service company Geocodio – a SaaS that provides hassle free geocoding. Prior to being an entrepreneur, Michele was a product manager in financial publishing and a project manager for a web development agency.
Michele is the author of an excellent book on customer interviewing which ...
Our guest today, Steven Weissenburger, is director of strategy and innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They are an inter consultancy that helps their company generate strategies and innovations to navigate complex, novel, and ambiguous situations.
We will be discussing the Estuarine Framework which is 1 of the three major frameworks in the Cynefin ecosystem which we have ...
What really separates top sales performers from the rest? In this episode, sales excellence coach and former 3M leader Ivan Stevanovic breaks down the essential habits that fuel consistent sales success—and they might not be what you expect.
Forget gimmicks and silver-tongued persuasion. Great salespeople win because they prepare like professionals, ask better questions, and...
It’s with great pleasure that we welcome back Robyn Bolton! Robyn, welcome back to the Podcast!
Robyn is the founder and chief navigator at MileZero, a consulting and coaching firm that helps leaders use innovation to confidently and consistently grow business revenue. Robyn is also an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and...
Our guest today Kyle Godbey, is a service designer and transcontextual designer and has worked for over 20 years in the fintech industry, government and retail.
In this episode we talk to Kyle about one of the methods within the Cynefin ecosystem: the sensemaker methodology.
We continue our discussion with software engineer and agile coach William Bartlett.
Last time we spoke, in episode 68, we discussed William's journey from waterfall to agile. We discussed the many potential benefits of taking an agile approach when it is done well, but also the difficulty many teams fa...
Today we want to explore how Jobs-to-be-done thinking is used in Product Design with our guest Chris Belmore. Chris is Director of Product Design at On the Beach – an online travel agent. He was Director of Product Design at the Financial Times, where he and Yann met and has long time agency experience, amongst others at Ostmodern – a digital product agency – as a research and design leader before he mo...
Today we will dive into one of the biggest problems that startups face – and I would expand this to teams in general –: each other! We are joined by Martin Gonzalez one of the authors of the book The Bonfire Moment that we will focus on today. Martin created Google’s Effective Founders program and Josh is a cofounder of the Google for Startups Accelerator. They both have impressive careers, and I will j...
Today, we welcome Jeff Baker. Jeff is president of IGI Group Consulting; standing for Insight for Growth & Innovation. a firm that uses Jobs-to-be-Done and research methods to help firms grow and thrive.
Jeff and I worked together, years ago, when we both worked for Strategyn - which is ground zero for Outcome-Driven Innovation, a proven system for applied JTBD. He’s been a steady contributor to the world of JTBD for quite a f...
In this episde we hand over the mic to Pam Henderson an let her interview us about Jobs-to-be-done.
Pam is an entrepreneur, professor, and founder and CEO of NewEdge, a growth strategy firm that anchors growth in “opportunity” also, she’s the author of a book with an intriguing title, “Killing Ideas: You can kill an idea, you can’t kill an opportunity. .
Today, we’re passing the interviewer role to Pam - while Yann, Jonathan and I...
Today, we have an extra special episode as we welcome two superheroes of Jobs-to-be-done and we plan to get into the weeds.
First, Dr. Lance Bettencourt. Lance is widely published, and all practitioners should know his work, most notably with MIT Sloan Review and Harvard Business Review. All should know his HBR article “The Customer-Centered Innovation Map,” where Lance and Tony Ulwick first described the job map… He also has ext...
Today, we have an extra special episode as we welcome two superheroes of Jobs-to-be-done and we plan to get into the weeds.
First, Dr. Lance Bettencourt. Lance is widely published, and all practitioners should know his work, most notably with MIT Sloan Review and Harvard Business Review. All should know his HBR article “The Customer-Centered Innovation Map,” where Lance and Tony Ulwick first described the job map… He also has ext...
In this episode we continue our exploration of the Cynefin framework and how to apply it to innovation. We have already discussed it in a previous episode (Episode 64 with Tom Kerwin). We now want to look at it from another perspective.
Our guest William Bartlett is in the field building solutions, meaning he has first hand experience with the challenges of turning the output of a disco...
With us today is Steve Portigal. I have been recommending his book “Interviewing Users: How to uncover compelling insights” all the time for anyone interested in interviewing users.
It’s now out in a second edition and with the promo code QUEST you can get 10% off here: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interviewing-users-second-edition/.
Steve...
Today, we welcome Pam Henderson. Pam is an entrepreneur, professor, and founder and CEO of NewEdge, a growth strategy firm that anchors growth in “opportunity.” - in quotes, I say ‘in quotes’ because Pam created a method known as Opportunity Thinking, a creative approach to innovation.
She’s the author of a book with an intriguing title, “Killing Ideas: You can kill an idea, you can’t kill an opportunity. .
Pam: It’s great to spea...
Today we have a guest that if you don’t know him it more than about time that you do. He’s something of a UX rockstar and one of the leading most influential experts in the field: Jared Spool. He is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers and where he’s training the next UX generation. In the decades he’s been in ...
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