The Product Manager Coach Blog
MAY 27, 2025
You know what they dont tell you when you become a product manager? Its not just about the roadmap, or the backlog, or hitting those OKRs. Its about people. Leading them. Listening to them. And yes showing up with empathy, even when youd rather sprint your way out of a tough conversation. Today I want to share why empathy isnt a nice-to-have. Its your secret weapon.
Lenny Rachitsky
MAY 27, 2025
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Productside
MAY 29, 2025
Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Operations Helps Teams Move Faster (Without Burnout) Growth is great. Until it breaks your team. More products. More teams. More tools. More meetings. But not necessarily more clarity. If your organization has ever said, We need product ops, odds are youre already in the weeds. Growth adds complexity, and if you scale without a plan, you dont just end up working harderyou end up working against yourself.
DevelopmentCorporate
MAY 24, 2025
Claude Opus 4 shocked researchers by generating blackmail emails to preserve itself. Explore the real examples and what this means for AI safety. The post When AI Tried to Blackmail Its Developers: Claude Opus 4s Shocking Emails appeared first on Development Corporate.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
BrainMates
MAY 28, 2025
The 4 Capabilities Product Managers Need Now And Into The Future By Adrienne Tan Product management is at a crossroads. We’ve spent too long in delivery mode. It’s time to reassess the capabilities we need and step into our rightful role as strategic navigators and orchestrators. The four critical capabilities product managers need today and beyond are: Commercial Acumen.
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Business of Software Conference
MAY 27, 2025
Think about it this way: when you’re trying to sell something, especially software, it’s easy to just show off all the cool things your product can do. This is like giving a product walkthrough. Many people, especially founders from technical backgrounds, incline towards this because they want to avoid sounding like that pushy “used car salesman” stereotype someone seen as lying or just trying to get your money without caring about what you actually need.
Alchemer Mobile
MAY 28, 2025
As a CX leader, you clearly know how essential customer experience is to long-term business success. But knowing isnt enough, especially when you’re seeking funding, headcount, or executive support. To make real progress, you need more than a compelling narrative. You need a powerful business case. And that means speaking the language of your CFO.
UX Planet
MAY 25, 2025
Lessons from Pixar’s Creative Movie Creation Process Continue reading on UX Planet
Spice Catalyst
MAY 28, 2025
In this amazing episode of the Peak Performance Perspectives Podcast, host Mark Talukdar talks with David Fradin, a product management expert with over 50 years of experience! David has worked with big companies like Apple and HP. He has helped people become great leaders and build products that really work.
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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y
Productside
MAY 27, 2025
Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Its a product strategy problem. Thats where the Productside Blueprint comes in. In this serialized story, youll meet Heather Leaf , VP of Product at WellNest Health, and her lead PM, Tommy Trunk.
Mind the Product
MAY 27, 2025
Discover key strategies for early-career product managers to build credibility, lead effectively, and grow professionally. Learn how to connect with stakeholders, celebrate your wins, and mentor others. Read more » The post Navigating the workplace as a young product manager appeared first on Mind the Product.
The Product Coalition
MAY 25, 2025
In this episode of the Product Coalition Podcast, host Jay Stansell engages with Michael Smith, a veteran product leader, to explore the unique challenges of building AI products.
UX Planet
MAY 27, 2025
Chasing the next big product win in banking or fintech? Poor financial UX might be whats holding your teamback. For decades, banks competed through branch locations, branding and fee structures. Today, in 2025, the real battleground isnt on the streetits in the palm of your hand. The smartphone app has become the front line of financial competition.
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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.
Productside
MAY 29, 2025
Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Operations Helps Teams Move Faster (Without Burni This post How Product Operations Helps Teams Move Faster (Without Burni first appeared on Productside | Product Management Courses & Training by Suhail Vawda
Mind the Product
MAY 30, 2025
In product, burnout is characterised by a sustained blurring or destruction of boundaries which degrades the health and long-term productivity of an individual or team, Nick Jemetta tells Mind the Product. Nick, an AI Product Coach and Human Skills Speaker, continued: Its a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged Read more » The post What burnout taught me: lessons from product managers appeared first on Mind the Product.
freshtrax
MAY 30, 2025
During a meeting earlier this month with Brandon Hill, CEO of btrax, our conversation shifted from sales and marketing to Japanese culture and business practices. We somehow landed on matcha, and he told me about a video hed recently seen saying, “You know, some Chinese matcha brands are deliberately misleading consumers into thinking they’re buying Japanese products.” This sent me down a rabbit hole.
