Key takeaways: -Learn active listening skills to ensure you understand stakeholder needs. Develop conversation framing techniques to ensure stakeholders understand you. -Employ 'if this is true, what else is true' to expand the scope of your discovery efforts. -Qualifications: Barry has run product management teams at large startups and now Spotify, and also runs an improvisational theater company.

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6. Barry Wright
S P E A K E R

7. A B O U T M E
2005-2009
Teaching: 😀
Research: 😒
2009-2012
Product: 😀
Edtech: 🐢
2012-2021
Product Teams: 😀😀😀
Adtech: 💻🤖
2021+
Product Teams and
Impact: 🚀🚀🚀

8. A B O U T M E
2005-2009
Teaching: 😀
Research: 😒
2009-2012
Product: 😀
Edtech: 🐢
2012-2021
Product Teams: 😀😀😀
Adtech: 💻🤖
2021+
Product Teams and
Impact: 🚀🚀🚀
2017+
Improv: 😂

9. A G E N D A
2.
1.
A formula for teamwork - listen, agree, add
Improv and Product Management?
4.
3.
If this is true, what else is true?
Communicate better with framing
5. Summary

10. Improvisation and Product Management?
Isn’t improv just funny people making things up?

11. Improv is:
1. A team activity
2. where exceptional communication
3. and free creativity
are applied to the domain of comedy.

12. Product Management is:
1. A team activity
2. where exceptional communication
3. and free creativity
are applied to the domain of business problems.

13. A formula for improved teamwork and trust.
👂 🤝 ➕

14. Frame with emotion, repetition, and rephrasing.
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NLIESDHFNLEZOIDSFBEIDSBVDLSZIUVNDSJFDKSLAIW
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15. If this is true, what else is true?

16. 2.
1.
S U M M A R Y
Build trust by listening and understanding
before you add in
Product Management is improvised business
problem solving
3. Get the right information by framing
conversations emotionally and verbally
4. Explore the problem space by asking, ‘if this is
true, what else is true?’

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