Product Management in Emerging Tech
About this episode
Niall Kennedy, Product Director at cloud workload management company YellowDog, talks with NovusNorth about leading a product in a space with no established playbook. Kennedy explains YellowDog's shift from an allocation-based to a consumption-based compute model, why 'actionable insight' works better than 'fail fast' as a mindset, and how visual prototyping and cross-industry research help product teams navigate genuinely emerging markets. The conversation gives a grounded look at how experienced product leaders stay oriented when there's no roadmap to copy from.
In this conversation we dig into what’s actually working, where teams get stuck, and the practical moves leaders can make right now — a candid look at the strategy, the trade-offs, and the human side of building great financial services experiences.
In this episode
- 01:35 How cloud compute sped up COVID vaccines
- 03:04 What would you do with a supercomputer?
- 05:10 Renting the chair instead of buying the desk
- 07:13 Why "fail fast" isn't the right term
- 10:52 Sometimes you just need crayons
