Product Innovation Series with Aram Melkoumov
Business:Management
About Marlon Hope
Marlon Hope is the Head of Product at Netacea. He is PRINCE 2 and Agile qualified, with years spent in banking, operations management, procurement, and logistics. The golden thread in his career is strong project management skills and consistent, high-quality delivery.
SHOW NOTES:
0:11 | Episode intro and what’s in for you
0:57 | How a computer game made Marlon a better product owner
5:07 | Good product building involves processes and patterns
7:38 | Marlon’s first principles of a good product design
10:01 | Marlon’s framework of stripping the root cause of a problem
14:00 | How project management and delivery helped Marlon become a product manager
18:43 | Common myths that prevent people from becoming a success in product delivery 22:50 | How being non-technical has helped Marlon in his product journey
27:17 | A bit about Netacea, how it works, and its difference from the competitors
29:40 | Other product lessons and key principles in terms of how Marlon operates
32:00 | How much your product’s data can give
13:15 | Wrap-up
QUOTES:
“Being a product developer, you don’t always have a perfect environment to be able to achieve excellence. There’s always some form of compromise that you have to make.” [5:40]
“Effective solving of problems that seem impossible requires quick experimentation. Don’t be hung up on getting the right answer, but plot a path of trial, failing, start again, but do it quickly and take opportunities to validate what we do.” [13:14]
“Being non-technical forces us to speak a common language that a four-year-old can understand.” [26:25]
“When you follow data, it’s very hard to make wrong decisions.” [31:37]
Connect with Marlon
Company’s Website: https://netacea.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlonhope/
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