Jordan Dalladay is a product strategist and leader who works with startup founders to help them turn ambitious ideas into market successes. He specializes in "dragging a vision kicking and screaming into reality" with his consultancy, inherent ventures.

His hot take? We should invert our approach to product roadmapping. Instead of listing features to build, create a "risk-based product strategy" that outlines all the assumptions and potential pitfalls that could prevent success. This approach helps teams prioritize learning and experimentation, validating their riskiest assumptions first and dragging their vision into reality more effectively.

Find Jordan on LinkedIn and you can check out his firm, inherent ventures.

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• OKRs: The Gateway Drug to Agility & Good Product Management (Jeff Gothelf, Product Management Consultant & Co-author "Lean UX" )
• Adventures in Product Management (Dan Olsen, Author "The Lean Product Playbook")
• Fighting Fires in B2B Product Management (Rich Mironov, Author "The Art of Product Management")
• Your Product is a Joke - How to use Improv Comedy Principles in Product Management (Amogh Sarda, Co-founder @ Eesel)
• Putting Customers at the Heart of your Product Decisions (Hubert Palan, Founder @ Productboard)
• Servitising Product Management & Setting Up Product Teams For Success (Jas Shah, Product Consultant)
• Build What Matters with Vision-Led Product Management (Rajesh Nerlikar, Author "Build What Matters")
• Build Better Products at Scale with Product Operations (Melissa Perri & Denise Tilles, Product Consultants & Co-authors "Product Operations")

Chris Butler is a "Chaotic Good Product Manager" who has worked for companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook. He's currently Staff Product Operations Manager at GitHub, and current running an online course on AI Product Design Patterns.

His hot take? That product managers don't need to be technical and that it might even be a net negative to their relationship with the engineering team.

Find Chris on LinkedIn and remember to check out his AI product course, "AI Product Design Patterns" .

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• Survive the Feature Factory by Applying Product Thinking to Product Thinking (John Cutler, Product Evangelist & Coach @ Amplitude)
• The Five Dysfunctions of Product Management Teams (Saeed Khan, Founder @ Transformation Labs)
• Practice Makes Perfect: Embracing the Messy Reality of Product Management (Matt LeMay, Product Management Consultant & Author "Product Management in Practice")
• May Wong's Hot Take - Product Management is a Team Sport (May Wong, Product Operations Consultant & Coach)
• Dean Peters' Hot Take - There's More to be Said About the Instagram-ification of Product Management (Dean Peters, Principal Consultant & Trainer @ Productside)
• Applying Product Management Principles to Life (Miloš Belčević, Author "Build Your Way")
• Product Processes & the Importance of Work / Life Balance (Busayomi Omotosho, Product Manager @ Softcom)
• Jeremy Kirouac's Hot Take - Founders Need Product Management Training (Jeremy Kirouac, Fractional Product Leader)

Jeremy Kirouac is a "Pan-Canadian" product leader and former startup founder who has thrown himself headlong into the world of fractional product leadership, as well as helping advise companies in all things product-related.

His hot take? That startup founders live in information bubbles that concentrate solely on revenue and don't spend enough time teaching them good product management fundamentals. This impacts their chances of building a good product company and impacts their relationship with product management teams as they scale.

Find Jeremy all over Canada, or on LinkedIn.

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• Moving Beyond Founder-Led Product Development & Setting PMs up for Success (Jennifer Yang-Wong, VP of Product @ Contrary)
• Build Products Businesses Want with the Lean B2B Pyramid (Étienne Garbugli, Author "Lean B2B", "Find your Market" and "Solving Product")
• Your Product is a Joke - How to use Improv Comedy Principles in Product Management (Amogh Sarda, Co-founder @ Eesel)
• Chris Locke's Hot Take - Product Leaders Need to Adopt a VC Mindset (Chris Locke, CEO @ Aspire)
• Upping Your Odds of BEATING the LinkedIn Algorithm (Ivana Todorovic, CEO @ AuthoredUp)
• Greg Prickril's Hot Take - AI is going to change everything for Product Managers (Greg Prickril, B2B Product Management Coach, Consultant & Trainer)
• May Wong's Hot Take - Product Management is a Team Sport (May Wong, Product Operations Consultant & Coach)
• Dean Peters' Hot Take - There's More to be Said About the Instagram-ification of Product Management (Dean Peters, Principal Consultant & Trainer @ Productside)