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Johannes Thönes talks to Barry O’Reilly, Founder and CEO at ExecCamp, about his book Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate At Scale. 

A lean enterprise is a large organization that manages to keep innovating while keeping its existing products in the market. O’Reilly talks about the idea of scientific experiments and the build-measure-learn loop popularized by the lean-startup method. 

He shares his experiment of an online wine seller using Twitter. He further discusses the challenges for enterprises trying to do something similar and introduce the three-horizon model, to manage innovative, growing, and new products. As an example of a successful lean enterprise, O’Reilly talks about GOV.UK, the British government’s new website.

Software Engineering Radio: Lean Enterprise Interview with Barry O'Reilly

Christine Fok, Product Manager with LinkedIn,  shares what a role in Product Management is all about. In this episode, we will touch upon:

1. What is Product Management
2. What a Product Manager does through the Product Lifecycle
3. What makes Product Management a highly competitive role in Silicon Valley
4. What the best Product Managers do
5. Interesting and challenging aspects of the job
6. What to expect in Product Management interviews
7. How to prepare for interviews
8. Useful resources for interested candidates

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Ep 7: Product Management with Christine Fok, LinkedIn

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Melissa Perri, a UX and Product Management expert and founder of Produx Labs.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - Put value first – it’s not about building more stuff but making sure we build the right thing for the right people
 - Product ownership is about optimising value for the organisation
 - Managers need to understand their role in product management
 - Identify outcomes and define pirate metrics for success
 - Empower teams to achieve the outcomes, not deliver features

Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/melissa-perri

3m:45s Management should communicate the metrics and goals to the product owner and let them work with the delivery team(s) to figure out how to achieve them

4m:20s Product owners told to make decisions but not actually empowered to do so

4m:35s Focus on training the managers on what they need to do to effectively support product ownership and how to communicate clear boundaries and goals

5m:20s A product strategy is not a plan

5m:55s Common approach is for managers to define the features and roadmap instead of identifying and communicating the goals, and trust the teams to figure out the best way to achieve the goals

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Melissa Perri on what's needed for Effective Product Management

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations manager, ground data system manager, and resource prospector for the Lunar Rover Mission at NASA. We talk about applying Agile, adopting design thinking and user-centered design, and what he and his team rely on to design and build software for mission control.

Jay Trimble on User-Centered Design, Agile, and Design Thinking at NASA

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Ben Yoskovitz, investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product at VarageSale and at GoInstant. We talk about using metrics in product development and why anyone building anything new needs to have both hubris and intellectual honesty. Yoskovitz is co-author of Lean Analytics, and is teaching a two-day course on product strategy as part of the upcoming O'Reilly Design Conference.

Ben Yoskovitz on Lean Product Development Using Metrics to Build Successful Products and Companies

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Anima Anandkumar, a leading machine learning researcher, and currently a principal research scientist at Amazon. I took the opportunity to get an update on the latest developments on the use of tensors in machine learning. Most of our conversation centered around MXNet—an open source, efficient, scalable deep learning framework. I’ve been a fan of MXNet dating back to when it was a research project out of CMU and UW, and I wanted to hear Anandkumar’s perspective on its recent progress as a framework for enterprises and practicing data scientists.

Deep Learning That's Easy to Implement and Easy to Scale

In this episode of the O’Reilly podcast, Jon Bruner sat down with Rahul Kamdar, director of product management and strategy at TIBCO Software. They discussed the shift from the centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) to a distributed data architecture based on microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.

From Enterprise Service Bus to Microservices

This week, I sit down with Matt LeMay, product coach and consultant, and author of "Product Management in Practice." We talk about the four guiding principles of product management, what he has learned about himself as a product manager, and how to conduct meaningful research.

Matt LeMay on the Four Principles of Product Management

This week, I sit down with Travis Lowdermilk senior UX designer at Microsoft, and Jessica Rich, UX researcher at Microsoft; Lowdermilk and Rich are also co-authors of the "Customer Driven Playbook." We talk about why failing fast is not always a good approach, sensemaking, and never losing track of the customer’s voice.

Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich on Building a Customer-Driven Culture at Microsoft

This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keynoting at Velocity in New York, October 1-4, 2017. We talk about moving from working in design to leading designers, the real and sometimes negative impact that design decisions can have on users, and how design is organized at Shopify.

Cynthia Savard Saucier on Design at Shopify

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Platz, senior designer at Microsoft for the Azure Portal and Marketplaces. We talk about the challenges of working on a top-secret design project, the research behind Amazon's Echo Look, the skills you need to start designing for voice, and how studying improv can make you a better designer.

Cheryl Platz on Designing the Amazon Echo Look

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with John Whalen, chief experience officer at 10 Pearls, a digital development company focused on mobile and web apps, enterprise solutions, cyber security, big data, IoT,  and cloud and dev ops. We talk about the “six minds” that underlie each human experience, why it’s important for designers to understand brain science, and what people really look for in a voice assistant.

John Whalen on Using Brain Science in Design

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk serverless architecture with Mike Roberts, engineering leader and co-founder of Symphonia, a serverless and cloud architecture consultancy. Roberts will give two presentations—Serverless Architectures: What, Why, Why Not, and Where Next? and Designing Serverless AWS Applications—at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, October 16-19, 2017, in London.

Mike Roberts on Serverless Architectures

In April 2017, the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative brought together over 300 people at the Digital Transformation Summit to examine the greatest challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s technology. The Summit featured eight provocative panels helmed by pioneers from both academia and practice. This talk features Professor Tom Eisenmann from HBS moderating a panel on product development and management with Maggie Crowley, BevSpot, Marco Morales, EdX and Brandon Sullivan, Lola. To learn more, check out https://digital.hbs.edu/

What Does the Future of Product Management Look Like?  | 2017 Digital Transformation Summit Panel

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rapid experimentation mindset, the design thinking process, and how to get started with rapid experimentation at your company. Hint: start small.

Julie Stanford on Vetting Designs Through Rapid Experimentation

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Ken Kousen, an author, instructor, and consultant who is presenting the live online training courses Functional Programming in Java 8 and Getting Started with Spring Boot in September and October. He is also the author of the newly published O’Reilly book Modern Java Recipes: Simple Solutions to Difficult Problems in Java 8 and 9.

Ken Kousen on Java, Spring, and Groovy

You're probably heard about the benefits that startups are getting from a lean methodology. Replacing long product development cycles with quick, iterative feedback to build better businesses more quickly and cost effectively. But I still find that most entrepreneurs don't fully understand just how quickly it is possible to prototype and learn about their businesses. In this session we'll provide detailed, practical tools you can use to "stop building and start learning" for your business.


Lean Startup Basics

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Matt LeMay on the Four Principles of Product Management

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