Colin Lernell, Udacity Lead Product Manager

Colin is the Product Lead heading the Student Experience product group at Udacity, the edtech company founded by Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X and Google Self-Driving Cars.

He also started Udacity Blitz, worked in product for the on-demand business expert marketplace Catalant and has assisted many startups and Fortune 500 tech companies with Product, Growth, and Analytics.

Session Highlights

- What Design Sprint is (3:44)
- The benefits of running Design Sprint for Product Managers and why we should use it (4:26)
- How the Design Sprint fits in the product development process (8:06)
- The stages of Design Sprint (9:06)
- The five steps to take to convice the management to use Design Sprint as a norm (10:47)
- How regular should a company runs Design Sprint and the reasons behind it (21:34)
- How Design Sprint impacts the product roadmap (23:29)
- The ideal size of a Design Sprint team and the "right" people in it (26:38)
- The stage to be set before running a Design Sprint (31:08)
- The data points to gather before and during the Design Sprint (32:41)
- The Design Sprint oriented activities and practices to gather customer intelligence (37:45)
- The process of mapping out the problem and pick an important problem space to focus on in Design Sprint (40:32)
- How to turn ideas into a testable hypothesis (52:10)
- What to do after a Design Sprint is done (58:06)
- The elevator pitch for persuading the management to use Design Sprint (1:01:22)

The recommended resources for further study in Product Management (1:02:23)

- The Sprint Book - How to Convince Your Boss to Run a Design Sprint
- Product Design - Validation and UX through Design Sprints - by Udacity
- The Design Sprint by Google Venture
- Product Hunt Radio
- Udacity Podcast
- The Art of Saying No
- How to build a Startup

Connect with Colin

- LinkedIn
- Quora
- Medium
- Email