The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Poor stakeholder management is one of the leading causes of failed product launches, often leading to misalignment, unexpected delays, and increased costs.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

In this blog post, well break down each key theme of the report and explore its implications not just in raw numbers, but in terms of strategy, maturity, and the evolving value of UX and product research. While many teams have trimmed headcount or pulled back on growth marketing, user research appears to be bucking the trend.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gartner estimates that through 2025, at least 30% of generative AI projects will fail after PoC due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, or unclear business value. Greater resource demands: Developing, training, and scaling AI systems can stretch budgets and overwhelm teams.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

In this blog, you’ll learn: What brand health tracking is and why it’s essential for modern brands The key metrics that reveal brand awareness, loyalty, and competitive positioning Best practices for consistent, high-quality tracking and reporting A phased approach to launching and optimizing your tracking program Let’s break it down.

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BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

They require a symphony of teams — Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Support — working together from idea to launch. This blog unpacks how product leaders can drive better collaboration by creating shared clarity, building transparent workflows, and being the empathetic glue between teams. The challenge?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2025

Many product teams focus on new customer acquisition but ignore the cost of losing customers they’ve already paid to acquire. My team consistently maintains a net retention rate above 99% by focusing on product engagement and user segmentation. Customer churn happens for two main reasons : voluntary and involuntary.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development. Finally, Typeform integrates seamlessly with various platforms, which enables teams to organize feedback and streamline data transfer across tools. Maze Type : User testing tool.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. McKinsey has estimated that AI technology could generate $60 billion to $110 billion per year in economic value for the pharma and medical-product subsectors alone.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2025

My team at Userpilot has helped countless product teams enhance their mobile UX without compromising performance. In this blog, Ill break down five mobile app optimization strategies that will help you. Small inefficiencies, whether a slow startup time, unclear navigation, or poor caching, can lead to user drop-off.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” This ensures that the product not only addresses real user problems but also aligns with business goals.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Many product teams know this feeling: mobile user retention is dropping, even after big updates and splashy feature releases. Complex onboarding: 74% of users abandon an app after a poor onboarding experience. Poor UX: If your app is difficult to navigate or lacks a clear layout, users wont hesitate to abandon it.

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Productside

APRIL 30, 2025

Entire teams, downsized. Schedule standing chats with customer-facing teams. Not only will this reduce riskitll make your team faster in the long run. Your product isnt just the software your team is building. Product roles are being cut. Lets set the record straight. If that feels unmanageable, start smaller.

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Product Talk

MARCH 12, 2025

Sometimes youre early in your discovery journey and youre still developing your understanding of the opportunity space. He realized that his regular customer interviews provided him with plenty of promising opportunities that werent related to the outcome his team was focused on at the time and he wondered what to do with them.

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UX Planet

JULY 1, 2025

Keep an eye out for a future blog post) While words are what we do, we need to think of content design as more than just the words we see. Good content design requires user research, data analysis, and collaboration with designers and developers. And your users will only notice bad content when it’s bad. But that’s wrong.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. Having an opinion about your product is important—otherwise, you’re not going to have a product—but you shouldn’t model your product off you, or your team, or even your early customers. You do this through testing.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The latest tactic you read about in a flavor-of-the-week blog post may have worked for someone —but it isn’t necessarily going to work for you. It could also be bad. This is no longer a situation where you can say, “Hmm, could be good—could be bad.”. That’s an idea that sounds like it could be good.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Because the other part is standing up and talking to the team. You’ve got some of the basics in place and it’s time to sit down with the team. Evan: Everything.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals. Step 1: Understand the strengths and weaknesses in your product management skill set. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 8, 2021

How product managers can get their teams on the same page. Effective product managers are good communicators and can get team members aligned to meet the objectives of a product. 2:30] Why do some teams underperform? Teams underperform when members work around each other and not with each other.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Now there are more and more resources, like blogs, books, online courses and even training programs for Product Management. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall? Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We started a blog section to write long posts about featured businesses. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Agile is sometimes seen as a panacea to all product development problems.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

A blog could aggressively demand shares on social media before people have even had a chance to read through an article. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. Three tactics help your team navigate these situations. Asking the wrong users for input.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Encourage teams to start with outcomes—business and user/customer benefits—rather than outputs—features and deliverables. What are the business goals?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” .” But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

What it is: Asana is a versatile task management solution that allows you to manage both personal and team projects. What it does well: With a slogan like “Teamwork without email,” Asana is just that, a good collaboration tool for your team that is intended to reduce the number of back and forth emails about what needs to be done and when.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. 6:10] Tell us more about processes to help our teams succeed.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Theyre problem-solvers. Zero In on the Problem.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses , the community , or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

That’s the magic of product development! Understand Their Individual Strengths and Weaknesses Design encompasses more than one thing. it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad designer. It just means that you’ll need to work around their strengths and weaknesses.

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Product Talk

APRIL 6, 2022

A lot of teams conflate two concepts. A lot of teams conflate the concepts of research questions, which is what you’re trying to learn, and interview questions, which is what you’re going to ask to learn that. Continuing with the Netflix example, your team might be tasked with finding new market opportunities (e.g.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. The right product metrics give us a read on the health of our product, help us identify strengths and weaknesses, track improvement over time, diagnose problems, etc.

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