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Coaching and Discovery in Product. What High-Performing Teams Are Doing Differently [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

At our latest TPG Live roundtable, we brought together four leading voices in product coaching, discovery, and strategy. The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Why AI Product Management Certification Matters More Than Ever

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Why AI Product Management Certification Matters More Than Ever Lets be realAI is no longer a buzzword on the product roadmap. Its an urgent shift in how we build, scale, and deliver value. And the PMs who can navigate that shift with confidence? Theyre the ones getting promoted, pulled into strategy conversations, and trusted to lead.

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The Innovation Ambition Matrix

Roman Pichler

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

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Context, intent, change, purpose, constraints – a model for communicating requirements

Mind the Product

Discover a new approach to communicating product requirements by learning from the military orders process. Shift from rigid specs to clear intent, context, purpose, and constraints to empower software teams with autonomy and adaptability. Read more » The post Context, intent, change, purpose, constraints – a model for communicating requirements appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes Most product managers dont set out to write bad requirements. Theyre under pressure to deliver. Theyre surrounded by requests. And theyre juggling context, roadmaps, and Jira ticketsjust trying to keep up. So what happens? We write whats easy.

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Product in Practice: Evaluating If a New API is Needed

Product Talk

Its one thing to iterate on an existing product. Its a whole other challenge to identify brand-new products to offer. The same is true for API products. The difficulties you face from going to 0 to 1understanding your customer, identifying what will differentiate your product, building early versions of that product, and actually finding customers to use it?

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The Most Underrated Product Move: Removal

The Product Guy

Product quality is shaped as much by what you remove as by what you ship. Feature bloat slows teams down, confuses users, and hides the real value of your product. But most teams avoid removals because they feel risky, political, or like an admission of failure. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead feature removals with evidence, clarity, and confidence.

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Sunday Rewind: Product, dance, and pockets of brilliance by Pippa Topp

Mind the Product

In this keynote session at #mtpcon London 2022, Pippa Topp, then Interim Head of Product at Charlotte Tilbury, talks about product and creating pockets of brilliance. Pippa started her career as a project manager and comments that its hard to get to grips with the idea that youre a proper product manager when so often Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: Product, dance, and pockets of brilliance by Pippa Topp appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Welcome to a ✨ free monthly edition ✨ of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lenny’s Podcast | How I AI | Lennybot | Lenny’s Reads | Courses | Swag If you aren’t a paid subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Make product management fun again with AI agents State of the product job market in 2025 The ultimate guide to negotiating your comp S

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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How to Create Product Tours [UI Patterns, Tips, and More]

Userpilot

Most onboarding improvement efforts start the same way: create product tours. However, not every product needs one, and not every product tour is especially helpful. So, how do you know if your product needs a tour? And if it does, how do you make it short, engaging, and useful? Thats exactly what Ill cover in this guide. Does your product need a product tour?

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Mastering Prioritization with RICE: A Strategic Discipline for PMs

The Product Guy

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in.

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Why self-care is your secret weapon as a product manager

Mind the Product

In today’s tech landscape, product managers face unprecedented challenges. As the linchpin connecting strategy, execution, technology, and market demands, product managers operate in a high-pressure environment where burnout isn’t just a risk it’s practically an occupational hazard. But what if prioritising your wellbeing wasn’t just about personal health, but actually a strategic advantage?

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Rising Fast: 4 Innovation Lessons from Uber’s Nimisha Sharath

Amplitude

Learn lessons about product innovation and get to know the winner of the 2025 Product 50 Most Promising Up-and-Comer category: Nimisha Sharath of Uber

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster Nabeel Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer, researcher, and visiting scholar of AI policy at the Mercatus Center (alongside Tyler Cowen).

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10 Mobile App Trends for 2025

Userpilot

Mobile apps are evolving fast, but whats changing even faster is what users expect from them. People dont just want fast performance or flashy features. They want apps that understand them, personalize their journey, and grow with their needs. At Userpilot, we help teams meet those expectations with better onboarding, in-app guidance, and personalized engagement.

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The Three Challenges That Shape Every PM’s Growth

The Product Guy

Most PMs struggle with three things at some point. Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure. In this Patreon-exclusive article , part of our Roadmap to Mastery series, we explore: Why these challenges are difficult even for seasoned PMs Practical frameworks to approach them with confidence A case study where structured pla

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How Bain & Company adapted its product strategy for AI: Kasia Mrowca (Director of Product) — Product Unplugged

Mind the Product

In this episode of Product Unplugged, host Mike Belsito speaks with Kasia Mrowca, Director of Product at Bain & Company about navigating the chaosand opportunitythat comes with emerging technologies like AI. Kasia shares how her team made a bold pivot to integrate AI into their product roadmap after it was already signed off and budgeted, Read more » The post How Bain & Company adapted its product strategy for AI: Kasia Mrowca (Director of Product) Product Unplugged appeared first o

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Scale Conversion Rate Optimization with One Connected Platform

Amplitude

Learn how Amplitude Web Experimentations newest releases unlock more flexibility for no-code A/B tests and empower growth teams to drive faster impact.

