ProdPad
company on 2 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 17 times in 2 episodes since 2021
Lenny's Podcast 15 
We Live to Build 2
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Bastow: Product planning further out is inherently guesswork
“The further out you plan, the more you're making it up. We know this.”
Bastow: Discovery and psychological safety separate the best product teams from mediocre ones
“A focus on discovery. So this ability to spend time in discovery and asking questions of customers and constantly being able to iterate based on that and psychological safety. So teams who are able to question each other, speak up when they see that things are…”
Bastow: Enterprise product culture must be transformed incrementally through small pockets
“Changing the mindset of the whole company is just too difficult, right? It's set in stone and it's stuck where it is and can't change them all at once. But we can change this one little space right here because we've got a shithot leader who knows what they're…”
Bastow: ProdPad is intentionally designed to restrict timeline-based roadmaps
“When you create a roadmap in ProdPad, it makes it difficult to add features and dates to the roadmap. It makes it difficult to make a timeline-based roadmap. It makes it difficult to add ideas to the backlog that are not thought through, because it asks questi…”
Bastow: Product roadmaps are strategy prototypes, not execution plans
“So 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 chec…”
Feature upvoting lacks context and requires qualitative validation
“One of the challenges I do feel like with the upvoting is that you sometimes don't understand the why. Someone might get some user feedback. Oh, you know, I would love this feature, but what, why, why do you want it? What about it do you like? What value is it…”