In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board member Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Ariel Dos Santos (Peloton Interactive) to talk about storytelling. Apart from collecting data to qualify and quantify a product being developed, it is also important to tell stories based on data so everyone on the team is aware and onboard the production plan. 
 
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What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
04:16 Storytelling is an important tool in a PM’s toolkit
08:58 The SUCCESS framework  
12:15 With storytelling, you become a lawyer, a detective, and a dreamer
13:42 The four types of story we tell
17:20 We want the customer to be the center of every story
19:37 Part of storytelling is giving space for people to react and to ask questions
22:47 Data is used to tell stories
24:20 Qualitative or quantitative data?
28:42 Observe and talk to several people to gather data over time
31:28 Demo-driven questions from the target audience
40:00 Which matters more for PMs, quant or qual
42:21 When initial inputs are in, you turn to quant
44:18 How qualitative data works
48:21 It depends where you’re at in the maturity of your product
50:45 You’ll get better at storytelling over time
52:14 Treat every interaction as an opportunity to experiment