The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. This month’s TPG Live session tackled these pivotal challenges head-on. With actionable insights from our expert panel and thought-provoking audience questions, this session was packed with takeaways for product professionals at every level.

Customer Experience

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Dimitris Sotiriou, Director of Product Management at Twilio, shares his top tip and practices for maintaining a healthy backlog. [link] “How I PM” is a series where product managers, of all levels and experiences, share tips and tricks on their approach to product management. Stay tuned for more episodes and subscribe to the The Product Way channel to get notified of upcoming releases.

Product Management

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 13, 2024

AI is no longer just a buzzword—it’s rapidly transforming the way we manage products. If you’re not adapting, you’re already falling behind. In our recent TPG Live roundtable, we dove deep into the future of product management, from leveraging AI for smarter decision-making to tackling the roadblocks that hold teams back. If you’re serious about staying ahead in product management, this session is a must-watch.

Product Management

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

Agile

The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. These practices are promoted as essential for success. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

You think you’re doing everything right. Your team is following the roadmap. You’re gathering customer feedback, hitting your OKRs, and tracking every metric imaginable. And yet, your product is stuck. Users churn, innovation stalls, and your team feels like theyre running on a never-ending treadmill. Heres the uncomfortable truth: these very practicesroadmaps, obsessive customer listening, and metrics worshipare strangling your products potential.

Customer Feedback

The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Being a product manager often feels like solving a puzzle without all the pieces. From aligning stakeholders to prioritizing features, the challenges are endless—and so are the opportunities for growth. Here are three actionable strategies to tackle some of the biggest hurdles product managers face today. 1. Move From Tasks to Outcomes It’s easy to get caught up in day-to-day tasks, but the best product managers stay laser-focused on outcomes.

Product Management

The Product Guy

JULY 19, 2025

Uncertainty is not the exception anymore. It is the environment. The strongest product leaders are not frozen by ambiguity. They build systems for curiosity, flexible planning, and continuous learning that help their teams thrive even when the path ahead is unclear. In July’s TPG Live roundtable, we brought together product leaders who have guided teams through acquisitions, scaled research-driven cultures, and launched in volatile markets.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 16, 2025

Product managers are now expected to be not only customer-obsessed but also data-fluent. In this episode, Jenna Gaudio shares essential insights on how modern PMs must evolve their skillsets to handle massive data flows, navigate regulations, and responsibly craft intelligent product experiences. What You’ll Learn: Data Management as a Core Skill : Why today’s product managers must master not just data access but interpretation, regulation, and ethical usage Avoiding Data Pitfalls : How ch

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

JULY 1, 2025

Building without validating wastes time. In this episode of How I PM, Michael Ionita, CEO of LFG Solutions and YouTuber, shares practical ways to test your product ideas before writing any real code. Michael’s Four Keys to Testing Before You Build: Run Painted Door Experiments Present a clickable version of a future feature. If users engage, follow up with questions.

User Testing

The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Drew Falkman, Principal at Moves the Needle, shares his diverse background in product management, from founding a web agency in the dot-com boom to consulting for companies like HP and Adobe. Drew discusses his passion for ideation, his transition to remote product management, and how he now helps organizations fine-tune their product strategy.

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

AUGUST 11, 2025

Building the right product starts before design or development. It begins with consensus, aligning customers and internal teams around a shared goal. In this episode of How I PM, Patrick Hoffman, building products at Meta, shares how early alignment creates momentum and shared ownership. Consensus starts with customers. Understand the needs of different segments and focus where you can have the most impact.

Product Research

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2025

Most mentorship fails before it even begins. Product managers show up with problems, mentors show up with solutions, and both walk away unchanged. In this candid conversation, Harpal Singh, CPO-in-Residence at Rothschild & Co, shares how he broke that pattern and built a mentorship model that actually works. This is not about giving better advice.

