EP 117 - Mapper Method with Christoph Steinlehner

Have you ever seen those pictures of a group of people with sticky notes around a whiteboard, working their way through a tough problem and coming with some innovative solutions? Did you feel they know something you don’t, and their work seems so much fun, while yours is not as creative?

Well, it’s not as hard as it looks and you can do it too! But it’s always good to have a structure for the madness. And we got one for you in this episode! Featuring Christoph Steinlehner, Product Coach and Consultant, creator of the MAPPER Method (who started his career as a designer), Matt and Moshe sat down to learn from him how using visual methods and tools can help identifying gaps, aligning teams to the same mental model, and creating some innovation magic!

Join us as we learn from Christoph:

• How he got into product management
• How did he come up with the MAPPER Method
• The MAPPER Method structure and how to go by each step:
  • Map your thoughts 
  • Acknowledge Perspectives
  • Point Assumptions & Risks
  • Plan and Act
  • Evaluate for Insights
  • Reflecting and improving
• Use cases and situations where the MAPPER Method helped him and the teams he worked with
• Using MAPPER in different stages of the product, like GTM, customer support, marketing etc
• The power of visual tools, and shifting from plain conversations and all their inherited issues
• The importance of humbleness! 
• How the culture of the company creates the space for or put challenges in using the method
• The importance of having some analog tools in our toolkit
• And much more!

Contact Christoph if you are interested to hear more, including an explainer document for the method.

You can connect with Christoph at:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csteinlehner/ 
• Website: https://csteinlehner.com/ 
• Mapper Club on Substack: https://mapperclub.substack.com/ 

You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin:

• Product for Product Podcast - linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast
• Matt Green - linkedin.com/in/mattgreenanalytics/
• Moshe Mikanovsky - linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/

Note: any views mentioned in the podcast are the sole views of our hosts and guests,  and do not represent the products mentioned in any way.

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