The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

a time for reflection, community, and gratitude—values that resonate deeply with the dynamics of product management. As product managers, we often focus on metrics, deadlines, and deliverables. Embracing gratitude can transform our teams, enhance collaboration, and ultimately lead to better products.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Our discussion explored strategies that leading companies are using to integrate sustainability, design for durability, and make smarter decisions about product evolution. Sustainability in Product Development: More Than Just an ESG Initiative Sustainability in product management isnt just about reducing waste.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Product management is one of the hottest careers in high-tech right now with tremendous career growth. If you’re considering a career in this industry, you’ll need to know exactly what will be expected of you as a product manager. What Does a Product Management Career Path Look Like?

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fear not, product managers. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. Taking You Out of Your Comfort Zone Get ready, product managers because AI is definitely going to change your job if it hasn’t already, but you’re going to love it! You’re doing product design and development.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Goals in Product Management. As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Does this mean that there is a natural fit between goals in product management and OKRs?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. This article explores multiple aspects of product management.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did.

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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 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 3) How should I go about solving it?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I was hired to become the product manager for the company’s mobile products. My boss thought that we were too slow, the developers wanted to close open branches and I was trying to be thorough enough so I could get a good night’s sleep. I finally have enough time to be a Product Manager. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the latest TPG Live session, Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation , we dived into strategies product managers can use to expand their influence, foster innovation, and navigate the evolving landscape of product management.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I decided to review all the concepts of project and product management to understand what I was doing well and what I was not organizing correctly. What matters most in maintaining genuine satisfaction is cultivating a positive attitude within both your work life and personal life.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2024

Essential strategy tools and frameworks for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Want to level up your product management game? This guide dives into the world of product strategy, sharing insights from expert Andreas Maihoefer. Maihoefer stresses that understanding strategy is crucial for product managers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. More About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Jeremy Horn.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

For product managers, it’s even more important because we intersect with different people in different scenarios every day with the ultimate goal of aligning the product to the customer and the business. . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

For us product people, however, difficult emotions are particularily relevant. Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Instead, put things into perspective and think of a positive quality that Jon has.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

For us product people, however, difficult emotions are particularily relevant. Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Instead, put things into perspective and think of a positive quality that Jon has.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The details vary, but we generally speak with members of the product trio to learn how theyre putting these concepts into practice. For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. But not today. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 16, 2020

Train your brain for success in product management. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [4:00] The fourth step is the positive emotion that’s generated from this system. But we can choose to speak positively to ourselves. Train your brain for success in product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. Many teams have tried adopting Scrum for developing hardware products, not always successfully. Dorian has a deep background in product development, starting in engineering and then moving to business leadership roles.?

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

How product managers can make OKRs drive real results Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Ben Lamorte, the world’s most experienced OKR coach and founder of OKRs.com, we explored how product managers and leaders can transform their approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

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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? Our guest, Kenton Hansen, was in that position at Roll20 three years ago. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:34]

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How product managers can use visual storytelling to make their ideas stand out. As we move into 2021, the name of this podcast is changing to better reflect our objective here—product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

How to successfully transition to a product management role Watch on YouTube TLDR Transitioning from one career to another is full of challenges, especially when the two fields seem vastly different. This diverse experience, she found, was not unlike working in a product environment.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments. Here’s a bonus.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Learn what sets successful product management teams apart. Today we are talking about a recent study that gives us insights into what’s going on in product management and product management teams. For several years, our guest has conducted the Study of Product Team Performance.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 31, 2020

The five languages of appreciation for product managers. Create positive workplace relationships and improve staff morale. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [5:03] If you enjoyed the discussion, help out a fellow product manager by sharing it using the social media buttons you see below.

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