Product Practicum Series 1: Intro To Agile

08/22/16 • 4 min

Cindy F. Solomon chats with Amy Lightholder about the value of hands-on immersion into learning Agile and managing products.

Cindy F. Solomon chats with Amy Lightholder about the value of hands-on immersion into learning Agile and managing products.

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TEI 085: Managing product teams – with Todd Dewett, PhD

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode 085 of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to teach them about improving teams and their work. He is Dr. Todd Dewett, a best-selling author, popular trainer on Lynda.com, a TEDx speaker, and an Inc. Top 100 leadership speaker. His latest book is Show Your Ink: Stories About Leadership and Life. He is also a former award-winning professor who has since spoken to and advised hundreds of thousands of professionals around the world. When you listen to the interview you will no doubt hear that he has huge enthusiasm for helping people. In this discussion, product managers can learn: the value of feedback,leading when you have no actual authority,conflict management, andtwo actions for being a better team leader.

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TEI 086: Manufacturing serendipity, open innovation, and product management

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode 086 of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode: You’ve likely heard of the curse of knowledge or sometimes it is called the curse of the expert. It occurs when our knowledge leads us down predictable paths, likely not considering other possible solutions to problems but only those that are familiar to us. This is cognitive bias and is the topic I asked my guest about, which lead to discussing open innovation and how to manufacture serendipity. His name is Kevin Stark and he is the VP of Technology Solutions at NineSigma, a global innovation firm. They have helped Kraft, NFL, NASA, L’Oréal, Unilever, PepsiCo, Pfizer and other companies create an open innovation workplace, leading to breakthrough products. As you will hear towards the end of the interview, many of these companies share their stories using open innovation on the NineSights website – a great resource for learning what they did. The link is below. In this discussion, product managers can learn: how to identify and avoid cognitive bias,how to create an open innovation workplace,problems to anticipate and avoid.