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The Data Skill Gap: What Product Managers Must Master in 2025

The Product Guy

Product managers are now expected to be not only customer-obsessed but also data-fluent. In this episode, Jenna Gaudio shares essential insights on how modern PMs must evolve their skillsets to handle massive data flows, navigate regulations, and responsibly craft intelligent product experiences. What You’ll Learn: Data Management as a Core Skill : Why today’s product managers must master not just data access but interpretation, regulation, and ethical usage Avoiding Data Pitfalls : How ch

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Why Your Product Feels Boring and How Gamification Can Fix It

UX Planet

With AI tools making product development faster than ever, it’s no surprise that the competition is brutal. Every product is fighting for attention and, more importantly, for retention. If you’re a product designer, you already know the real challenge isn’t just getting users in the door. It’s getting them to stick around. This is where gamification becomes your best friend.

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How Product Managers Can Build Better Dashboards (Without Data-Team Bottlenecks)

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How Product Managers Can Build Better Dashboards (Without Data-Team Bottlenecks) During our recent Metabase × Productside webinar when I teamed up with Tanya Aulachynskaya (Product Manager, Cloud, at Metabase) half the audience admitted they juggle “multiple options” for analytics: Amplitude for product, Excel for finance, Salesforce for sales.

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From Survey to Salesforce: Automate customer feedback in minutes

Alchemer Mobile

In our new webinar, Rosie, Director of Product Marketing at Alchemer, sat down with Justin, Alchemer’s Integration and API Product Manager, to dive into a topic every CX team should be thinking about: automating customer feedback collection and management. This isn’t just a demo (though yes, Justin gives a fantastic one in this webinar). It’s a practical deep-dive into how Alchemer helps teams close the loop between feedback and follow-up.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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3 Strategies to Fuel Product Innovation and Product Portfolio Management

Gocious Blog

As global supply chains evolve and customer demands shift toward personalized and sustainable solutions, traditional approaches to product innovation and product portfolio management no longer suffice.

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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] The Burnout Signal: The Hidden System Behind High-Performer Collapse

The Product Guy

Every product leader I know is running fast. They’re shipping consistently. They’re hitting velocity targets. But under the surface, something is breaking. “We never miss a sprint. But we’re exhausted.” “I think I’m the one burning out.” I’ve heard these exact words in the past few weeks from PMs and product leaders I trust, respect, and once thought were invincible.

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Which Statistical Model is Best for A/B Testing: Bayesian, Frequentist, CUPED, or Sequential?

AB Tasty

If you’ve ever run an A/B test, you know the thrill of watching those numbers tick up and down, hoping your new idea will be the next big winner. But behind every successful experiment is a secret ingredient: the statistical model that turns your data into decisions. With so many options – Bayesian , Frequentist , CUPED , Sequential – it’s easy to feel like you’re picking a flavor at an ice cream shop you’ve never visited before.

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How Demand Management Aligns Product Strategy with Your Market in 2025

Gocious Blog

In today’s volatile manufacturing landscape, the gap between product strategy and market reality has never been more costly. Global manufacturers face unprecedented challenges: supply chain disruptions, rapidly shifting customer preferences, and economic uncertainty that can render traditional forecasting methods obsolete overnight.

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How to Build a Successful Product: Lessons from Launching and Growing a Freight Transportation…

UX Planet

How to Build a Successful Product: Lessons from Launching and Growing a Freight Transportation Platform I joined the company as the first full-time employee and, over five years, tried on multiple roles — from product design to strategic planning. I helped the product evolve from an idea to a market-ready service, went through one pivot, and gathered a lot of insights along the way.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Behavioral Segmentation in SaaS: Types, Examples + How to Get Started

Userpilot

What’s your primary goal with Behavioral Segmentation? Understanding your main objective helps tailor the approach to user behavior analysis. Increasing new user activation Boosting feature adoption Improving trial-to-paid conversion How do you currently analyze in-app user behavior? The tools you use determine the depth of your behavioral segmentation capabilities.

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Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Brex —The banking solution for startups Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the co-creators of the Design Sprint (the famous five-day product innovation process) and authors of the bestselling book Sprint.

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Announcing Gainsight’s New Data Center in Europe!

Gainsight

We’re excited to announce a major milestone for Gainsight: the opening of our new European Union (EU) data center in Germany! This development reinforces our commitment to supporting European businesses with world-class AI solutions, such as Gainsight Atlas and Staircase AI , designed to drive customer retention and growth at scale. For companies across EMEA, the launch of this regional data center means faster performance, stronger data residency, and enterprise-grade security—all while meeting

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Designers Beyond the Interface: Building, Leading, and Solving in the Age of AI

UX Planet

How design is becoming the engine — not just the interface — of modern products. A few weekends ago, I launched a Shopify app on my own — not to prove I could code, but to solve a real merchant pain point. I had no dev team, no startup budget — just a clear understanding of the problem, a few AI tools, and the instincts of a designer. But what surprised me most wasn’t the launch.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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How Amplemarket Increased Product Adoption 10x and Built an All-in-One Product Insights Engine

Userpilot

What’s the main goal behind your interest in an Amplemarket Case Study? Understanding your primary objective helps us see if a product-led approach could be a better fit than traditional sales outreach for your growth strategy. Improving new user activation Increasing feature adoption Boosting free-to-paid conversion How are you currently guiding new users?