UX Planet
MAY 25, 2025
Lets be brutally honest: Nobody wakes up excited about their conversion funneluntil its leaking hard-earned traffic all over the place, and every upward tick in ad spend brings diminishing returns. Sound familiar? If youre an eCommerce marketer or owner, you already know the basics: attract, engage, convert, and (hopefully) nurture. But heres the twist most folks misswhat separates those who simply have a funnel from those who crush their revenue goals is their obsession with thoughtful UX desig
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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.
Userpilot
MAY 30, 2025
Most product teams get mobile app analytics wrong. They track 47 different key performance indicators (KPIs) in their mobile analytics platform , spend hours debating dashboard numbers, yet can’t predict which users will churn next week The problem here isn’t a lack of data. Teams are drowning in the wrong usage metrics while missing important behavioral data signals. 86% of leaders agree that this data overwhelm leads to less confidence in decisions.
Mind the Product
MAY 28, 2025
Artificial Intelligence has changed the way developers workand Stack Overflow is right at the centre of that shift. In this episode of The Product Experience, Jody Bailey, CPTO at Stack Overflow, shares how the platform is adapting to AI, protecting its community, and embracing new revenue streams. We explore how LLMs are reshaping developer behaviour, Read more » The post How Stack Overflow is competing with AI – Jody Bailey (CPTO, Stack Overflow) appeared first on Mind the Product.
Lenny Rachitsky
MAY 25, 2025
Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business Krithika Shankarraman was the first marketing hire at OpenAI and Stripe and led marketing at Retool.
UX Planet
MAY 25, 2025
Instrumentation & RecruitmentSetting the Stage for Effective User Interviews Part 2 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Previously in Part 1 of The UX Research Playbook series, we explored how to set UX research up for success by crafting well-defined research goals within a structured framework. These goals serve as a compass and scaffolding of any qualitative study, ensuring focus and alignment across your team.
Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
Userpilot
MAY 27, 2025
What separates a good app from a great one? Its not just the design, features, or marketing. It’s what you do with the behavior data your app collects. And by behavior data, I dont mean installs (thats the easy part). I mean what happens after the download: how users navigate, what features they engage with, and where they drop off. All questions you can only answer with: Mobile app tracking.
Spice Catalyst
MAY 27, 2025
Episode Description In this exclusive episode of AI to the Sky, we sit down with David Fradin, a global product management expert with decades of experience at Apple, HP, and as founder of SPYCE Catalyst.
Tyner Blain
MAY 26, 2025
How do you debate how to build something you’ve been asked to build? There are several constraints which affect choices – non-functional requirements (NFRs), cost, capacity, and capability are easy ones to discuss. And while all of those are relevant, an altogether different factor has dramatically more impact on your results. “Can We Do It?
UX Planet
MAY 27, 2025
When youre working on a product used by millions on a daily basis, creativity starts to look a little different. Its no longer about whats trendy or what makes your portfolio pop, its about reliability, trust, and small decisions that quietly scale. Youre designing for everyone: the 21-year-old who grew up with apps (literally), the 72-year-old who finally downloaded app with their grandchildrens help, and everyone inbetween.
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As your company grows and your product matures, so too should your product strategy. Drawing from their decades of experience as product leaders, Stanford Online instructors Donna Novitsky and Laura Marino share best practices for defining your product strategy at each stage of company growth. Get practical, real-world product strategy tips from experts who have lived through the same challenges you’re currently facing.
Userpilot
MAY 30, 2025
Tracking mobile app performance metrics can feel daunting. One look at your mobile app analytics dashboard, and you just want to shut your eyes and scream in frustration. You aim to extract meaningful insights to improve app performance and user engagement. But you find yourself puzzled, overwhelmed, and uncertain about which metrics truly matter. Ive been there too You’ll learn to identify and use the right metrics to make smarter decisions.
NextBigWhat
MAY 30, 2025
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering constructing an advanced production facility in the United Arab Emirates, a move that could potentially boost the country's tech industry and create new job opportunities. The discussions with officials signal growing interest in expanding TSMC's global footprint beyond its home base in Taiwan. The post TSMC Considers Building Advanced Chip Plant in UAE appeared first on nextbigwhat.
BrainMates
MAY 26, 2025
How to Conduct a Competitor Analysis: A Practical Guide for Product Managers By Adrienne Tan A competitor analysis is one of the essential activities you should undertake before launching a new product or business. At Brainmates, we follow a six-step process to evaluate the competition and use those insights to make informed product decisions. Why Competitor Analysis Matters As Product Managers, having a solid understanding of our competitors and their movements in the market empowers us to make
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