How Popular Trends Harm Your Product - Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile, N26

<p>There’s too much focus on trendy concepts like being agile. There’s too much distortion because of ego and pride. How do you stay authentic, skip the trends, and have better judgment in your work as a product manager?  </p><p><strong>About Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile</strong><br>Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile is a Senior Product Manager at N26. He started his career as an HR professional and transitioned into the product space as a self-taught individual. Being curious about technology, he eventually became a SAP consultant. Eventually, he held several product management roles. In another life, he would have become a carpenter. </p><p><strong>Links We Mentioned: </strong><br>Amplitude: https://amplitude.com/ <br>Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Kagan: https://www.amazon.com/EMPOWERED-Ordinary-Extraordinary-Products-Silicon/dp/111969129X </p><p><strong>SHOW NOTES:</strong><br>00:00 | Who is Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile<br>00:52 | Not having a product background <br>06:36 | 2 issues with data <br>10:37 | How to remove bias from decision making <br>12:54 | Fake agile companies OR How to actually become agile<br>16:48 | Discovery taking too long? OR Balancing discovery with delivery<br>20:34 | Useful product management tools <br>22:43 | Who knows more than you?<br>24:38 | Fireside: open-ended questions, going faster, negotiation, data</p><p><strong>QUOTES:</strong><br>[08:21] “Data has two main issues. First, it doesn't give you everything. You may have tons of data but it won't give you everything. Second, it’s highly interpretable so it's how you will interpret data. It doesn't mean that data is telling you something -  it means that you are understanding something from the data. You have your biases, your previous experience,  your previous knowledge that will make you think of data in the way you do.”</p><p><strong>Follow Edoardo Ferrara-Bardile: </strong><br>https://www.linkedin.com/in/edoardo-ferrara-bardile/ </p><p>Work with Crowdlinker:<strong> </strong><br>https://www.crowdlinker.com/c