Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 7, 2025
👋 Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM.
Product Innovation Educators
JANUARY 13, 2025
A product manager’s guide to breaking free from reactive problem solving Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Doug Hall, master of turning chaos into clarity, we explored how product managers and innovation leaders can break free from reactive problem-solving and create more value through proactive innovation. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5 hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes.
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Mind the Product
JANUARY 13, 2025
Perhaps only five years ago, most product managers had limited exposure to APIs. Today in contrast, Product Managers are regularly encountering APIs. Whether connecting digital experiences, driving ecosystems, or unleashing the power of AI, APIs now play a critical role in digital products and business strategy. However, a quick look at Product Management discussion boards, Read more » The post Ten tips for product managers to get confident with APIs appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 3, 2025
In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Garrett Lang explains why daily communication with developers is crucial for product managers. He shares his own routine of meeting with his offshore developers every day to ensure clarity and overcome any ambiguity in product specifications.
Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations
ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!
The Product Manager Coach Blog
JANUARY 14, 2025
When Jane, a seasoned product manager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. But within a month, she felt like she was treading water. Stakeholders questioned her priorities, her team wasnt aligned, and early wins felt out of reach. Despite her years of experience, Jane realized something critical: even seasoned PMs need a plan to establish credibility in a new environment.
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Productside
APRIL 2, 2025
90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. In our recent webinar, Dean Peters and Tom Evans shared a smarter way forward: storyboarding. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox.
The Basics of Product Management
JUNE 21, 2025
Welcome to the ultimate guide to Product Manager interview questions. In this post, we’ll break down the types of questions you’ll face and how to answer them with confidence. Types of Product Manager Interview Questions Behavioral: “Tell me about a time…” Product Sense: “How would you improve…” Technical: Understanding systems, APIs, and trade-offs Case Study: Real-world scenarios to test your thinking How to Answer: “Tell me about a product you admire” This is a common question to assess your
Roman Pichler
JULY 7, 2025
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Confusing Vision with Strategy For a product vision to be effective, it is best captured by a simple, easy-to-understand statement or slogan. For example, the vision for a presentation tool like Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides might be “inform and inspire people.” What the product vision shouldn’t be, though, is a strategic decision-making framework.
BrainMates
MAY 26, 2025
How to Conduct a Competitor Analysis: A Practical Guide for Product Managers By Adrienne Tan A competitor analysis is one of the essential activities you should undertake before launching a new product or business. At Brainmates, we follow a six-step process to evaluate the competition and use those insights to make informed product decisions. Why Competitor Analysis Matters As Product Managers, having a solid understanding of our competitors and their movements in the market empowers us to make
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When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.
UX Planet
MAY 1, 2025
A Product Design Perspective image sourcelink From chatbots to collaborative canvases, heres how AI is reshaping the way we interact with digital products. Artificial intelligence is not just a backend technology anymoreits now front and center in the user experience. As designers, were no longer just creating static interfaces; were shaping dynamic, adaptive systems that learn, respond, and even create alongside us.
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 12, 2025
Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Cloudinary —The foundational technology for all images and video on the internet • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster • Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development — Rohini Pandhi is a product leader at Mercury, and previously spent over seven years at Square/Block leading product work on Square payments, invoicing, and the Bitkey hardwar
Product Innovation Educators
JANUARY 6, 2025
The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership. Her path highlights how responsibilities evolve from hands-on product development to strategic business leadership, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning, vulnerability, and stro
Mind the Product
JANUARY 14, 2025
In our latest podcast episode on The Product Experience, Glenn Block, Founder and CEO of ProdSense, discusses the concept of product equity. He emphasizes the importance of creating fair and equitable products in the tech industry, especially amid advances in AI. He shares his journey from a software developer to a product leader and the Read more » The post Understanding Product Equity in Tech – Glenn Block (Founder and CEO, ProdSense) appeared first on Mind the Product.
Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive
Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 17, 2025
In the latest TPG Live session, Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation , we dived into strategies product managers can use to expand their influence, foster innovation, and navigate the evolving landscape of product management. Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level.
Product Management University
MARCH 2, 2025
The biggest reason product manager demos need to be great has a lot more to do with internal stakeholders than any other audience. Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for product managers, but most product manager demos are to internal audiences. Ive seen more than my fair share of product manager demos to internal audiences.
