The Best Products Come From Focusing on Customer Outcomes, featuring Randal Whitmore Head of Growth @ Difrent

Here's what we discussed: What Difrent does as an organization Randal's role as Head of Growth Where Randal started his career and how he transitioned into Product Management How Difrent helped to quell the COVID storm in the UK The massive challenge that Randal was given to solve and the 7-day window he had to do it How the team approached the challenge and the massive team it took to tackle this hairy problem The process of developing and validating the MVP Why you'll likely always have to make some assumptions and why it's important to call those out and document them How the Design Sprint process was utilized brilliantly to tackle this challenge The initial launch of the product and how it scaled so quickly to all of the UK Support mechanisms Randal and his team put into place and the MVP process around the support infrastructure The culture and buy-in around the entire effort How crisis can help break down barriers that would typically be in place The personal driver behind Randal's passion in leading this product development effort How true user empathy leads to amazing outcomes The risks that Difrent identified early on and how they combined qual and quant data to validate the scale of the risk Why communication is such a vital skill for Product Managers