Product Thinking Podcast, where Melissa Perri interviews industry experts in the product management space. Transcripts available in shownotes. Released as audio and video.
Episodes
24 Jun 2026
The 2026 AI in Product survey reveals mixed AI impacts on product operations, with high adoption in engineering/design but limited strategic benefits, emphasizing the need for mature systems, aligned execution, and outcome-focused strategies over tooling.
Open episode3 Jun 2026
Successful product organizations prioritize systems, leadership, and culture over features, embedding experimentation as a core practice through psychological safety, iterative learning, balanced investment in uncertain challenges, and outcome-driven development focused on user feedback and continuous iteration.
Open episode20 May 2026
Systemic product development prioritizes organizational culture, iterative decision-making, and continuous discovery through weekly user engagement and feedback, emphasizing human-driven insights over AI reliance to align solutions with evolving needs while balancing business and customer goals.
Open episode6 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.
Open episode22 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.
Open episode8 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.
Open episode25 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.
Open episode11 Mar 2026
Experts discuss strategies for successful product organization transformations, emphasizing clear vision, systemic changes, and agile practices to drive digital innovation and customer-centric growth.
Open episode25 Feb 2026
Leaders transitioning to CEO roles can follow three distinct career paths, requiring skills in communication, trust-building, and vision-setting, to achieve success.
Open episode11 Feb 2026
Product thinking prioritizes outcomes over solutions, fostering a culture of rapid learning and alignment with long-term vision through data-driven strategies and customer-centric team structures.
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