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A designer’s guide to AI: Building in Cursor (instead of Figma) lets you prototype 10x faster, simplifies collaboration, and accelerates getting ideas out of your head | Joel Unger

Lenny Rachitsky

Watch or listen now: YouTube // Spotify // Apple Brought to you by: Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want WorkOS —Make your app enterprise-ready today Joel Unger , design director at Atlassian, shares how AI is transforming the way he designs Trello and other products. He walks through real-world workflows using tools like Midjourney and Cursor to prototype complex interactions, re-create brand assets, and explore creative directions faster than ever.

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How to Create a Frictionless Mobile App Onboarding Flow

Userpilot

For me, effective mobile app onboarding is the difference between new users looking around our app and disappearing right after, or understanding our app value and becoming engaged users. This is crucial as data reveals that the average mobile app loses 77% of users within its first 3 days, and about 90% within the first 30. Such is the cruel world of mobile app management.

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5 Ways Product Roadmap Software Improves Demand Management for Heavy Industrial Equipment Manufacturers

Gocious Blog

Successful manufacturers stay ahead of the market by delivering what their customers want before they even ask for it. How do they do it? They listen to their customers, collect valuable insights, and integrate these signals into their product roadmaps. This knowledge allows companies to innovate with confidence, guided by real-time insights.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Netflix introduces major TV product redesign

Mind the Product

For the first time in 12 years, global streaming giant Netflix has launched a brand new TV digital experience for its 300 million users. According to Netflix, “All the updates are designed to make choosing easier because decision fatigue is real.” The new features include: Mobile users will also expect to see updates, as Netflix Read more » The post Netflix introduces major TV product redesign appeared first on Mind the Product.

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6 Essential Portfolio Visibility Areas for High-Impact Product Organizations

Dragonboat

Learn how portfolio visibility empowers product teams with real-time insights to align strategy, optimize investments, and achieve impactful outcomes. The post 6 Essential Portfolio Visibility Areas for High-Impact Product Organizations appeared first on Dragonboat.

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How custom GPTs can make you a better manager | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product at Whoop)

Lenny Rachitsky

Watch or listen now: YouTube // Spotify // Apple Brought to you by: Orkes —The enterprise platform for reliable applications and agentic workflows Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security Hilary Gridley , Head of Core Product at Whoop, shares how she uses dozens of custom GPTs for her team that think and give feedback like her, allowing her to scale herself up and create time for higher-value work.

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8 Practical App Retention Strategies with Examples

Userpilot

Most advice on app retention strategies out there is copy-paste fluff. Youll hear the same generic list: improve onboarding, send push notifications, or show in-app messages. Cool! But how do you actually do that in a way that makes people stick around? When I started digging into the retention strategies of successful mobile apps, I noticed a pattern.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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A New Approach for Defining the Product Manager Role

BrainMates

A New Approach for Defining the Product Manager Role By JANA PAULECH The problem of product manager role clarity is (almost) as old as the title of product manager. Yet, it still remains the most common complaint amongst the product teams that we speak to daily. What are our product managers expected to do and (just as importantly) not do? The answer to this question changes not just across organisations, industries and geographies, but can also be inconsistent for two product managers within on

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Sunday Rewind: Storytelling: Don’t convince; Inspire by Petra Wille

Mind the Product

This weeks Sunday Rewind is a 2023 ProductTank Perth talk by coach and author Petra Wille, in which she highlights the importance of storytelling and actionable strategies to present stories to keep your audience engaged and involved. Petra starts by emphasising the importance of storytelling – its used as a tool to engage and entertain Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: Storytelling: Dont convince; Inspire by Petra Wille appeared first on Mind the Product.

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MDE: The Essential Ally for Your A/B Tests

AB Tasty

In CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization), a common dilemma is not knowing what to do with a test that shows a small and non-significant gain. Should we declare it a “loser” and move on? Or should we collect more data in the hope that it will reach the set significance threshold? Unfortunately, we often make the wrong choice, influenced by what is called the “sunk cost fallacy.” We have already put so much energy into creating this test and waited so long for the results that

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