Product Thinking

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Product Thinking Podcast, where Melissa Perri interviews industry experts in the product management space. Transcripts available in shownotes. Released as audio and video.

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Episode 268: Rethinking What Done Means in Product Ops thumbnail

Episode 268: Rethinking What Done Means in Product Ops

6 May 2026

Successful product development requires strong organizational systems, cross-functional collaboration from early stages, strategic product marketing, centralized knowledge management, and structured processes to align teams around customer outcomes and data-driven decisions.

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Episode 267: How OKRs Become Outputs Instead of Outcomes

22 Apr 2026

Product thinking emphasizes organizational systems, culture, and leadership over feature-centric approaches, advocating flexible OKR frameworks divided into discovery, build, and outcome categories to prioritize actionable, outcome-focused goals aligned with customer needs and human behavior impact.

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Episode 266: Building for Builders

8 Apr 2026

Focus on addressing concrete customer pain points through meaningful product work, avoiding administrative overhead and "shiny object" syndrome by prioritizing real user needs, providing simple yet powerful developer tools, and fostering collaborative leadership while redefining technologist roles beyond experts.

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Episode 265: How Marketplace Teams Decide What to Build

25 Mar 2026

Product thinking strategies focus on clarity, alignment, and decision-making frameworks through systems, leadership, culture, balancing focus and autonomy, codified principles, inclusive design, overcoming marketplace challenges with flywheel growth, and prioritizing customer-centric innovation over copycat tactics.

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