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Steve Portigal: Improving your user research process

Steve Portigal is a veteran user research leader and consultant who helps companies mature their research practices. He’s the author of Interviewing Users, a classic in the field, and the host of the design leadership podcast...

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June 28, 2024

Steve Portigal: Improving your user research process

Steve Portigal is a veteran user research leader and consultant who helps companies mature their research practices. He’s the author of Interviewing Users, a classic in the field, and the host of the design leadership podcast...

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May 30, 2024

Christian Idiodi: Telling the story of transformation

Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). Before SVPG, he profoundly shaped or reshaped the culture and products of CareerBuilder, Snagajob, and led the product transformation in Datasite, the firs...

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April 13, 2024

Martina Hodges-Schell: Understanding your operating model

Martina Hodges-Schell is a transformation coach and consultant that helps organizations adopt a Silicon Valley approach to innovation. She spent 25 years leading design and innovation in tech companies, and now she loves prov...

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March 13, 2024

Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model

Marty Cagan joins me for real talk about transforming into a strong product company.

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Jan. 23, 2024

Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products

Randy Silver is a product leadership advisor, podcast host, and global product community weaver. We explore the conversations needed to drive impact and perception of value. You can also read this episode here. — Topics discu...

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Dec. 12, 2023

(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing

Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. This is a short, bonus episode to go along with our main conversation : https://pod.fo/e/20a5ef

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