Product Innovation Educators
JANUARY 20, 2025
How product managers can make OKRs drive real results Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Ben Lamorte, the world’s most experienced OKR coach and founder of OKRs.com, we explored how product managers and leaders can transform their approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Ben shared insights about why many OKR implementations fail and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 20, 2025
Chinese-owned social media apps have had a whirlwind few days. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that TikTok should be banned for users in the United States due to security concerns. It stated that the now delayed ban is designed to prevent China – a designated foreign adversary – from leveraging its control over ByteDance Read more » The post TikTok ban and reversal impacts 170 million American users appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 19, 2025
Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Sinch —Build messaging, email, and calling into your product • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators.
Gocious Blog
JANUARY 21, 2025
Sustainability is not a new term in business by any means. Still, it is a concept that continues to make waves across industries. For product manufacturing industry , sustainability refers to both the products and the operations. For example, manufacturing companies can focus on conserving energy and natural resources and prioritize social and economic responsibility to support sustainable manufacturing initiatives.
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
UX Planet
JANUARY 22, 2025
As product designers, we regularly work with icons in our design process. The most common and popular way to incorporate icons is by using icon libraries. These librarieswhether available as Figma plugins, standalone downloads, or custom icon setsserve the same primary purpose: they typically provide icons in the form of PNG or SVGfiles. While this approach has been widely adopted, Googles Material Symbols and Apples SF Symbols have recently introduced a new method of delivering icons: through f
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People-First Product Leadership
JANUARY 21, 2025
In this article, which originally appeared in Mind the Product , I share 5 strategies to master product leadership in 2025. As I clipped in for a recent Peloton ride, I realized that balancing resistance, cadence, and output on a bike mirrors leading a product team today. People-First Leadership is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Product Culture
JANUARY 22, 2025
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Userpilot
JANUARY 20, 2025
Software bugs are a budget killer for your company and a buzzkill for your users. Even with a rigorous software testing process, one pesky bug always slips through. In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. A single bug resulted in losses worth 100,000, pushing many small businesses to bankruptcy. The real challenge here is spotting these critical bugs, reproducing them accurately, and effectively communicating the fix across departments.
Nir Eyal
JANUARY 20, 2025
My wife and I started our first business together in 2003. We sold solar panels in Long Island, New York, which meant making thousands of in-home sales calls. Before we entered a potential customers home, we had a little ritual. We always looked at each other before we opened our car doors and said, Lets go sell a solar system. The post The Surprisingly Strong Case for Luck in Sales appeared first on Nir and Far.
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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
Mind the Product
JANUARY 21, 2025
The success of a product hinges not just on its features or technological prowess but significantly on how its positioned in the market. This truth, often overshadowed by the allure of innovation and design, is the linchpin in determining whether a product soars in popularity or dwindles into obscurity. Enter product positioning a concept Read more » The post Deep dive: How to position your product appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Guy
JANUARY 24, 2025
In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Harpal Singh explains his approach to managing product processes by emphasizing principles over rigid methods. He discusses how prioritizing customer insights, collaboration, and data helps unlock better results for teams. Harpal shares examples of how companies can break free from overly linear or rigid processes and focus on real business outcomes.
Productside
JANUARY 21, 2025
Pricing is a strategy. In this episode, Rina Alexin sits down with Peter Moot, Co-founder of Promi and former Lead PM at Uber, to uncover how product managers can use pricing to deliver more value and drive long-term success. Learn about personalized pricing, AI-driven strategies, and how to avoid the biggest pricing mistakes that product leaders make.
Roman Pichler
JANUARY 20, 2025
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Like any system, it is a collection of interconnecting parts that function as a whole. To put it differently, an effective product strategy approach must involve the right people, use the right processes, apply the right tools, and follow helpful principles.
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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.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 22, 2025
Burnout is a silent adversary that many of us face. This week, we’re joined by Evie Brockwell, a seasoned product consultant and coach who has faced this challenge head-on during her time at Booking.com. We unpack why burnout is alarmingly prevalent among product professionals and explore practical strategies for prevention and recovery, emphasising the importance Read more » The post Misconceptions about burnout in product management – Evie Brockwell (Product Leadership Coach)
Product Management University
JANUARY 22, 2025
If you want to make your products easier to buy, they have to be easier to sell. The most common mistake product marketers make with product positioning is they do it without regard for their salesforces ability to deliver it. Making products easier for the salesforce to sell is the single biggest thing product marketers can do to improve sales of their products.
