Ep. 30 - Janna Bestow - ProdPad, building a Product Management Tool

From Stories Connecting Dots with Markus Andrezak by Markus Andrezak

January 6, 2025 · 1h 28m

About this episode

Janna Bastow discusses her journey in product management and the creation of ProdPad.

The star of this episode is Janna Bastow. You might know Janna from her role in setting up "Mind The Product" or as one of the business owners of the company running ProdPad, a specalized, really cool tool supporting smart work of Product Managers and Owners. But there's always more to the story of a person showing outcomes like these. In the episode, we follow Janna making her way from Canada to the UK. There she finds her self in a product management role, trying to figure out what that actually means. The role is not hat clear yet on our industry. Trying to figure that out, Janna is calling for action. She organizes community events for product people in a similar situations, which ultimately is the root of building the Mind The Product community. The rest of that is history. It grew to more than a community basically becoming a product minded media house. At that stage, Janna decided to seek the next challenge and follow and idea she had for some time: Building a tool that really focuses on the work of product people and only devoted to this. None of the tools on the market went far enough. So, together with Simon Cast, she went at it. Knowing the complex and multi faceted…

People in this episode

Guest: Janna Bastow

Topics covered

Product Management
Community Building
Entrepreneurship

Keywords

Mind The Product
Product Managers
Tool Development

Mentioned in this episode

Products: ProdPad, a Product Manager, ProdPod

Books & works: Mind The Product, Now, Next, Later

Places: Canada, UK