Product Sense – Beyond the Interview Question

In this episode with Nader Balata, you will learn:

1. What is Product Sense and why is it important
2. Nader’s approach to Product Sense
3. How you can apply Product Sense in your day-to-day job as a PM

KEY DISCUSSION POINTS

[1:58] Nader’s story into Product

[4:10] What is Product Sense? What does it mean to have Product Sense?

[6:31] Why having Product Sense is important for PMs?

[8:51] What is your overall approach when you go about solving a Product Sense problem?

[12:01] An example of a Product Sense problem in an interview question

[29:42] An example of a Product Sense problem from Nader’s past experience 

[35:28] What makes a Product Sense problem difficult?

[41:56] What tools or resources do you recommend for our listeners to check out for nailing Product Sense

ABOUT NADER BALATA

Nader is a product manager with over 10 years of experience and active angel investor in two Toronto startups. He was previously a co-founder of FleetOps, a digital freight marketplace in the trucking space. He now runs product management at a healthtech startup.

LINKS

• Nader on LinkedIn
• Nader on Twitter
• Nader’s toolkit for PM job interviews
• Article on Product Sense by Shreyas Doshi

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Tagged as: Strategic Impact,  Voice of the Customer,  Feature Specification,  Fluency with Data.