The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2025

Types of Product Manager Interview Questions Behavioral: “Tell me about a time…” Product Sense: “How would you improve…” Technical: Understanding systems, APIs, and trade-offs Case Study: Real-world scenarios to test your thinking How to Answer: “Tell me about a product you admire” This is a common question to assess your product thinking.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Picture this: A room full of product leaders huddled around market data like detectives at a crime scene, learning to spot the subtle clues that spell opportunity. Just as a master chef knows instinctively when a dish needs a pinch of salt, great product leaders cultivate an intuition that bridges data and action. The secret?

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Currently, Reynolds serves as an Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Appfire Flow , where she leverages data-driven insights to help customers achieve their goals and unlock the full potential of their investments. What you invest in your career is exactly what youll get out of it.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Data-driven decision-making: Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making and measure success. OpenAI: B2B Growth, Lifecycle As part of the Growth team, you’ll be at the forefront of bringing OpenAI’s technology to the world. This role is based in San Francisco, CA.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

Whether you’re in product, UX, or strategy, this is your blueprint for a discovery framework that actually moves the needle by connecting user insight to the metrics that drive revenue. Its about identifying and testing promising solutions that actually matter fast. Good questions get you real insights. What happened?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 19, 2025

Simplify security • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators. Hire advisors who’ve been there before and can offer insights you wouldn’t get otherwise. Your problems aren’t unique.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

One of the questions a Designer invariably hears during an interview process, particularly when showcasing a case study, pertains to the duration of the solutioning endeavor they have just showcased. The first substantial software project I was involved in, was a multi-year endeavor that was already in motion when I joined the team.

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UX Planet

JULY 17, 2025

It’s summarising workshops, writing user stories, translating content, analysing tone of voice, creating templates, and speeding up research. And yet, as we continued discussing AI, one thing became clear: AI is already influencing user experience, but content designers aren’t always at the table when these tools are developed.

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UX Planet

JULY 1, 2025

As the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) defines it: “Content design is about using data and evidence to give people the information they need , at the time they need it, and in the way they expect.” To put it simply, content designers are strategists, researchers, and problem-solvers. But most of all, they are designers.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

The reason was simple: creating visuals was the only easily understandable skill I had that no one else knew how to do, and it was acknowledged. The results may be slightly less consistent, but that’s a trade-off better addressed by hiring specialists in design systems. The best and most sustainable way to do that?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

Let’s get some help and learn how to talk about the importance of innovation with senior leaders and the tools that can help organizations be better at innovation. His research in innovation has been published in several places, including his recent book No-Excuses Innovation and his practice-changing book Serial Innovators.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

Subscribe now For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Swag | Hire your next product leader | My favorite courses I’ve always been fascinated by what tools people choose to use in their work. Today, with insights from over 6,500 of you (thank you! As the third-most-used tool overall, Slack continues to crush it. 5% use Bolt.

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Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Consider this: Imagine being able to rally a cross-functional team behind your vision, to convince stakeholders to support an initiative, or to simply inspire colleagues to embrace a change – all without a single direct report. Inspiring others to tell the same story can be a helpful tool for you. What’s The Story?

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I do a lot of research. And, the research is done sometimes to the workshops I deliver. So we have technical solutions that don’t necessarily solve a customer problem. We’re making up the numbers in the spreadsheet, but we didn’t do the proper research. So what is going on?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. Then when Tali moved to her current position, she brought her opportunity solution tree knowledge along and adapted it to the new setting. It was a great experience,” says Tali.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

And this is why it can be helpful to consider the tools that will best support you in building your continuous discovery practice. Let’s be clear: The tools alone won’t automatically make you better at discovery. Since there are countless ways of approaching this, we’re kicking off a new series, Tools of the Trade. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Chris shared the story of how he introduced the opportunity solution tree to several teams at his company and a few of the iterations that helped make the tree an indispensable tool at SuperAwesome. He works at SuperAwesome, a UK-based company that develops tools and services to make the internet safer for kids.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

Unfortunately, that technology isn’t here yet, so UX research tools are the next best thing. These tools can provide you with the qualitative and quantitative data you need to understand how your customer behaves in your product, so you can make the necessary changes to improve their experience.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

With the vast number of people required to conduct research efficiently, orchestrating this symphony of manpower and resources can be incredibly challenging. TL;DR Research operations (also known as ResearchOps) consist of organizing people, resources, and processes to streamline research and maximize impact.

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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. We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. Stephanie: Absolutely.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Using KPIs and collecting the relevant data helps you balance intuition with empirical evidence. I am not a big fan of “standard” KPIs, for example, customer acquisition cost (CAC), churn, and number of active users for SaaS products. This includes the analytics tools we have available today. But it is not enough.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. This ability to predict is about shooting for repeatable product success. Who has it?

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Product Talk

JUNE 12, 2024

Amanda Wernicke and Craig Fogel are product managers within the Product R&D department at Convo , a Deaf-owned sign language interpretation services and technology company. That means we had to test how the user would behave both with our app and Zoom,” says Craig. Jason Ruzicka is a product designer.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. I gather data through surveys about observations. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Prototype it til you make it. Factor in future costs.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s said that more than two-thirds of software projects fail to deliver expected results. This case study describes a part of a larger product discovery project that I led as a product manager at Uniregistry , a platform that enables easy buying and management of domains and complementary products (online presence, business apps).

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A shift in technology and a change of mindset amongst employees has laid the groundwork for a remote-first approach to setting up and operating product teams. User Research. Successful user research forms the foundation for every product manager. Instead, make use of tools like Calendly or schedule.me

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The key to minimising these, he says, is effective product research. To minimise the number we need to spend time doing effective product research – a combination of user research, market research and product analytics. What is Product Research? Research requires more than just evidence.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for the best ways to conduct user research and gather actionable insights? Whether you’re building a product from scratch, updating something on your platform, or just want to listen to users and create better experiences , this article provides the guide you need. We covered: The benefits of proper user research.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The presence of AI in UX design has been increasing and several innovative tools have emerged with the focus to help designers through their process. Top AI Tools for 2024 Lets start listing down some of the Top AI Tools for Designers to Explore in 2024. It offers the designers variety of tools to work based on their goals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2020

In Part 2 of our Coping Through COVID series , we learn how the team at Springer Nature Experiments quickly created an interface, packed with vital information on Coronavirus detection protocols for the scientific research community. As the world went into lockdown, the challenges for researchers became even bigger still.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you searching for the tech and design partner you can trust while building your mobile app together? As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2024

They combine insights from user research , data analytics, and design thinking to create cohesive and compelling experiences that align with business goals. Supplement your education with courses in user experience (UX) design , research methodologies, and data analysis. Book a demo to see it in action!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll break down underlying customer activation strategies and actionable strategies, specific onboarding tools , and techniques, and tangible examples to learn from. All of that will help you nail customer activation in your own SaaS. SaaS owners and product managers are busy people.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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