The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Why Your PM Brand Matters Your personal brand as a product manager is essentially how others perceive your skills, expertise, and leadership. Open doors to new opportunities, such as speaking engagements, leadership roles, or consulting work. How are you perceived by your leadership team and colleagues?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Atif brings valuable insights from a recent PDMA executive workshop where leaders discussed their real-world challenges with strategic decision making and innovation strategy. In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

His insights are grounded in decades of hands-on leadership across engineering, business development, and product strategyand his take on innovation is both practical and bold. Joeri emphasizes that data and intuition are not oppositestheyre collaborators. Data + context = better decisions. The best leaders blend both.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. Feature Engagement Users most frequently gravitated toward the map to explore and compare data.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

New research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to enterprises – are realizing the business value of personal, efficient customer engagement. Below, we take a deeper dive into the report’s key data and trends. But they’re facing big barriers.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

90% of executives say they prefer visual storytelling over dense reports. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Customers dont care about data structures. Share it with leadership. They care about impact.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Below is a preview of key insights. Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Create a self-initiated MVP even a simple landing page or automation tool.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Pro Tip: Pair your quick wins with data. A dashboard showing metrics like feature adoption or user engagement amplifies your credibility. Advanced Tactics: Stakeholder Mapping: Use tools like the Stakeholder Alignment Blueprint (available on jonihoadley.com) to identify key goals and concerns. Click here to download.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research. Only 17% experienced reductions. Lets unpack each.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Similarly, service designers are trained to navigate through complex systems of an environment/ situation by leveraging their system thinking capabilities. For instance, in the case of pension services, there might be financial advisors, pension administrators, and customer service agents involved. Let deep dive into 4 Ps.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. Anya’s development of Taelor offers valuable lessons in how to validate and expand upon initial product insights.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" 2019: "Do we have data to prove that is the right way to go?"

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. We started by asking, “Is your team currently using any of the following visuals?

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Show them the data they lack.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. BuildNest is a comprehensive wellness platform that offers physical, mental, and financial wellbeing tools to employees, while giving employers and healthcare providers a HIPAA-compliant, 360-degree view of health trends across large populations. Their tool of choice?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. During her tenure as a data scientist, Lisa built two predictive products. Lisa says, “We led with ‘What can we predict?’ Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. It’s about finding the tech stack that works for your team.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Even more startling, product managers reported spending 45% less time on strategy than theyd like in 2023. A 2022 Product Excellence Report revealed that only 36% of PMs are confident their products and features consistently meet customer expectations. Use this insight to refine your approach. Where did delays occur?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Through these insights, you’ll be better equipped to handle the pressures of managing up and leading your product toward success.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI affects workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership. As AI tools become more common, product leaders face new challenges in managing teams, fostering innovation, and maintaining a positive work environment.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2022

First-party data is the future of online engagement and customer experiences. This isn’t surprising given competitors such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla Firefox are cookieless by default – however there are already debates about how Google will collect and use data thereafter. What is first-party data?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 12, 2020

Multiple industries are suddenly forced to move operations online, and support teams are at the forefront of this transformation – battling every day to deliver excellent, fast customer service, while facing an unprecedented volume of enquiries and issues. Sophisticated reporting for valuable insights.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Today, with insights from over 8,200 of you (thank you to everyone who participated!), Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Subscribe now. vs. 16.9%).

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Are the right tools applied? First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Using analytics, one can capture actual behavior of customers, ask targeted questions, collect accurate feedback, and repeat the process with much less effort next time. Also, once the analytics process is set up, it is easy to monitor unlike traditional surveys in which one needs to repeat the entire process from scratch.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. Quantitative measurements provide insight into what is happening, but qualitative insights tell us why. With Core 4, you can collect a baseline measurement via self-reported metrics. For more, check out her LinkedIn and her blog.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. They use tools to help them with these responsibilities. Joining us for this episode is a CPO who shares some of the tools he uses, including roadmaps, metrics, and OKRs. Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. One of those goals was to reduce the overall cost of service across the organization. I took comprehensive notes to capture facts, feelings/emotions and opinions.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

In just six months, I transitioned from being a complete beginner to confidently speaking at conferences, sharing insights about AI and its impact on business and design. I found myself overwhelmed by complex machine learning algorithms, data modeling, and coding. Thats when I decided to adopt a business-oriented learning approach.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The Rules Are Blocking Your Progress These so-called “best practices” promise structure and alignment, but they often trap teams in a cycle of predictability and prevent breakthroughs. We know roadmaps provide structure, alignment, and predictability. Lets take them apart. and pursue the answers. Spoiler alertthey wont.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Yury Oleynik , the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ , who has managed to make continuous interviewing a reality on his team. Yury shares a few of the tactics his team tried to automate recruiting before they came across the tool they’re currently using, Orbital.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Key Insights: Sustainability isnt an expenseits a competitive advantage. Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? Key Insights: Durability isnt just about longevityits about relevance. Data-driven decisions matter.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

” Solution-centric data : “We’re making great progress; we’ve implemented 50 more user stories, and velocity is up by eight points!” ” Sadly, the data above is not helpful to see clearly how much value the product is creating. This often leads to too much data being gathered. 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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