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Delete to Accelerate: Transforming Your Product with a Reverse Roadmap

The Product Coalition

“If you’re not adding things back in at least 10% of the time, you’re clearly not deleting enough.” — Elon Musk There are moments when you hear something so simple yet profound. Sort of like an earworm — those melodies you can’t get out of your head. I’m not sure there is an equivalent, eloquent phrase outside music for a saying in business that hits you just as hard and rocks your world.

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Poll results: What tools are product managers using the most?

Mind the Product

Discover the top product management tools: including Jira, Pendo, Notion AI, and more, based on feedback from over 500 product people. Read more » The post Poll results: What tools are product managers using the most? appeared first on Mind the Product.

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8 Things to Consider When Adding Analytics to a SaaS Product

Qrvey

Here are the factors to consider when adding analytics to a SaaS product, from product management and UI (and UX) to DevOps and revenue generation. Engineering leaders and product managers at high-growth software as a service (SaaS) companies recognize that their customers’ end users need data-driven insights. Analytics enhance user engagement, improve productivity, and drive.

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Customer Recruiting for Continuous Discovery: Get Easy Access to Customers Week Over Week

Product Talk

In all of our Product Talk Academy courses , we ask students, “What’s your biggest hurdle to adopting continuous discovery?” Overwhelmingly, the #1 response is: access to customers. This doesn’t surprise me. In Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that the only way to make continuous discovery sustainable is to automate your customer recruiting process.

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How to Streamline Payment Applications & Lien Waivers Through Innovative Construction Technology

Speaker: Dylan Secrest, Founder of Alamo Innovation and Construction Digital Transformation Consultant

Construction payment workflows are notoriously complex when you consider juggling multiple stakeholders, compliance requirements, and evolving project scopes. Delays in approvals or misaligned data between budgets, lien waivers, and pay applications can grind progress to a halt. The good news? It doesn't have to be this way! Join expert Dylan Secrest to discover how leading contractors are turning payment chaos into clarity using digital workflows, integrated systems, and automation strategies.

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Why Your User Stories Are Killing Product Usability

Product Management University

Your user stories are killing product usability because they’re missing two critical components. Not only is product usability suffering, the absence of these two components is making product design all the more difficult. Here are two things you won’t find in any agile book or agile training course that’ll complete your user stories, simplify design and improve product usability.

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Making the Complex, Easy: Self-Service A/B Testing Is Here!

Amplitude

Learn how Amplitude Web Experimentation brings self-service experimentation to growth teams, web product managers, and marketers to maximize conversion rates.

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Why no productivity hack will solve your overwhelm

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny, and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lenny and Friends Summit | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now When I was working on a post about productivity tactics (which went on to become one of my all-time most popular), I shared a draft with my

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Building Beta Programs That Go Beyond Bugs with Keith McDonald

Centercode

Keith McDonald discusses building beta programs that go beyond bugs, improving user experience and fostering innovation.

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Turning Home Assignments From a Necessary Evil into an Opportunity

The Product Coalition

While home assignments are a lot to take in, they also give you an opportunity to shine and make sure the job is right for you. Here’s how. Most candidates hate home assignments. They view them as a chore, an unfair or unnecessary request from the potential employer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ll never forget my first product management home assignment.

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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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 Unlocking the Power of AI in Product Management: Watch the TPG Live Replay Now

The Product Guy

AI is no longer just a buzzword—it’s rapidly transforming the way we manage products. If you’re not adapting, you’re already falling behind. In our recent TPG Live roundtable, we dove deep into the future of product management, from leveraging AI for smarter decision-making to tackling the roadblocks that hold teams back. If you’re serious about staying ahead in product management, this session is a must-watch.

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Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • The Enterprise Ready Conference — For B2B leaders building enterprise SaaS • Command AI — AI-powered user assistance for modern products and impatient users • Eppo — Run reliable, impactful experiments — Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a leading B2B cybersecurity company.

