Episodes 13
Avg. Duration 31m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jul 2023
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Months
Format
Episodic
Consistency
82%
Hosting
feed.podbean.com

About This Podcast

John Young & Collin Lyons explore all things related to building digital products and leading digital transformations. In every episode we give you actions that you can put into practice immediately to reduce risk, create more effective and efficient product development capabilities, and build a culture of continuous learning.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 13: More questions to improve the return on your AI investments

Mar 27, 2026 38m

In this episode, Collin and I continue building our list of questions to help increase the chances of your AI investments delivering a return. We focus in particular on the role non-technical C-level…

Episode 12 - Questions worth asking when your AI investments aren't showing returns

Feb 08, 2026 42m

A significant number of AI initiatives are consuming budget and executive attention, while failing to reach production or deliver measurable value. Episode 12 of Talking Product helps you…

Episode 11 - Are we as product leaders really operating as a team?

Dec 07, 2025 38m

In this episode, Collin shares a case about a leadership team building a hardware and software product. We dig into this case because it highlights familiar product dynamics—great, passionate people,…

Episode 10 - Offsites that matter: Keeping the momentum alive

Jun 03, 2025 33m

In Episode 10, Collin and I dive into a question I was asked during an interview: “We do an offsite with our leadership team, and it’s a great couple of days… but once we’re back in the day-to-day,…

Episode 9 - What if you could measure what really matters to your customer? Alex Hidalgo on building an SLO culture

Nov 16, 2024 33m

What if you could measure what really matters to your customer?  In our latest episode of Talking Product, Collin and I chat with Alex Hidalgo—author of the O’Reilly book Implementing Service Level…

Episode 8 - VW's struggles with EV

Oct 09, 2024 20m

In this session Collin & I use Volkswagen’s struggle to build Electric Vehicle (EV) software as a way to explore two themes: the importance of getting a digital transformation right, and the…

Episode 7 - Bringing reality into the room - part 3 of avoiding the pitfalls of data projects

Jul 28, 2024 25m

In this last episode of our three part series, Collin and I continue to role-play an imaginary data-heavy product development project. In our last episode, Collin was granted some authority to get…

Episode 6 - Avoiding the pitfalls of data projects part 2

Apr 11, 2024 26m

In this episode, Collin and I continue to explore a digital product development project. Our project is heavily dependent on data and is to be delivered by an outside consulting firm. Our consulting…

Episode 5 - Avoiding the pitfalls of data projects part 1

Feb 21, 2024 24m

In this session, Collin & I explore a made-up data heavy project. It is based on projects that Collin and I have experienced previously in our careers. It is very typical of many digital…

Episode 4 - How do you facilitate a mindset shift?

Nov 25, 2023 33m

We use the term "mindset shift" a lot in the digital transformation space. But what does that term actually mean? How do you facilitate the shifting of a mindset? In this session, Collin and I…

Episode 3 - Questions for working with uncertainty

Oct 18, 2023 27m

In this episode, Collin and I work at unpacking this rather ambiguous idea of a “mindset shift”, which is so often used in digital transformations. We explore how the types of questions people in…

Episode 2 - Breaking apart the shorthand

Sep 24, 2023 32m

In this episode, Collin and I continue to explore the relationship between making product, learning, and facilitating organisational change. We use Collin's book, Make Learn Change as the springboard…

Episode 1 - A first look at Make Learn Change

Jul 17, 2023 34m

In this first episode, Collin and I start to explore Collin's book Make Learn Change. We discuss why a fair number of so-called “Agile transformations” simply don’t lead to meaningful improvements in…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Talking Product have?

Talking Product has published 13 episodes since July 2023, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.

Is Talking Product still active?

Talking Product is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 31m.

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