20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, master of product reviews, author, investor, and currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.
Tony Fadell, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of the last 30 years as one of the makers of some of the most game-changing products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest.
Lenny Rachitsky is one of the OGs of product, having spent over 7 years at Airbnb as a product lead he left to start his newsletter, find it here.
Kayvon Beykpour is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 years, Kayvon has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research and Customer Service & Operations.
Aparna Chennapragada is Chief Product Officer @ Robinhood, the company revolutionising consumer finance with commission-free investing.
In Today's Episode Breaking Down Product Reviews We Discuss:
1.) What makes a truly great product review?
2.) What are the biggest mistakes that product leaders make when leading product reviews?
3.) Who should be invited to the product review? How does this change with scale? How does this change in a world of remote work and Zoom?
4.) Who should set the agenda for the product review?
5.) How can leaders assign accountability and ensure that the follow-ups from product reviews are executed on?
6.) How can leaders ensure that they do not dominate product reviews with the weight of their words? How can they give designers and devs the space to share their thoughts without being judged?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is 20 Product with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, 20 Product is the monthly show where we speak to |
| 0:04.4 | the leading product minds in the world to unpack their tips, tactics and strategies to building |
| 0:09.3 | the best performing product teams. Now, over the last six months, the most common question we've had |
| 0:14.0 | from thousands of product people listening to the show is on product reviews, how to structure |
| 0:18.5 | them, when to do them, who to invite, what makes a good |
| 0:21.6 | versus a bad product review, who should set the agenda, and how do they change in a world of |
| 0:26.3 | remote work? So today I thought it would be amazing to gather the thoughts of the best product |
| 0:30.4 | minds in the world to answer exactly these questions. This is a product review 101 and a masterclass. |
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