The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

And in 2025, that definition is looking a lot more hybrid. And when budgets are tight, leaderships not going to hire three different people when they can find one PM who can wear multiple hats. Its something more foundational: how we define what makes a great Product Manager. A whopping 98% of new PM openings are for experienced hires.

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Modus Create

JULY 8, 2025

In this blog, I break down the key value drivers, share practical examples, and explain the leadership mindset needed to capture AI’s potential for your product teams. Because the product development landscape is changing quickly, the definition of AI-assisted product development is always shifting as well.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 26, 2025

The definition of success is absent. If every idea has high ROI, and we’re capacity constrained, what will leadership do? This is definitely not happening. In agile, the ‘focus on finishing, not on starting’ principle increases the value of whatever is being built by doing this. It does not exist.

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Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

Learn about delta testing Resources By Type  Blog  Ebooks & Guides  Events & Webinars  Case Studies  Podcast  Community Featured Content The Definitive Guide to Delta Testing What is delta testing and how are tech leaders using it to deliver customer insights throughout agile development?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context. More Articles by Roman Product Leadership in Scrum Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters Product Manager vs. Product Owner. Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance. That’s the job of the Scrum Master or agile coach.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. But on day one of the program kickoff, I already began to re-assess my initial definition! It is a statement that will become part of my refined definition of a Product Manager. Your followers choose you.”

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. Clearly, this definition reflects my values. In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. Focus on job satisfaction. Increase self-esteem. My delivery.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Leadership is frequently involved in lower-level discussions or asks for ad-hoc reports. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility. It is a map.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. To get the roles definition right, start by identifying the company’s products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07]

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? We’ll share our definitions. (If Agile Transformation. You Keep Using Those Words….

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A Working Definition of Innovation Filling the Idea Funnel Think of innovation in product management as filling a funnel with high-quality ideas. Jerry is also experienced in guiding teams through various digital transformations and agile processes.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 13, 2020

The best leadership qualities and skills need to be developed over time. Learn from some of the best leadership examples to accelerate your career growth. True leaders start exhibiting leadership traits even before people officially start reporting into them. Leadership Qualities. Learn how to become a Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big. Third, they can be tested.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Working with agility requires a continual cycle of collaboration, delivery, reflection, and improvement. Value Proposition. This was daunting at first. Product Lifecycle.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. From that success, I was then officially asked to move into the product role by the product leadership, and I have not looked back since then. Anyone can learn agile product development , basics of software design and development lifecycle, etc.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Supporting their development, helping them to think and act as agile and product champions. I also defined a vision: Agile product management culture is the norm and is adding measurable value to Parkinson’s UK.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Snitch, the Whip, the Bookkeeper, the Six Sigma Black Belt™ Like a job ad for a Scrum Master position, the equivalent for the Product Owner position also reveals excellent insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers.

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Clever PM

AUGUST 2, 2017

We live in a day and age where there’s a ton of information and mis-information out there about pretty much every topic imaginable, and Agile development is certainly not immune to this phenomenon.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Is management even the right word, or is it more kind of a Product Leadership? Also this is not what most Product Managers do!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. Roman Pichler - Medium Rich Mironov Rich’s content is primarily focussed on product leadership and how to set up your teams to be successful. Don’t believe me?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Design, UX, Agile Have Already Done the Hard Work. The design, user experience, and agile communities have all evolved from a role and a skillset to something bigger. Being agile is now also something not just a handful of developers can be, but a state that every organisation and team aspires to be.

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Clever PM

JULY 20, 2017

We tend to take the fact that agility is important as a given, when the reality is that not everyone in the business world has reached the same conclusion. Thus, it’s important sometimes to take a step back and examine why agility actually matters, so that when we’re faced with people who aren’t as convinced as […].

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 27, 2021

Definitely a win-win. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #6: Give Credit as Often as Possible appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. When senior management told my boss what a great job my boss did, she explained my role. Give Credit. Give credit as often as possible.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Jeff sat down with our hosts for a rare in-person conversation during Scotland’s Turing Festival to chat about effecting change, focusing on outcomes, using lean and agile principles in his own life, and the value of training. And the production of the system is not the definition of success any more. Quote of the Episode.

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svpg

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Leadership. That’s pretty much the definition of a mercenary. For example, a few people have asked me about SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). In contrast, the Spotify model of scaling Agile is much more in line with what I advocate, and I would argue theirs is predicated on the missionary model. So how do you change?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Narrow your definitions. Pick one project or one set of stories where you’ll use the language of agile. With my co-author Jeff Gothelf, I wrote a book called Lean UX , which was a book about how product teams can work together in a more agile way. Narrow your definitions. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. This is because product leadership is genuinely hard and quite distinct from the job of product manager – something that is often misunderstood. What is your role? Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. What are we fighting for?—?is

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. The Agile crowd has been telling us this for years. Let’s start with a definition. So back to our definition. The desired outcome should be set by a two-way negotiation between leadership and the product team.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Before prioritizing, get commitment from leadership. Scrum and Agile say that product managers are sitting next to developers all day, but somehow also have to be aware of what’s going on in the market. We need a product management degree and a professional definition of product management. feasible for the business. *

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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