Product Management Speaker

Wrapped my UC Berkeley class this week. 12 teams interviewed over 100 potential customers. Each of the 35 students created a clickable prototype using an AI vibe coder (thank you to Bolt for their help here).

I pride myself on creating classes, workshops and coaching that are deeply hands-on... focused on learning by doing.

Recently, I helped teach a Product Management course for Christina Wodtke at Stanford University.

Christina has created a fast-paced hands-on course focused on giving Stanford students a real feel for how to be an industry Product Manager.

The class is CS 177: Human-Centered Product Management and I was fortunate to teach 6 of the 20 sessions. Albert Collell is another co-teacher in the class.

I judged a hackathon where 25+ teams formed and stormed ways to connect AI to the physical world. From avoiding stalkers to sensing worrisome mechanical vibrations to assessing couples' arguments, the ideas were flowing.

Unlike traditional hackathons that spanned full weekends and required well-balanced teams of designers, developers, and business thinkers, this modern AI hackathon offers just two hours of focused, hands-on experimentation.

Participants explore the latest AI tools like Replit, Bolt, v0, and Lovable, and walk away having built functioning prototypes without any coding experience.

Under stress, company leaders often revert to a “command and control” culture. Product teams and their leaders can change this trajectory by using quantitative and qualitative data to earn trust, speak truth to power and win over stakeholders.

Learn how an iterative, bottoms-up transformation can deliver positive results sooner without the risk incurred with big bang reorgs and changes.

Just finished my University of California, Berkeley course. This year was in-person. We were all locked in. No multi-tasking, 100% participation, no spectators

Companies set goals. Teams deliver features. But they aren't connected. Launching software isn't enough to guarantee company success. Learn to connect the everyday work of individual teams with company goals. Learn how well-written metrics can spot problems, discover new opportunities, and guide decision making.

Making outstanding products with outsourced teams is challenging. How can we create a unified and innovative team when collaborating with outsourced engineers and designers?

This panel explores the significant challenges that UX and product professionals face, particularly in securing executive buy-in for user research and what non-UX executives are looking to see.

Has your Product team created a “pixel perfect” design before even talking to users? Does your team fall in love with ideas too quickly?

Find out how to use a Design to Learn approach to create “realistic enough” experiences that are meant to learn from users, not persuade them.

Build better prototypes and get your ideas in front of customers faster.

Companies set goals. Product teams deliver features. But they aren't connected. Consistent delivery isn't enough to guarantee company success. Learn to connect the dots between a company's goals and the everyday work of individual teams.

Too often, ideas go straight from stakeholders to delivery.

How can your team focus on solving a real customer problem?

By understanding why they are building an idea, teams can ground their product decisions in customer and business realities.

In this summit, you'll learn how to perform user research with minimal resources, how to synthesize data easily, how to get product market fit and most importantly how to stay fit when you got there.

I spoke virtually at the Product Management Summit held in Shanghai, China.

I did a compare and contrast on how NOT to conduct Product Discovery vs how to BEST do Product Discovery.

I covered the DOs and DONTs of managing teams doing Product Discovery.

Then I explained the best ways to run a discovery experiment to get the best feedback from users.

Speaking at the BAistanbul Conference:

Learn about Customer Interviewing. What’s a “bad” interview? What’s a “good” interview? Get actual resources to make your own great interviews.

Don't wait for a UX researcher. You can successfully interview customers. Learn when should you speak to customers and how can you get the most out of that precious time.

Don't wait for a UX researcher. You can successfully interview customers. Learn when should you speak to customers and how can you get the most out of that precious time.

Customer interviews are a critical part of the process of building great products that customers want to buy but they are rarely done well.

In this workshop session, Jim will show why customer interviews should be an integral part of your product development process and what you can learn from them.

From assembling the right team to crafting the right prototype to conducting the right customer interview, every organization can use Product Discovery to find great ideas sooner and accelerate growth. On June 14th, Jim Morris, Founder of the Product Discovery Group, will present concrete techniques you can start using immediately to weed out bad ideas and focus on the good ones from 25 years of mistakes and successes.