Product Podcast
Join the product team at Leapfrog Technology as we tackle the big questions in the Product Management world. We approach questions and offer testimonials from the lens of our services oriented firm. From big stand alone products, to small emerging ideas, nothing is left uncovered.
Episodes
28 episodes
Introspecting Personal Habits for Remote or Work from Home
Covid-19 has become a forcing function for most people to work from home. It accelerated the trend in working from home, remote teams, and distributed teams. Most people are talking about logistics such as monitors, internet...
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1:03:46
Epic: Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry
Our digital transformation series takes us to the healthcare industry this episode as we explore the mega corporation, Epic. We navigate the pros and cons of Epic and their competitors in the quest to have usable and interoperable healthcare sy...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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46:59
Duolingo: A Case for AI Testing Models, Democratic Language Knowledge, and Accessible Learning
Continuing in our digital transformation series, we learn about how Duolingo changed the language education sector through a simple app. Duolingo hinges on its accessibility to many users and we explore how Luis Ahn, CEO of Duolingo and creator...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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39:43
The Digital Transformation of Domino's Pizza
In the first episode of our new digital transformation series, we will investigate how Domino's pizza turned themselves into a full-fledged technology company. You may think of Domino's Pizza as just your average delivery joint, but they played...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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42:18
Be The Greatest Product Manager Ever: Product Management Tips for the Consulting World with Lewis C. Lin
Lin is the best selling author of Decode and Conquer, one of the best books to prepare for product management interviews. He has years of experience leading teams at Google and Microsoft, and is currently the CEO of two companies, Impa...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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58:50
How to properly use POCs, MVPs, and prototypes
In product development, sometimes we need to pull out Proof of Concepts (POC), Minimum Viable Products (MVP), and prototypes from our toolkit. These terms are often misunderstood, or misused. We discuss what each of these tools are, when we nee...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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31:10
Defining and Contrasting B2B vs. B2C Products
At Leapfrog, we work with many types of companies and products. Some of these feature Business to Business (B2B) models, and some use a Business to Consumer (B2C) model. We unpack questions such as, what are these two models? How do they differ...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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40:01
How do we navigate the differences between buyers vs. users?
We unpack the differences between buyers and users in the product management space. Often, these groups can be confused, and sometimes they can even be the same! We discuss pressing questions like, who are these two groups of people? What infor...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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29:56
What Can Product Managers Learn from Stand-up Comics?
Product Management and stand-up comedy may seem like entirely different art forms, but in fact, the parallels in the iteration and user validation process are quite similar. We explore the path comedians take to honing a new routine, and compar...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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28:03
How do we successfully build new product features?
Once we have our product, it can be challenging to know when and how to launch new product features. We discuss what makes a successful feature, how to prioritize upcoming features, all while keeping our end user in the forefront of our minds. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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49:35
How to Run a User Test
Why do we conduct user tests? How do they help solve our end users' problems? We discuss what an effective user test looks like. This includes why user tests benefit a product, and what are the basic do's and don'ts about running the tests.
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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40:53
Unit Economics
Are you going to make a profit from one particular user? This question centers our discussion about unit economics. We unpack how to scale a product around this one metric, and how to keep it at the forefront of metric discussions. To l...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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33:35
Metrics and Analytics: Why, How, and When to Apply Them to Your Company
Metrics and analytics are the best way to ensure that you are building off of facts instead of just assumptions. We dive into the nitty gritty of how to start using them, why and how they work, and how to rally your team around your new data an...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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51:26
Product Roadmaps: How do we effectively make use of this tool?
Product Roadmaps: some people love them, some people find them useless. Why are people so divided on this tool? How can we effectively use them to benefit our company? In what instances do they work well, and when do they fail us? How do we wri...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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51:38
Product Management Tools
Starting with a mental framework, what tools do we need aid our daily work flow as Product Managers? The process can be broken down into 3 layers: the market, the users, and the tactical product. Being a good product manager means assessi...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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50:12
Best Frameworks and Methodologies for Product Management
There is a lot of jargon floating around in the tech world such as lean, agile, design thinking, scrum, and kanban. It can feel really overwhelming to determine which is the right fit for your company, product, or clients. We discuss what each ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:00:04
Step 7: Network Effect
Once your product has an established product market fit, we delve deeper into different types of network effects and which ones work for different kinds of markets. To learn more about our process and what we do, check out
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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40:16
Step 6: Product Growth
We pick up where we left off and further unpack how to grow our product once we establish our product market fit. Growing our market depends on a few variables including user engagement, word of mouth, and creative marketing. To le...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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33:08
Step 5: Product Market Fit
In this episode, we define product market fit, and discuss how to reach this point. We discuss the differences between enterprise and consumer products and how your client relationship will differ between these types of products. This discussio...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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36:26
Step 4: Mechanics of Building a Product
Once we have established our viable product, we need to know how we get our users onboard. Do we have a solid single user utility? Will this transition down the road into a multiple user utility? What is our hook to convince users to onboard? W...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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36:28
Step 3: What Makes a Viable Product?
In our fourth instalment of our series about the product development lifecycle, we look at what we need to create a viable product. A huge part of this portion is assessing who our users are, what they do, and what they think- and then convinci...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:24
Step 2: Understanding the Customer Lifecycle
In the second part of our product lifecycle series, we unpack how people interact with products. What triggers people to seek out solutions? What actions do they take? What reward do we receive? We discuss these questions and how to address the...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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36:33
Step 1: How to Successfully Run Your First Client Meeting
We understand the fundamentals of Product Management, we know what skills we need, and we have landed our first project! What comes next? How do we engage our clients? How do we ensure that they trust us with building their vision? We unpack th...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:54
Step 0: Defining the Role of Product Management
In this episode, we are tackling the fundamentals. We discuss how product managers bring value to a company, how their success is measured during projects, and we define the necessary skillset each PM needs. This provides the background informa...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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51:21
How to Implement the Circle Framework into a Services Company
How do you implement a problem solving methodology into client facing projects? We discuss the importance of having an arsenal of questions to ask during the foundational meetings at the beginning of client projects.The framework we refe...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:12