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. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? Roadmaps are innovations silent killer.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 10, 2019

The challenge of achieving product-market fit is what keeps most product managers up at night. And this time every year, product management professionals are putting yearly strategies together and seeking out resources to ensure their approach is on-trend. Mind the Product. Product People. Google I/O.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers often end up reporting to the CTO, and some will argue that this is a good thing. While this might have been the case in the early days of product management, it’s not anymore. Even five years ago, there was little by way of an established body of knowledge in product management.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software. How one customer differs from another.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

For the 50th episode of The Product Experience, we’re proud to have Chris Adams join us to talk about making your products more sustainable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath. Suggest a guest to us here.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

Product managers are rapidly advancing their skills, and as a result, the industry as a whole has had to level-up to compete as the world’s biggest brands continue to adopt a mobile-first approach. We’ve written a lot—and I mean A LOT—of content focused around mobile product management. What Is Mobile Product Management?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Start with building relationships.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Even though we can’t do it all ourselves, product managers are often the unsung heroes in the tech world. Here are 10 great ways to recognise the product managers in your team and show them some love this holiday season. The Product Management Books of the Year. Training and Conference Tickets.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

We’re beyond excited to be bringing our flagship conference #mtpcon – the world’s biggest and best product conference – to Singapore on March 25-26. All our conferences sell out so don’t miss out and grab your workshop tickets and conference tickets today! Workshop Presenters.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Product managers have a unique view on what’s happening across the business, provided the relationships are working well. Source: Martin Eriksson, Mind the Product. Source: Martin Eriksson, Mind the Product. I’ve experienced issues like this throughout my product management career.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What one product manager learned about understanding customers. Today we are talking about the journey from software developer to product manager and some key challenges encountered as a product manager. She is the VP of Product at Tel Aviv-based Lightrun. Customer interviews.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. Frequently-Asked Product Roadmapping Questions.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 29, 2023

If you want to be well connected and stay on top of your game, here are five free product management events in September 2023. August 30, 2023 | Virtual Greater Strategic Impact, Product CEO or Portfolio Executive? REGISTER September 21st | VIRTUAL The Forgotten Part of Roadmapping – It’s Taking You Nowhere Faster!

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2020

We surveyed thousands of professionals for our Product Managers in 2020 report. Most of the top challenges these professionals cited had to do with communication: “working with other departments,” “getting consensus on product direction,” “communicating product strategy,” etc. 5 Roadmap Best Practices for Remote Teams.

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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. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. A mature product has a lot going on at once.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? We’ve collected the best events for product folks that you can attend online or in-person. February Product Conferences. Product Con. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. The Planning Waterfall.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. How product managers negotiate like a pro. Product management is negotiation. How is your product team organized to contribute to future planning?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Once you get into a senior product manager role, one of your key responsibilities is to mentor and manage your junior product managers. It’s because I’m on a constant journey and still learning how to mentor and manage junior product managers.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The world doesn’t stand still: Markets and technologies change, competitors improve their products, and new market entrants may appear. Product management is therefore like riding a bike: When I am on my bike—which is one of my favourite pastime activities—I have to turn the cranks, change gears, steer the bike, and so on.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Despite all the political, social and ecological upheavals in 2019, it’s been a busy and successful year for Mind the Product, not to mention the evolving product management community we aim to support. For starters, we debuted not one but two new conferences – MTP Engage Manchester and #mtpcon Singapore.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2019

Building and sustaining a healthy team culture and communication is a large part of being a successful product manager. Video conference tools – Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, etc. Remember, product managers don’t typically directly manage anyone except other product managers.

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BrainMates

MAY 26, 2025

How to Conduct a Competitor Analysis: A Practical Guide for Product Managers By Adrienne Tan A competitor analysis is one of the essential activities you should undertake before launching a new product or business. Compare this analysis to your product strategy and positioning. Are we ahead, on par, or lagging?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. AlphaGo went on to win Game Two, and at the post-game press conference, Lee Sedol was in shock. ‘But today I am speechless.’

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2021

Good Product Managers make decisions based on the world as it is today. Great Product Managers make decisions based on how the world is going to be tomorrow. Design Dominance Spending your life at home means one thing for sure: We are spending more time interacting with digital products more than ever.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You’re a Product Manager or Product Owner or both, and you have a new opportunity to add an existing product to your arsenal. Someone has to take over her products or features. Handover from the current product manager Ask the questions You have the responsibility to ask the questions, to get the knowledge.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. I knew by the end of the first week that product management was the job I’d been looking for since graduating from college. 7 years ago, I started working at my first tech startup.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Now the Product Director at Symec, Lily also runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath. Experimentation.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Tickets for the main conference day are available now. . Pre-Conference Workshops. April 19th, the pre-conference day, will be all about improving your skills as well as laying the social foundation for an engaging conference day. Roadmapping (with C. Stakeholder Management (with Julia Whitney).

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. That puts a big weight on the shoulders of the product manager.

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