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S3E5: The Truth About Roadmaps: Why Dates Don't Deliver with Janna Bastow
Aug. 12, 2025

S3E5: The Truth About Roadmaps: Why Dates Don't Deliver with Janna Ba…

In this insightful episode, Karl Abbott sits down with Janna Bastow, co-founder of ProdPad and founder of Mind the Product, to explore the evolution of product roadmaps. Janna shares the origin story of the Now-Next-Later Roa...

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S3E4: Open Source, Real Business: Lessons from Mozilla and Microsoft with Reese Gifford
Aug. 5, 2025

S3E4: Open Source, Real Business: Lessons from Mozilla and Microsoft …

In this episode, Karl Abbott sits down with Reese Gifford to explore the complexities and opportunities of managing products in the open-source ecosystem. Drawing from her experience as VP of Product at Mozilla and her curren...

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S3E3: How to Make Pigs Fly (and Other PM Miracles) with Ali Rakhimov
July 29, 2025

S3E3: How to Make Pigs Fly (and Other PM Miracles) with Ali Rakhimov

In this insightful and entertaining episode, Karl Abbott sits down with Ali Rakhimov, author of Make Pigs Fly: Product Manager’s Bathroom Book. Ali shares his unconventional journey into product management, his philosophy of ...

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S3E2: Remote Realities: Product Management in a Hybrid World with Flora Taagen
July 22, 2025

S3E2: Remote Realities: Product Management in a Hybrid World with Flo…

In this insightful episode, Karl Abbott sits down with Flora Taagen, a product manager on the Azure Linux team at Microsoft. Flora shares her unconventional journey into product management, the lessons she’s learned along the...

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S3E1: Teaching Product Through Real World Experiences: A Conversation with Adil Hussain
July 15, 2025

S3E1: Teaching Product Through Real World Experiences: A Conversation…

In this episode of Productly Speaking, Karl Abbott chats with Adil Hussain, a product manager at the Financial Times, about his unconventional path into product management, the lessons he's learned from working across public ...

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