Leadership

The Product Guy

JULY 7, 2025

Building without validating wastes time. In this episode of How I PM, Michael Ionita, CEO of LFG Solutions and YouTuber, shares practical ways to test your product ideas before writing any real code. If your roadmap is just a list of features and delivery dates, you’re missing the point. In this episode of How I PM, Joni Hoadley, product management coach and consultant, shares how to turn your roadmap into a strategic leadership tool.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

JUNE 24, 2025

Product managers are often praised for high standards, but what happens when those standards cause more harm than good? In this episode, Harpal Singh reflects on the tough leadership lessons he’s learned, from navigating hiring bias to managing across cultures and growth stages. What You’ll Learn: Leadership Biases : How good intentions can create unnecessary pressure Team Culture : Why the best PMs learn to listen, adapt, and own the outcome Hiring Smarter : Moving beyond instinct to stru

Leadership

The Product Guy

JUNE 12, 2025

Saying yes is easy. Saying no is what separates strategic product leaders from the rest. In this Roadmap to Mastery article from The Product Way Patreon , we focus on one of the most essential, high-stakes skills in product management: knowing when and how to say no — and making that decision stick. Inside the article: Why “no” is often the right answer, but rarely the comfortable one Five failure patterns that emerge when PMs avoid conflict and overcommit A practical framework for turning “no”

Leadership

The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

John Kresse, Senior Director of Product Management at SoulCycle and a former college basketball player at Emory shares a simple but powerful way to combat overconfidence and make better product decisions. 3 Key Questions to Challenge Assumptions & De-Risk Your Roadmap: 1. How confident are you in the projected impact? Assign a confidence percentage to ROI estimates. 2.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I’ve never felt compelled to write a rebuttal before, but Amanda Hoover’s recent article, “ Product managers rule Silicon Valley. Not everyone is happy about it ,” misses the mark on what product management truly entails. As someone who has spent decades in this field, I’ve seen firsthand how product managers are often misunderstood and misrepresented—and this article perpetuates many of those misconceptions.

Weak Development Team

The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Jenna Gaudio shares the traits that have helped her succeed as a product manager. She emphasizes the importance of being curious, vulnerable, and open to learning, even without a technical background. Jenna discusses how being authentic and collaborative with developers has made her a more effective leader.

Product Management

The Product Guy

AUGUST 6, 2025

The best PMs I know aren’t struggling with skills. They’re struggling with access. After years of quietly helping product people land roles through personal introductions, I decided to see if there was a way I could help even more. That’s why, for years, I’ve helped product people quietly land new roles through personal introductions. From early-career PMs to VPs and CPOs, one conversation at a time.

Leadership

The Product Guy

JULY 25, 2025

When stepping into a new product team, it’s easy to fall into the trap of proving yourself by owning everything , including responsibilities that shouldn’t fall on you. In this episode, David Clements reflects on the pressure to deliver quickly, the tension between product and project roles, and the subtle art of staying focused on what actually moves the product forward.

Strategy

The Product Guy

JULY 25, 2025

In this episode of How I PM, Aniket Malvankar, Head of Product (IoT) at Vantiva and Founder of Product Bricks, shares an important reminder for every product manager: support your team, but do not silently cover for broken systems. Product managers often jump into customer service, QA, or internal support. That flexibility is part of the job, but it should not become the default.

Leadership

The Product Guy

JUNE 17, 2025

This month’s roundtable brought together a powerhouse panel to explore one of the biggest challenges in product careers today: How do you grow, scale, and stay effective across radically different company environments? Before we dive into the highlights… Want the full, enhanced recap with strategy tools you can use right now? You can get access to all of it on The Product Way Patreon plus weekly content including: product frameworks, case studies, deep dives, and more!

Analytic Tools

The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

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.

Product Research

The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles? Our roundtable featured experienced voices from product strategy, B2B SaaS, and startup innovation: Jordan Bergtraum – Head of Product, B2B SaaS consultant Kelvin Wilson – Founder & CTO, OD Sense Drew Falkman – Prod

Customer Feedback

The Product Guy

APRIL 5, 2025

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Jenna Gaudio highlights the importance of communication in product management. She explains how understanding different communication languages and emotional cues helps product managers influence decisions and gain team alignment. Jenna emphasizes that product managers must effectively convey the value and impact of solutions to ensure consensus across teams.

