“Today my guests are Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles.”
Denise Tilles
Denise is a product leader, coach, and consultant helping companies with their product vision, strategy, and execution
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“Denise is a product leader, coach, and consultant helping companies with their product vision, strategy, and execution”
Frameworks in these episodes
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Hire-Experienced vs. Train-Up Decision Matrix
Decide whether to hire an experienced product ops person or train one, based on time and coaching capacity
Hiring Profiles by Product Ops Pillar
Match each product ops pillar to a distinct candidate background and skillset
Keep vs. Offload: The PM Decision-Rights Boundary
A clear line for what a PM keeps versus hands to product ops — decision rights never move
Product-Lens Metrics: Monitoring Product Health vs. Business Health
Segment company metrics through a product lens so leaders can actually monitor their strategy
The Three Pillars of Product Operations
Structure a product ops function around data insights, customer insights, and process to free PMs for strategic work
Which Product Ops Pillar to Start With
Choose your first product ops investment by company stage and where your biggest fire is
Resources in their episodes
- Amplitude
- Athenahealth
- Atlassian
- Continuous Discovery Habits
- Deutschland 83/86/89
- Dovetail
- Dragonboat
- Escaping the Build Trap
- Harvard
- Jira
- Jira Product Discovery
- Lenny's Podcast
- Looker
- Love Is Blind
- MongoDB
- OpenAI
- OpenSky
- Pendo
- Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Better Products at Scale
- Salesforce
- Stripe
- Tableau
- The Haunting of Hill House
- Traffic
- Uber
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