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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. He has developed a systematic approach to problem-solving that forms the basis of his book, Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

This shift allowed me to develop compassion and focus on how I could genuinely help them succeed, which reinforced my confidence in my ability to contribute meaningfully.” As I was getting better at revenue formulas, my conversations shifted from feeling like traditional interviews, to more authentic, curiosity-driven discussions.

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Navigating Uncertainty in Product Management: A Guide for Adaptable Product Leade

Sequent Learning

This is why I’ve developed a self-assessment tool designed to help product managers evaluate their adaptability and identify pathways to growth in this crucial area. Continuous Learning Dedicate time each week for skill development. Comfort with Experimentation Apply A/B testing in product development.

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Coherence, Outcomes, and Dictation

Tyner Blain

Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. ” It is through the exploration of possible solution approaches that we truly develop an understanding of the problem. This is clearly insane.

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How Product Managers Can Define a Product Vision to Guide Their Team

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Defining the product vision is a high-stakes exercise, which makes it all the more important to avoid some common pitfalls product managers encounter: confusing the company’s vision with their product vision, defining a vision that’s too abstract to be useful in strategic planning, or combining the “what” and the “how” in the product vision.

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Measuring Design: Essential Metrics

UX Planet

Measuring design outcomes is a vital exercise that every product team should practice. This metric is critical for evaluating how effectively a company integrates research insights into its development processes. Metrics are structured into two bucketsoutcome and organizational levels. Frequency of referencing research data.

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From Stacking Features to Shaping Value: A New Product Building Model

UX Planet

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash For decades, software development has mirrored the construction industry — a manpower-heavy model where effort, hierarchy, and sequencing define how value is created. But that model is no longer working. Not for users. Not for businesses. That’s experience optimization.