Product Management

The Product Guy

APRIL 1, 2025

How to Sustain Momentum as a Product Manager Tip from Shobhit Chugh, PM at Google Keeping your team motivated and aligned isnt just about deadlines and demosits about momentum. In this episode of How I PM, we hear from Shobhit Chugh, Product Manager at Google (and improv enthusiast ), who shares his top approach to building and sustaining momentum throughout the product development journey.

Leadership

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Jenna Gaudio shares her journey from being a detail-oriented perfectionist to learning the importance of prioritization in product management. She discusses the challenges of managing an ever-growing backlog and the value of focusing on current priorities rather than trying to complete every task.

Product Management

The Product Guy

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Jenna Gaudio explains how product managers can harness tension as a tool to get to the root of issues and keep teams focused on the right goals. She discusses the importance of maintaining balanceapplying pressure when necessary and resolving tension when it’s distracting the team.

Leadership

The Product Guy

AUGUST 12, 2025

Most roadmaps do not fail from bad ideas. They fail when hidden assumptions go untested and planning becomes guesswork. Product leaders today are expected to respond to shifting priorities, cross-functional pressures, and market instability without losing focus. That is why the second article in our Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact series turns to a core leadership challenge: strategy and planning.

Strategy

The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2025

Hiring a product manager is never just about skills. The right hire will fit your team’s goals, mindset, and way of working. In this episode, we look at one powerful interview question that goes beyond experience to uncover how a candidate thinks, decides, and adapts. This is not about catching someone off guard. It is about getting to the root of whether they can succeed in your environment and bring real value to your team.

Strategy

The Product Guy

JUNE 13, 2025

Product managers often talk about creating value, but few approach it with the clarity and conviction that Maya Brooks brings. In this episode, Maya breaks down the product philosophy that drives iFundWomen and how values like inclusion, community, and empowerment are embedded into every step of the product journey. What You’ll Learn: Designing for Goodwill : Why community-centered product strategy pays off Real-Time Feedback Loops : Using tight-knit Slack communities for continuous insigh

Leadership

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? At The Product Groups latest TPG Live , we tackled one of the biggest challenges in product management: Balancing long-term vision with shifting market demands Understanding why users adopt (or abandon) products Managing stakeholder expectations while staying focused on core strategy The full recap and ad-free video, including Patreon-exclusive structured frameworks and actionable strategies, is available on The Prod

Vision

The Product Guy

AUGUST 3, 2025

AI made product discovery fast, but not necessarily better. With interviews, tickets, reviews, and feedback synthesized in minutes, teams now face a new problem: more input, less clarity. This shift is exactly why we’re launching a new Roadmap to Mastery series on The Product Way: Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact A 4-part deep dive into where AI is changing the game, and where it might be quietly eroding your team’s product judgment.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 31, 2025

Sprint reviews are often underused. They become quick demos or status meetings, when in reality, they can be a strategic tool for alignment and team recognition. In this episode of How I PM, Sharon Allpress, VP of Strategic Engagements at EOT.AI, shares how to make them count. Sharon’s Three Keys to Better Sprint Reviews: Let developers run the demo Let the people who built the feature walk stakeholders through what they’ve accomplished.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

“We’re shipping faster, but I trust our decisions less.” That’s what one PM told me after their team rolled out AI across the product workflow. Their backlog was clearing. Tickets were closing. AI-generated ideas filled the roadmap. But no one was asking whether they should be building any of it. They were no longer short on speed, but they were starving for clarity.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 15, 2025

Every product leader I know is running fast. They’re shipping consistently. They’re hitting velocity targets. But under the surface, something is breaking. “We never miss a sprint. But we’re exhausted.” “I think I’m the one burning out.” I’ve heard these exact words in the past few weeks from PMs and product leaders I trust, respect, and once thought were invincible.

Roadmap