Nate Walkingshaw started his first company in 2004 where he revolutionized medical evacuation with Paraslyde, later acquired by Stryker Medical. In 2011, Nate left Stryker to build Brightface, a product development company that focused on mobile and web applications including Cycleface which was acquired by Strava, the #1 fitness app for endurance athletes. Nate then became the Chief of Research and Innovation at Tanner Labs, where he built O.C. Tanner’s first human-centered product development team. In January 2015 Nate was named the Chief Product Officer for Pluralsight, the largest providers of online technology learning, where he built a user experinece centered product team, and in February 2016 Nate’s role expanded to Chief Experience Office to also oversee Development, Content, and Product Marketing. He is also the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O’Reilly 2017).
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Nate Walkingshaw
- - Nate's appreciation for user experience and collaborative problem solving
- - Nate on the value of diversity
- - How Nate connected with Pluralsight
- - User experience at Pluralsight
- - Advice for balancing the needs of different types of users and turning applications into products
- - Nate's story of failure - "building a solution for me, not for we"
- - Nate's book recommendations
- - Nate's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Nate
Resources:
- Pluralsight
- The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers - Matt Wynne
- Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire
- Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire on Developer On Fire
- The Parity Pledge
- The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century - Thomas L. Friedman
- A LEGO Brickumentary
- Lego Minifig
- Aaron Skonnard
- Martha Stewart
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Eric Evans on Developer On Fire
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
- Arrival
- Directed Discovery
- Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup - Nate Walkingshaw
Nate's book recommendation:
Nate's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Want to care enough to listen to another person
- Seek context with intention
- Co-create a solution and move forward