Janna Bastow
Janna Bastow is a former product manager, and currently the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad. She also co-founded Mind the Product, a community for PMs, which has grown to 300,000 members across the world.
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Career (separate track) Skills
The strongest professional communities are built on a foundation of shared vulnerability and a grassroots commitment to learning together rather than formal networking.
"Honestly, it wasn't so much that we set out to build a community, it was that we got together with some product people with the idea that we didn't know what we were doing. And so we figured if we got..."
Planning & Prioritization Skills
A product roadmap should function as a prototype for your strategy, serving as a tool to validate assumptions rather than a fixed execution plan.
"The value isn't in your roadmap, the value is in the roadmapping process. What you're actually doing is laying out your assumptions of the problems that you're solving."