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How this PM streamlines 60k-page FDA submissions and saves millions with Claude, Streamlit, and clever AI workflows | Prerna Kaul

Lenny Rachitsky

Watch or listen now: YouTube // Spotify // Apple Brought to you by: CodeRabbit —Cut code review time and bugs in half. Instantly. Lovable —Build apps by simply chatting with AI Prerna Kaul is a product and platform leader who has spent over 14 years turning machine-learning research into consumer and B2B products at Amazon Alexa, AGI, Moderna, and now Panasonic Well.

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Modern Alternative to Atlassian Strategy Collection/ Jira Align

Dragonboat

Strategic Portfolio Management Is Critical in Today’s Fast Moving Environment Today’s market moves fast. To stay competitive, companies need to continually evaluate, align and adjust strategy, roadmap, and execution so that investments are both planned and delivered to accelerate business outcomes and gain a competitive stronghold. This is where strategic portfolio management or SPM, and […] The post Modern Alternative to Atlassian Strategy Collection/ Jira Align appeared first on Dragonbo

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Invisible UX Friction: A Substack Mobile Quirk That Tripped Me Up

UX Planet

Small details in product design can create big moments of friction. This is one of them. TL;DR (In Short) While commenting on a Substack post ( not a note ) via mobile, I accidentally kept hitting the Send button mid-thought because it’s placed on the left side with barely any padding for my big thumb. It broke my writing/ commenting flow multiple times.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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8 High-Impact PLG Email Campaigns to Guide Users Through Their Journey

Userpilot

PLG email campaigns done right can bridge the gap between signup and product adoption. Unlike traditional marketing emails sent to everyone on a schedule, product growth teams create PLG emails responding to what users do inside your product. With that, every message becomes contextual. Every touchpoint pushes users toward actual product adoption. Here’s how you can build effective behavior-driven sequences for your product.

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🧠 Community Wisdom: Best strategy and design books, building resilience as a PM, prioritizing roadmaps in B2B, optimizing websites for AI and language models, and more

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of ✨ Community Wisdom ✨ a subscriber-only email, delivered every Saturday, highlighting the most helpful conversations in our members-only Slack community.

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How retail brands turn disconnected feedback into action

Alchemer Mobile

Walk into any store, scroll through an app, or browse a brand’s Instagram, and you’ll find retailers eager to collect feedback and learn how they’re doing. But here’s the challenge: while brands have gone omnichannel, their feedback strategies often haven’t. When data stays siloed by channel—store surveys over here, app reviews over there—it’s nearly impossible to connect the dots and holistically understand the full customer experience.

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A Designer’s Guide to WCAG Accessibility

UX Planet

Accessibility is a core part of creating inclusive, effective design. One of the most widely recognized standards in this area is WCAG. But what exactly is WCAG, and why does it matter for designers? WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It was first published by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) in 1999, with major updates in WCAG 2.0 (2008), 2.1 (2018), and the latest WCAG 2.2 (2023).

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

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

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12 Lifecycle Email Marketing Examples for Successful PLG

Userpilot

What is your biggest lifecycle marketing challenge right now? Understanding your main goal helps in finding the right lifecycle email marketing examples and strategies. Onboarding and activating new users Driving adoption of key features Improving trial-to-paid conversion rates Announcing new features effectively How are you currently trying to solve this?

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Gainsight Leadership Lays Out the Path to Agentic Scale

Gainsight

AI is fundamentally reshaping how customer-facing teams operate, and nowhere is this transformation more evident than in customer success (CS). During Gainsight’s recent webinar, Reaching Agentic Maturity: The Path to Agentic Scale , Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Brent Krempges, CCO of Gainsight, laid out a compelling vision for the future of AI agents in scaling customer retention and growth.

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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: CodeRabbit —Cut code review time and bugs in half. Instantly. DX —A platform for measuring and improving developer productivity PostHog —How developers build successful products Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every. With just 15 people, Every publishes a daily AI newsletter, ships multiple AI products, and operates a million-dollar-a-year consulting arm—all while their engineers write virtually zero code

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When one drops the hat: How real teams move without missing a beat

UX Planet

When one drops the hat, a real team syncs ,no blame, no pause. Just trust, timing, and the quiet skill of moving as one.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

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.

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Customer Churn 101: How to Identify and Address It

Userpilot

What’s your biggest challenge with customer churn right now? Understanding the root causes of customer churn is the first step to reducing it. Pinpoint your main struggle to see how you can improve retention. Identifying why users are leaving Proactively engaging at-risk users Measuring churn accurately How do you currently track customer health and predict potential churn?

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ONE THING on Language is Value

Product Culture

The common language of roadmaps is value. But not only value to the customer. To gain buy-in, identify the key value to each department and make it explicit. UX cares about value to users. Account managers care about retention. The language of sales is cold hard cash. This is what you were hired to do: to translate around the organization so you can create alignment.

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Navigating AI metrics

Intercom, Inc.

How do you lead a support team in this new world with AI metrics? The technology is amazing, but our assumptions and processes for understanding and leveraging AI metrics are very different from traditional support metrics. Our new CX Score is the perfect example. This post originally featured in our AI-first customer service newsletter, The Ticket.