The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Product Differentiation AI tools can help you make your product stand out from the crowd and offer a clear reason for people to choose it over alternatives. This can be achieved in two ways: First, data mining can identify opportunities for differentiation, assuming that the relevant data exists.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How might people use the product? What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? How can the product be built? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? The latter largely determines how the product should be developed. What are the major touch points?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With privacy concerns, AI-driven decisions, and increasing competition, trust is becoming the ultimate differentiator for PMs who want to build lasting customer relationships. So, how can product managers proactively build and protect trust in their products? Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy, manager of Proctor and Gamble’s Promotion department. In many ways, the role of a brand manager has informed the modern-day product manager role. It’s May 13th.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

The difficulties you face from going to 0 to 1understanding your customer, identifying what will differentiate your product, building early versions of that product, and actually finding customers to use it? They still exist, even when your product is an API. Its more common for developers to decide what to build.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

But what if the real differentiator isnt having the answers… its knowing what to ask? In todays product environment, questions are your sharpest tool for uncovering user needs, guiding teams, and influencing outcomes. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers).

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience. Differentiation: In a crowded market, your brands unique personality and approach set youapart. billion in annualrevenue.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 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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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Meanwhile, the product management hiring industry has apparently made a fetish out of its own formulaic interview questions which only prove that you’ve exhaustively studied the rote patterns they rely on. Plus a bonus.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As product managers, the first principles approach enables us to attack problems from new angles, armed with sound logic. Guided by fundamentals and first principles — Tesla transformed the trajectory of automotive technology. Be sure to agree on them, set them, review them, and adjust as you go. Does it make sense?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

No unnecessary leads: Unlike sales-led growth, product-led growth has a lesser amount of unnecessary leads, hence a better conversion rate. Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

But this only works if the product and market are stable and experience little change. For digital products, this is hardly ever the case in my experience. New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. Sentiment analysis is often used to review survey results from customer-service interactions, product reviews, etc. The idea here is to understand how strongly someone feels about the topic.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Introduction In the world of product management and innovation, market research is like a compass.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. As helpful as it is to create a product strategy, it is not enough. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I recently spoke at Productized in Lisbon on ‘turning stress into success’ Why this theme? Because, as product managers and leaders, we’re stressed. 88% of product managers feel stressed often or all the time. 52% of product managers time is spent on unplanned activities.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Let me clarify that by channel partner I mean a large ecosystem of value added resellers (VARs), solution providers, service providers/managed service providers and systems integrators (SIs).

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For forward-thinking online retailers, this means hiring an eCommerce product manager. What Is An eCommerce Product Manager’s Product? Although the job description can vary from company to company and across industries, product managers all share at least a couple of common responsibilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Companies reviewing their security and privacy standards need to look at the whole landscape, taking into account all vendors and integrations, as opposed to just focusing on their own product and database. For platform companies such as Intercom, we plug into other products and platforms as needed. Sign me up. You’re all set.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

What does 2024 have in stock for product managers ? Let’s check out 11 predictions on product management trends in 2024. More companies will use product-led tactics to lower their costs and streamline the sales cycle. Partho Ghosh, the VP of Product at SecurityScorecard on product management trends 2024.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Subscribe now Chatbot tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are quickly becoming de facto co-pilots for product managers. And 85% are using one weekly 🤯 Robert Bye, a PM at Figma, shared a common sentiment: When was the last time a new tool went from non-existent to daily use for the majority of product managers?

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