My name is Juan Rodriguez, I’m a product leader with over 20 years working at tech companies, currently living in Finland, my experience is in building both desktop and cloud solutions focused on B2B, create new products from the ground up, developing product teams, building communities and development paths, creating go-to-market and customer journey strategies.
My education is on electronics and automation and my early jobs were focused on machine vision and to some degree robotics, you can imagine I don’t like manual processes very much and love to automate as much as possible :)
I love to talk about tech companies, creating digital products and businesses around them, from skills to technology and anything in between.
You can visit my website here:
www.insidetheproduct.com/
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Thank you
You're welcome! Hope you enjoyed it
How do you make decisions if you have little amount of data?
it's just not that good.
Chatgpt is a gimmick and can't be trusted. Like asking someone to help with a math problem and them having a group of people standing behind them, giving them hundreds of different answers at once. In short........ Chatgpt has no clue what it's talking about....
Are you planning to move to product leadership roles?
Yes
What role are you in now?
Finally, I found a video for Product development that is plain and simple, easy to understand, not jargonized terminologies.
Thank you so much! I'm very happy that you found it useful
Thanks for the video and I agree that all product professionals should focus leveraging AI to solve real-world problems; it's the correct way for us to think. However, as you alluded to, this is the next big wave in technology, following IOT, crypto, big data etc. This meaning there is huge marketing and sales opportunities when riding this wave, along with showing that your company is progressive and forward thinking. As such, I caution most PMs to NOT instantly push back on creating "AI solutions" which you believe don't solve end user problems. If someone can give you confidence that it will generate revenue and sales opportunities then you should at least consider it against what else you could be delivering. To often I see PMs ignore revenue and just focus on value.
This is so true, focusing on solving users problems and create solutions is a proxy to generate revenue. That said many PMs tend to have an allergy to develop their products only for money reasons. From my experience this usually comes from not knowing the full story and missing the point that possibly this is just another way to solve a problem. In the end PMs need to be critical and analytical to study and find the best opportunities.
Is your product now AI-powered? And how is this better for your users?
Very insightful as always. And it's true that the benefits of AI must be seen in context, but what is also true is that AI as a concept is complex and a lot of people just want to be part of the latest trend so from a marketing perspective I'd milk the hype around AI no doubt.
Thanks for the feedback! Talking about marketing, is there any camping that you believe it's good around AI, other than maybe ChatGPT? And not just saying that product X is AI-powered?
Great video - thank you for sharing
Glad that you found it useful! Thanks for your feedback 😃
Thank you for the very useful information.
Glad that it was helpful! 🙂
Do you have any tips to share with us on how to be a good product director?
What do you think are the main reasons to prioritize poorly? And how would you solve them?
Thank you Juan, it was useful I think we should have a picture of all the levels as a list at the beginning and end of each video, this will help the user to understand and remember it better. best regards
Thank you very much for your feedback Mostafa, I have been thinking about doing that, so I'll start implementing it in the future, so hopefully it helps all of you
coming from the energy industry i belive that this might be a good place to start when looking for innovating and move forward with new strategies before the competition takes them. The energy industry is a zero sum game, so who ever moves faster wins, but that might bring a lot of risk.
So true, those types of industries can be slow movers, but if someone manages to innovate it can make a huge difference, but of course there's the risk of failure. On the other hand not innovating is a risk in itself since others will do.
How often do you talk to your customers?
How do you develop a road map for your features and designs?
You can check out this video about roadmaps kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4J2zdB9qJOXfdo.html
How do you collect data and compute a NPS score?
Something like surveymonkey or Google forms
How do you capture the interview/polling data from users when you want to analyze user metrics & behavior? Would you use a crm for this?
Usually I've used something simple like Confluence or Notion to gather results. And usually used something like surveymonkey to create the surveys, that will give you some data. There are some solutions that will help you with these surveys and analysing the results.
So do you think product sense is a concept we should use? Or are we talking as the same thing as before?
Very well said💯👍🏾 Realistically no, not new…to fulfill a specific need or solve a particular problem for a target market.
Well said ;)
Share with us your experiences when bringing consultants
Great informative video; definitely should have more traction than it has! Damn that youtube algorithm.
I'm really happy that you found it valuable. Your comments, likes or shares help with the algorithm 😉
What are the main reasons why you get consultants in your company?
