Product Growth Leaders | Product Conversations with Grant Hunter

Healthy Product Management

This topic of the week episode is on Health Product Management. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Calvin Marshall, Charles Topping, and Joy McCaffrey.

 

Monday Question: What does healthy product management look like?​

Poll Question: What is the barrier to healthy product management that is the HARDEST to find (or create)? 
Friday Question 1: As a product leader, what would your approach be to attain healthy product management?​

Friday Question 2: Are you ever done (attaining healthy product management)?

Lightning Round: Why is striving for healthy product management important?​

If you want to add your thoughts to this topic: Check out the answers to the Monday question in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader... and add your thoughts. Check out and vote in the poll in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader...

Product Management and Burn Out

This topic of the week episode is on Burnt Out Product Management Teams. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, Jason Weber, Jason Vinceletter, DJ Dailey, Faith Peterson, Richard Samela, Tracy Hollister, Calvin Marshall, and Eva Beasley.

 

Monday Question: What are the key factors that lead product managers to become burnt out and overwhelmed?

Poll Question: What is the most addressable cause of stress and burnout for product managers?

Friday Question: What are the signs product leaders can look for to see if their product management team may be burning/burnt out?

 

If you want to add your thoughts to this topic: Check out the answers to the Monday question in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader... and add your thoughts. Check out and vote in the poll in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader...

Product Management in the Real World

This topic of the week episode is on Product Management in the Real World. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, and Eva Beasley.

 

Monday Question: What is your favorite example of seeing product management in the real world?
Poll Question: What causes you to think most about product management in products in the real world?

First Question: Where is good/bad product management most obvious in a product?

Second Question: If you could take over product management for a product you use, what would the product be, and what would you do?

Lightning Round: How can we use examples of product management in the real world to help people understand the value of product management?

 

If you want to add your thoughts to this topic: Check out the answers to the Monday question in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader... and add your thoughts. Check out and vote in the poll in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader...

 

Senior Leadership Support for Product Management

This topic of the week episode is on Senior Leadership Support for Product Management. In this episode, Grant and Steve are joined by May Wong, Cory Bryan, Joy McCaffrey, Eva Beasley, Karen Bell-Dewitt, and Zach Harris.

 

First Question: If you were talking to your senior leadership team on the value of product management, what would be the most important thing to include?

Second Question: What is the biggest barrier to Senior Leadership understanding the value of product management?

Third Question: What is the biggest barrier to Senior Leadership understanding the value of product management?

Lightning Round: What is possible when product management has the support of senior leadership?

 

If you want to add your thoughts to this topic: Check out the answers to the Monday question in the community at If you want to add your thoughts to this topic: Check out the answers to the Monday question in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader... and add your thoughts. Check out and vote in the poll in the community at https://community.productgrowthleader...

Agile Product Management

This week, Steve Johnson and I were joined by regular panelists Jason Vincelette and  Joy McCaffrey, and first-time panelist Stephen Feldman. 

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "Is there such a thing as agile product management?" 

Listen to our conversation on the poll question "How agile is product management in your organization?"

Get our take on the following questions:

Are agile product management and product management for an agile development team the same or different?

Has the term agile been spoiled by agile product development?

And get our Lightning Round answers to "What word or phrase describes the value of agility in product management?"

 

 

Brand and Product

This week, Steve Johnson and I were joined by a great panel including Jason Vincelette,  Paul Hurwitz, Calvin Marshall , Brian Weber, Glenn Pride, and May Wong.

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question "Where and how do product and brand overlap?" 

Listen to our conversation on the poll question "Can product and brands be successful on their own?" Where "It Depends was the clear winner"

Get our take on the following question:

"How should product management think about brand?" Where Brian offers that it should be the guiding principle.

"What is the biggest misunderstanding product people have about brand?" Where May offers that the biggest misunderstanding is that brand is just marketing.

And get our Lightning Round answers to "What is the best way for product management to impact brand?"

The Whole Product

This week Steve Johnson and I are joined by one of our largest panels ever with Jason Vincelette, Calvin Marshall, Paul Hurwitz, May Wong, Brian Weber, Glenn Pride, and enjoying the conversation Tracy Hollister.

Hear us discuss Monday's question "How do you manage the whole product?"

See the results and our thoughts on Wednesday's poll question "What is the hardest part of managing a whole product?" where Managing internal parts of the whole product was the winner.

Get our takes on this week's question, "What is possible when you manage the whole product?"

And listen to the answers of the Lightning Round question, "What advice would you give to a product manager who wants to manage the whole product?"

Product Management and OKRs

2022 Product Management Resolutions

Product Management and Mental Health

The questions we covered are:

How do you manage the stress of product management?

Poll: What is the leading product management cause of stress and anxiety?

As product leaders, what should we be doing to help reduce the levels of stress and anxiety in our product managers?

And the lightning round: What would you warn someone new to product about the mental health impacts of being a product manager?