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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

Creating a successful product requires a clear vision. Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. Despite all this data, Phil is unable to create a meaningful connection with her. A Tale of two Brands. Why do customers use your product?

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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.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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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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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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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

We live and work today in a world that is increasingly data-driven, but we cannot successfully adopt a data-driven approach to decision making without first identifying the metrics that matter most. Plus, there’s no shortage of tools to help us quantify seemingly everything. The real issue is lack of focus. In This Article.

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better?—?and and not the best product management tools.

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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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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. If you arent invited to the diligence party, rattle some cages: Arm Corp Dev: Provide them a short list of mission-critical data you must have before closing. Brians advice?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 1, 2025

He is known for his “extreme dogfooding” ethos—personally completing almost a thousand Uber driving and delivery trips to sharpen his product insight and user empathy—and his “ship, ship, ship” mantra, which drives rapid iteration across Uber’s global teams.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I gather data through surveys about observations. Lots of data goes into pinpointing. 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. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

My framework address five barriers to digital transformation: Lack of shared vision: A lot of companies have a generic intent to become more digital or futureproof the business, but those phrases are meaningless and generic, as opposed to a vision that is specific to the company. Where do we see our world, context, customers,

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

She regularly shares her learnings and insights on LinkedIn and recently took some time to chat with Teresa for this Product in Practice about her teams’ experience with continuous discovery. Tell me a little bit about your team structure: how many teams, who’s on it, who reports to you? You have this grand vision.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

From learning more about their career path to predicted trends to general tips and advice, there’s no shortage of lessons to be learned that can ultimately help you develop and become a better product expert yourself. What tools or methodologies do you use? What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap?

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. One of the critical tools that can help product managers improve customer satisfaction is the SERVQUAL model or Customer Service Gap model , a framework for identifying and addressing gaps in service delivery.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Paul Hurwitz Director of Active Analytics, ActiveHealth Management. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At its core, stakeholder management is about building strong relationships, fostering trust, and ensuring that everyone is working toward the same product vision. This can make managing expectations difficult, especially when dealing with senior leadership. This shifts the conversation from subjective opinions to objective insights.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Insights for product managers on fostering innovation in corporate environments Today we are talking about how established organizations can innovate, resulting in new products and ventures. We wanted to make some of those tools more available to people. [7:22] The tool that gets the most attention is hunting zones.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves.

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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 ? Meta Manager, Product Data Operations Meta office.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2022

The leadership side of product management reaches its pinnacle when you have the complete trust of executives, marketing, sales, engineering, finance, customer success, and customers. Product management leadership comes in two flavors. How will AP, AR and financial reporting change? The real question is, how do you get there?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Product strategy sits in between the mission and vision and the plan, either at the company level or at the team level.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams need to have a combination of hard and soft skills to succeed: technical knowledge , communication, leadership, strategic thinking, and empathy.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Product Innovation The Business Model Canvas is a valuable tool for product managers involved in innovation. It gives a complete view of how a product or business creates, delivers, and captures value.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. Track key product metrics with analytics dashboards. Product vision benefits.

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