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S3 | Ep 30 | What Even is a Data Product...with Bethany Lyons, Chief Product Officer at Kawa Analytics
Episode 3030th May 2023 • Driven by Data: The Podcast • Orbition Group
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In Episode 30 of Season 3, of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Bethany Lyons, Chief Product Officer at Kawa Analytics, where they discuss the current data product landscape and what actually constitutes a data product, which includes;

  • The fascinating story of Kawa and the problems it solves
  • Delivering Data Products versus Data Projects
  • The differences between product management principles applied to data and data products 
  • Why most data teams operate like an IT Service Desk and why product thinking can change that
  • Why you should start by applying product management to data before you try to build data products
  • Why a product management approach forces value-driven thinking
  • How we have ‘Data Product Managers’ who aren’t doing Data Product management
  • Why there’s a better success measure for your data initiative than usage/adoption
  • Where you should hire your first Data Product Manager
  • Platform versus Feature Product Managers and why they’re rarely interchangeable
  • How data products differ from traditional products
  • Why marketplaces will be the future of data product
  • The relationship between self-service analytics and data as a product
  • What actually constitutes a data product
  • The biggest unspoken challenge in the data-mesh discussion
  • The impact of org structure and operating model on data product success
  • Why too many businesses try to scale their data product before establishing product market fit
  • What data product people should do to position themselves for the wave of incoming opportunity

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