Janna Bastow

Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

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Opening
Janna Bastow (00:00:00): The whole point about a roadmap is that it's not designed to be your plan. I think about it as being a prototype for your strategy. What I mean by that is we talk about prototyping all the time in the lean world and a prototype is essentially a way of checking your assumptions. Generally, we think about it in terms of a design or like a model, but think about it at the strategy level....

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Low-ego framing
I think about it as being a prototype for your strategy. What I mean by that is we talk about prototyping all the time in the lean world and a prototype is essentially a way of checking your...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (00:53:11): Amazing. Thank you for being here, Janna. Janna Bastow (00:53:13): Of course, thanks so much. Lenny (00:53:16): Thank you so...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
the ProductTank was like 200 going on almost 300 cities around the world. I don't know what that number is today. I know that it sort of went up and then down and then back up again. Some of those are...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Ending
Lenny (00:52:32): Janna, this has been amazing. I think we covered a lot of different topics, more than we often cover in a podcast like this. Two final questions, where can folks find you online if they'd like to reach out and learn more? And how can listeners be useful to you? Janna Bastow (00:52:45): Wonderful. Hi, I'm Janna Bastow. You can find me all on Twitter, I'm simplybastow there. Or come find me on LinkedIn, connect with me, I'm Janna Bastow. I'm easy to find there. And come check out ProdPad....

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