The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

If youve been in product long enough to remember when PM = glue was considered profound advice, buckle up. The role of the Hybrid Product Manager is taking center stage in 2025. The product management world is being reshaped, and its not just because of AI or remote work or whatever new frameworks trending on LinkedIn this week.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Thats why Ive curated a list of three top product manager openings at data-driven companies, along with standout candidates who are ready to make an impact. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in data-driven product management ?

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BrainMates

JULY 9, 2025

The ability to influence stakeholders is a critical part of effective product strategy consulting, ensuring strategy is executed and outcomes are achieved. In product management, strategy alone isn’t enough. If they see a roadmap that looks expensive without clear financial outcomes, they will question its value.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

You, the product manager, feel like youre sinking in quicksand. Product management isnt just about building great productsits about keeping teams aligned and optimizing product decisions to avoid delays and ship faster. What Is Decision Flow in Product Management? Sound familiar? Why does it matter?

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Centercode

JUNE 11, 2025

Blog Ebooks &Â Guides Events & Webinars Case Studies Podcast Community Sign in Get started for free Test Closure How to Present Customer Insights to Product Managers, Engineers, and Executives Posted on June 11, 2025 Austin Meyer You ran a solid test. Product managers focus on user friction and patterns.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting mobile product manager roles and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in mobile product management?

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

Conversely, where budgets are dictated by product, marketing, or executive leadership without direct consultation, teams often feel constrained. Still, product and design leaders also play a role, especially in cross-functional teams. These projects often focus on emerging user needs, innovation themes, or future roadmaps.

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AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

He previously spent over eight years at Booking.com, where he held roles as a product manager, data scientist, and ultimately Director of Experimentation. He also consults with companies to help them launch and accelerate their experimentation efforts. Remember the first three syllables of personalization,” he says.

User Testing

UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

According to the Futurice Customer Survey (2024), a leading digital innovation consultancy, 70% of respondents said they were likely or very likely to switch providers for a more reliable mobile app. Resource Allocation: Budget for UX improvements not as an afterthought but as a core part of your digital transformation roadmap.

Finance

Userpilot

JUNE 5, 2025

As a product manager at Userpilot, I’ve had the chance (and let’s be honest, responsibility) to try out major onboarding automation tools in this space. It’s built not just for onboarding, but as a full Software Experience Management platform. Meaning you don’t need multiple tools to manage the user onboarding process.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

So, what can a newly liberated product design generalist do with all that reclaimed time? I could write one more story about stepping beyond product design into roles like product management, service design (or CX), or even bigger leaps into academia, research, design for government, or, who knows, politics. (If

User Testing

Productside

MAY 29, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Operations Helps Teams Move Faster (Without Burnout) Growth is great. More products. If your organization has ever said, We need product ops, odds are youre already in the weeds. Growth reveals cracks in your product organization.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. Because things change.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The Product Management Awards (#TPMAS) are the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. The Best Product Person & The Best Product Leader. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. The art and science of product management. Owning your product vision.

Vision

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products.

User Testing

The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

1password.com) Strikingly- Public Forum, Idea Forum , where customers request and vote on features Public Roadmap (ie Slack , bitsian ) . Product management comes down to discipline and process. Are things that we are learning finding their way into the roadmap? How do you manage their expectations? .

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

User Testing

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

Roadmap

Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Let’s be real: product management can be challenging. Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, and endless other activities, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle, bustle, and stress that is product management.

Product Management

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Lessons learned from a product manager’s experiences at Google and YouTube. Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. I want to explore experiences that help you be a better product professional.

Customer Experience

Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

How product managers can understand and solve their customers’ problems. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:16]

Product Management

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 2, 2021

How product managers can gain influence, solve problems, and propel their organizations to success. What would you do if you were the first product hire in a rapidly growing company? Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:34] I treated the position as a consultancy role.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

I use the exact same methods that I teach to product trios to run my own business. And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. Product Talk’s Desired Outcome. Opportunity. “I

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

In this episode you’ll learn about some of the big ideas in product management to help you make the move to product master, specifically: The difference between building the product right vs. building the right product, Challenges of working with development teams, How to assemble a roadmap, Release planning, and.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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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.

Product Research

Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

One of the reasons I’m so passionate about product management is because I believe good product practice significantly underpins happiness in organisations. This is, of course, a subjective observation which comes from interacting with many organisations as a product consultant.

Product Management

Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 19, 2018

Cutting through role confusion to create successful products. My mission is to inspire and equip product managers to have greater influence in their organizations and over product. I call this helping product managers to become product masters, and that is what both this podcast and the training I provide are about.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 19, 2020

How product managers can create product names that make people smile. Not many product managers get involved in naming products, and that is a mistake. You can be a great brainstorming resource to help Marketing or a naming consulting. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:59]

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