Productside
JANUARY 21, 2025
A great product is just the starting point. The real game-changer? A Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy that drives alignment, adapts to shifting market dynamics, and delivers long-term results. Our recent webinar revealed a common truth: many organizations struggle with GTM execution. 44% of attendees identified validating product-market fit as their biggest challenge, while 65% admitted their.
UX Planet
JANUARY 18, 2025
Imagine this: Youve just aced your interviews, and the company seems like a dream fit. But as you open the offer letter, something doesnt sit right. The words are there, but the clarity isnt. This is where things can gosouth. As a designer, your career thrives on creativity and precisionbut your offer letter? It sets the stage for how your work will be valued.
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 23, 2025
Stockholm-based startup Loveable AI has launched a new feature that transforms Figma prototypes into fully functional apps, in partnership with Builder.io. This integration allows designers to bypass developers and independently create application or websites, taking control of both the creative and technical aspects. Founded in 2023, the app Lovable allows users to build websites from Read more » The post Figma and Loveable team up to increase no-code MVPs appeared first on Mind the Produc
Generation Focus
JANUARY 24, 2025
In the rapidly evolving world of User Experience (UX) research, one element often goes unnoticed but is absolutely critical: recruitment. While UX research focuses on uncovering insights to improve user experiences, recruitment ensures that these insights are grounded in high-quality data. Participant recruitment is not just a logistical taskits the foundation of reliable and actionable research outcomes.
Userpilot
JANUARY 19, 2025
If you really want to build a product your users love, removing user friction entirely is not the answer. If friction points were universally bad, no product would have security checks, confirmation dialogs, or multi-step workflows. Such critical steps prevent users from making irreversible decisions. The goal isnt to eliminate all friction. Instead, it is to identify the right and wrong types of friction and remove the bad friction to create a holistic user onboarding journey.
UX Planet
JANUARY 18, 2025
Photo by Stella Ribeiro on Unsplash Introduction Were currently in the midst of a significant restructuring project for Bime Bazar. Our goal is to create a more user-friendly and efficient application. This is an ongoing challenge, as were working within tight deadlines and with limited resources. Were also navigating the complexities of making these changes while the application remains operational.
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.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 19, 2025
This weeks Sunday Rewind is a 2021 #mtpengage Hamburg keynote talk from then Hotjar VP of Product Megan Murphy on how she communicates and enforces Hotjars product strategy in her day-to-day work. Her key points are as follows: Megan says she spends about 50% of her time at Hotjar working on internal communications. Megan finishes Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: Beating the drum of your product strategy tune by Megan Murphy appeared first on Mind the Product.
Business of Software Conference
JANUARY 24, 2025
In just two months, the best conference for software CEOs and senior leaders is happening in Churchill College, Cambridge, UK – BoS Europe. Why the best? Because its not your typical conference. There are no lobby exhibits, no velvet-rope VIP sections for speakers, and no pay-to-play sponsor slots disguised as keynotes. Instead, BoS Europe is all about handpicked speakers tackling the real challenges software leaders face.
The Product Manager Coach Blog
JANUARY 21, 2025
Imagine this: Its your first day as a product manager at a new company. You sit at your desk, open your laptop, and are immediately greeted with a flood of Slack messages. Your manager wants a roadmap update, engineering has questions about priorities, and stakeholders are asking about timelines. Its Day 1, and the weight of the role hits you. Youve been hired to bring clarity, strategy, and impactbut where do you start?
UX Planet
JANUARY 22, 2025
Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. As a part of my curriculum at Pratt Institute , I worked with Civian to analyze & solve for usability issues on their platform.
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
Mind the Product
JANUARY 23, 2025
A well-crafted product strategy lies at the heart of every successful product. History is littered with products that failed because of misconceptions and mistakes in their strategy. Such misconceptions lead to flawed decisions, wasted resources and missed opportunities – and nobody wants that. There are lots of definitions of product strategy, but fundamentally they all Read more » The post Product strategy pitfalls (and how to avoid them) appeared first on Mind the Product.
Reveal
JANUARY 20, 2025
Reveal Embedded Analytics Introduction to Embedded Analytics in Angular and.NET Core Embedded analytics is no longer an optional featureits a necessity for modern applications. In 2025, users demand seamless access to real-time insights directly within the tools they use daily. By integrating embedded analytics into Angular applications with a.NET Core backend, businesses can elevate their products with data-driven decision-making capabilities that drive engagement and ROI.
Userpilot
JANUARY 19, 2025
I have been using standalone session replay tools for quite a long time. And while theyre great, hear me out. They record and replay user sessions to help product managers like myself identify issues and understand how people interact with their products. At first, this seemed like a smart investment for my company, so I invested. I watched session recordings, analyzed user behavior, and tried to understand it all.
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