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Episode 66 - Avoiding Bulls**t Product Advice & Focusing on the Essential (with Henry Latham, Founder @ Prod MBA)
Episode 66: Avoiding Bulls**t Product Advice & Focusing on the Essential
Henry Latham, Founder @ Prod MBA
About the Episode
An interview with Henry Latham. Henry started out studying Spanish & Portuguese before having an epiphany and moving into foundership and product management. Disappointed with the applicability of some of the education materials out there, and reeling from being fired by a dysfunctional product company, he decided to double down and build an education programme to really help people move the needle and build products effectively.
We talk about a lot, including:
- How dissatisfaction with all the standard product content out there drove him to start Prod MBA, and how it differs from other more established product schools
- Details of the Prod MBA approach and how they get you from defining a vision and building a releasable product in 8 weeks
- How to land product thinking with people that aren't necessarily from a product background and have a more traditional view of business
- How to sell the concept of business risk to traditional stakeholders and get comfortable with risk yourself
- How getting fired from a product job opened his eyes and led him to inspire better product managers in the future
- The importance of getting out of negative thought patterns & not accepting your fate but actually working to make it better
- How to help people to move the needle in dysfunctional companies and making your own moves to demonstrate the value of product thinking
- Why he wrote his two books "Why Your Startup is Failing" and "Product Leadership Starts With You", some of the key themes, and how they'll help you be a better founder & build better products
- Some of the problems he has with agile frameworks, specifically Scrum, what his alternative is and whether it's Scrum Inc's job to fix it
And much more!
Check out Prod MBA
If you like the sound of Henry's product training programme, check out the Prod MBA website for more details.
Buy Henry's books
Henry has two books:
Check it out on Amazon or Goodreads.
Check it out on Amazon or Goodreads.
Contact Henry
If you want to catch up with Henry, you can reach him on LinkedIn.
Related episodes you should like:
- Data-Informed Decision Making and the Three Cs of Product Management (Roger Snyder, VP of Products & Services @ 280 Group)
- The Five Dysfunctions of Product Management Teams (Saeed Khan, Founder @ Transformation Labs)
- Treating your Career as a Product & Making a Wicked Impact as a Product Leader (Gibson Biddle, Former VP Product @ Netflix & Chegg)
- Going Beyond Idealistic Book Principles & The Myth of Unicorn Product Managers (Emily Tate, Managing Director @ Mind the Product)
- Product Management in Africa & Dreams of an African Silicon Valley (Layo Ogunbanwo, Founder @ Practical Product)
- Product Management Lessons from a PM Turned Teacher Turned PM (Melanie McKay, Head of Consumer Product @ Rightmove)
- Transforming companies & instilling a product mindset (Dave Martin, Founder @ Right to Left)
- Transforming your Organisation to the Product Operating Model (Marty Cagan, Author "Inspired", "Empowered" and "Transformed")