I’m providing services, but I’m looking for insights on how to convert services and service offerings into products:)
Ah that's always a tough call, how to find the part of a service that can be sold as a product. This depends a lot on your service, and maybe what parts of it are somehow repeated that could be sold as a product, customers wouldn't have a tough time getting to use them and find them valuable.
For me, it’s the day when I see a spark in my customer’s eyes or an aha moment from my stakeholders and /or users queueing up for pre-launch features.
Such great points! Those are exciting moments!
Well, thanks for that… let’s say… description of the product manager honeymoon:)))) It was easy to listen and very informative
Oh yes, things can get interesting in the world of PMs
This video is the one of examples of good and simple explanations. Thanks!
I'm really happy that you found it useful!
Thanks for watching! Share with us your tips to manage a team
I have so much to say about this... "agile fails" when an organization finds the status quo perfectly fine, think Kodak or Nokia."Agile fails" if an organization does not have the right people in sitting in the right place doing the right thing. "Agile fails" if an organization cannot navigate through uncertainty in the market, if it is not able to anticipate and react change, again think Kodak or Nokia. "Agile fails" because agile product development is hard, very hard, again without the right people, sitting in the right place, ... you get the point. But also "agile fails" because of bad luck. There, I should stop ranting.
Agree, sometimes is too easy to fail at Agile
I can't say that I disagree with everything you said, but being a SWE and working for a sucessful organization that develops software in an agile way, I part ways with your argument. First, agile is not something, it is how to do something. It is not something one can buy like consulants and certifications, sure learning and getting help can help getting into that agile mindset, but boy does business gets the original manifesto wrong, and that has created a lot of harm like in the BBC or FBI. Yes, of course trying to achieve working in an agile way fails because of Culture, because in business Culture is everything. I think "agile fails" because of business retries to replicate and scale. A parallel to this "failure", it is a failure at all, is this: The motivition people have to start meditating, seek more awareness, less stress, healthier lifes, when actually Meditation is about recognizing that there is no concept of Self: That which we perceive as "I" is actually Conciousness. That's why "meditation fails". Agile software development is about delivering better sofware faster. As long as organizations do not recognize the nature and purpose of agile product development, they will fail to embrace it.
Thanks for your comment. I agree that Agile is not something but more a set of principles. I've been in organizations that have been very Agile and has been a great experience and others that have been not Agile and you can notice the frustrations and lack of capabilities to deliver properly. And I don't want to blame anyone or anything in particular, since often is a combination of factors. One of the red flags I see with organizations is when they say that we need to be Agile when in practice what they have is luck of focus. Anyways the rant could go for a while.
Your sound technique needs to be improved. That Spanish/Finnish-accent is lovely though.
Thanks for the feedback, definitely need better sound, but to be frank editing is not my strength and doubt it will ever be
If you want to know more about what Agile is for product people go check out this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/hINll9ZvZM_LpLg.html
Imagine the hours spent wasted bc of zoom meetings replacing the in person working environment
Ah yes, remote working can be nice, but if it means constant meetings it will drag down most of the work
If you want to know more about product marketing go check out this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/dmhp2c9xoqWvhZc.html
Do you want to learn about other frameworks that will help you prioritize your work? Check this one out kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHiKrZqfaby5nbA.html
Looking for a jump into product leadership roles? If CPO is a big jump check this video about the role of a Product Director kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKp3zqxmXc-adM4.html
Thank uou very much for this🙏🏽
Thanks! I'm really happy that you find it useful ☺️
Hi
How are you prioritizing so the company, or product, you work for succeeds?
I’m working on a tool to help build a solution to add to my product offerings.
Nice! What is the problem that you are solving?
What are you working on, just react: Tools 🛠️ Products 📦 Solutions💡
Have you ever used any of these frameworks to analyze the stage of a product or technology?
What do you think are the most overlooked skills in product leadership?
What role would you like to be in the near future?
Share with us how do you analyze companies (or products)? And let me know if there's some company (or product) that you would like me to analyze
Thank you!👌🏾 Oh! yes, please Spotify and Apple Music Glassdoor vs LinkedIn. Airbnb or Tesla Netflix and Prime Video. Anyone tho
Thanks! that is a long list 😅 any favorite one out of those?
Right’😄not sure which to be honest, Airbnb will be my fav💯
Thanks!
Thank you too!🙂
Great video 👌✌️
Happy that you found it useful!