Product Talk
JULY 9, 2025
Trying to adopt the product operating model ? One of the keys to success is remembering that it’s not just about product teams—it’s an organization-wide transformation. This is why Hope Gurion and I have been doing a series on organizational change. In our years as product coaches, we’ve seen how many companies underestimate what’s actually involved in this type of transformation.
Tyner Blain
MARCH 20, 2025
What we want from our leaders is for them to set a direction. To inspire us to advance a strategy or realize a vision. What we get too often is dictation, where they tell us what they want us to build. Changing this relationship requires us to change how we interact. As product managers we can change the conversation. Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Innovatemap
AUGUST 6, 2025
When your product starts gaining traction, it’s easy to think you’ve made it. But what comes next, scaling the right way, is where many early-stage teams get stuck. Innovatemap partnered with HearstLab for a lunch and learn in NYC where Jake Trowbridge and Ashley King joined Tamara Zubatiy , CEO and Co-founder at Barometer , to share what it really takes to turn momentum into a product that scales.
Roman Pichler
MAY 12, 2025
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview of the Matrix The Innovation Ambition Matrix, which was developed by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, considers the newness of the product on its horizontal axis and the newness of the market on the vertical axis. This allows us to distinguish three different innovation types: core, adjacent, and disruptive, as Figure 1 shows. [1] Figure 1: The Innovation Ambition Matrix Note that Nagji and Tuff use the term transformational instead of disr
BrainMates
MAY 28, 2025
The 4 Capabilities Product Managers Need Now And Into The Future By Adrienne Tan Product management is at a crossroads. We’ve spent too long in delivery mode. It’s time to reassess the capabilities we need and step into our rightful role as strategic navigators and orchestrators. The four critical capabilities product managers need today and beyond are: Commercial Acumen.
UX Planet
MAY 1, 2025
Part 3 (of 3) in the Designing UX Surveys That Work series. In Part 1 , we covered the essential Dos for creating impactful surveys, and in Part 2 , we focused on identifying and eliminating bias in survey questions. In this final part, well explore the broader landscape of common bias traps that can compromise your survey data and discuss strategies to minimise theirimpact.
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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y
Business of Software Conference
JUNE 30, 2025
One of the most critical, and most overlooked, skills in product leadership isn’t technical or even strategic. It’s stakeholder engagement. As Bruce McCarthy puts it: “Even the most perfect plan can fail if your organization isn’t aligned.” Early in his career, Bruce launched a promising new product, only to watch it flop. Why? He hadn’t brought sales or marketing into the process.
Product Innovation Educators
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. Her journey from corporate product management to successful startup founder offers valuable lessons for product managers and innovators.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 8, 2025
The consistent advice from product thought leaders and sages is that you should spend as much time as you can learning – building skills, deepening your understanding of product management and learning about new developments in ways to approach your craft. But where do you go for help? What resources can you depend upon to Read more » The post The best resources for product managers in 2025 appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Guy
AUGUST 8, 2025
Too many agile teams mistake movement for momentum. Backlogs get longer, everyone is busy, but the product is not moving forward. In this episode, Drew Falkman (Principal at Moves The Needle) explains why unordered work quietly slows teams down and how simple, ruthless prioritization can unlock real progress without adding unnecessary process. What You’ll Learn: Prioritization Gaps : Why unordered backlogs quietly stall progress and how to fix them fast Structure in Agile : How prioritizat
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Usersnap
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Asking the right product discovery questions helps uncover the deeper needs driving user behavior and expectations. Without a clear understanding of these factors, products risk failing to meet real-world demands.
Product Talk
JUNE 18, 2025
A single champion can often inspire an organization to shift to the product operating model —especially if that champion is the CEO or CPO. But that’s only the first step. Your transformation will get stuck without support from people throughout your company. Over the past few months, I’ve been discussing this topic with Hope Gurion. We’re reflecting on what we’ve seen after years of coaching hundreds of teams and companies.
Tyner Blain
MARCH 2, 2025
“I don’t get to set the direction. Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” This is a common situation for a lot of product managers. They’ve been told that some big initiative is happening, and it’s up to them to “make it work.” Without all the details needed to unambiguously define what “it” is.
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