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Product-led growth in action – Partho Ghosh (VP of Product, Uberall)

Mind the Product

In this week’s podcast episode, Partho Ghosh, VP of Products at Uberall, shares his transformative journey from computer science graduate to product management leader, revealing the intricacies of implementing product-led growth (PLG) strategies. Having played a key role at Hootsuite, Partho now navigates the challenges of scaling at Uberall, bringing profound insights into how PLG Read more » The post Product-led growth in action – Partho Ghosh (VP of Product, Uberall) appeared

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Three Reasons to Insist on Outcome-Based Planning

The Product Coalition

Here are three reasons not to give up and stick to the important principle of working with outcomes. Photo by AP Vibes Outcome-based roadmaps are considered the best practice; however, they are not as common as you would expect. While the idea is nice, implementation is much trickier, and many companies revert to simple feature stacking instead. When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system.

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Build the Case: Quantify the Real Costs of In-House Testing and QA Gaps

Underinvesting in software testing costs more than you think, and now you can prove it. This guide helps you quantify hidden costs like developer time, support overhead, tech debt, and lost revenue. Use the companion calculator to model your own data, and present your findings with a ready-to-edit presentation template. Whether you're making the case to leadership or validating outsourcing, this toolkit gives you the numbers and tools you need.

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Say Hello to the Product Lifecycle Roadmap

Gocious Blog

Introducing the Product Lifecycle Roadmap Does this sound familiar? Your team rolls out a plan for a software update, only to find it includes discontinued products or features that aren't launch-ready. Even well-aligned teams can struggle when vital lifecycle details are hidden away in their product management tools. Miscommunication happens—especially when product data isn't easily accessible to everyone who needs it.

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Matt Lerner’s Turing X SYSTM London Growth Summit. 6th November, London, UK.

Business of Software Conference

Matt Lerner’s Turing X SYSTM London Growth Summit. 6th November, London, UK. Speakers: April Dunford – Positioning expert and author of Obviously Awesome Sean Ellis – The OG Growth Hacker, inventor of the North Star Metric, High Tempo Testing and the “Sean Ellis Test” of product/market fit. Joanna Wiebe – Copyhackers.com, world’s expert on direct-response copywriting Alex Depledge, MBE – Serial entrepreneur who founded and sold Hassle.com and curre

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Products on average retain 30% of customers after 3 months: Product benchmark findings

Mind the Product

User retention is an important metric for determining a product’s success. Our recent benchmarking report has shed some light on patterns in user retention across various industries and company sizes. Let’s dive right into what our data has told us. Our analysis reveals that products, on average, manage to retain 38.8% of their users after Read more » The post Products on average retain 30% of customers after 3 months: Product benchmark findings appeared first on Mind the Product.

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#HowIPM Tools to Run Experiments

The Product Guy

Michael Ionita, CTO at AutoTrading.vip, shares his more top tips on some great tools for running your product experiments. [link] “How I PM” is a series where product managers, of all levels and experiences, share tips and tricks on their approach to product management. Stay tuned for more episodes and subscribe to the The Product Way channel to get notified of upcoming releases.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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510: How to use these AI tools to create a product brief – with Brian Collard

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents. To use AI well in product management, we need to know how to ask it questions (called prompt engineering), balance AI ideas with human know-how, and always double-check AI’s work.

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Mastering Prioritization: Finding the Balance Between Data and Intuition 

Productside

Introduction As the Major League Baseball postseason heats up, I’ve been reflecting on one of my favorite movies, Moneyball. If you’re unfamiliar, it tells the story of Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, and how he built a winning team on a limited budget using data-driven decisions. He focused on stats that traditional scouts. The post Mastering Prioritization: Finding the Balance Between Data and Intuition appeared first on Product Management Courses | Productside.

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Leading B2B product management in high-resistance environments

Mind the Product

Discover actionable strategies to overcome stakeholder resistance in B2B product management, align vision, and drive successful product innovation in high-resistance environments. Read more » The post Leading B2B product management in high-resistance environments appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Might We Fix Product Management and Close the Skills Gap

The Product Coalition

How the product craft lost its way and what we can do to fix it.

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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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Amplitude Continues Quest to Make Technology Easy with Command AI Acquisition

Amplitude

Amplitude acquires Command AI.

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Mastering Prioritization: Finding the Balance Between Data and Intuition 

Productside

Introduction As the Major League Baseball postseason heats up, I’ve been reflecting on one of my favorite movies, Moneyball. If you’re unfamiliar, it tells the story of Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, and how he built a winning team on a limited budget using data-driven decisions. He focused on stats that traditional scouts.

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Sunday Rewind: How to avoid product discovery pitfalls, by Navin Nair

Mind the Product

In this week's Sunday Rewind, consultant Navin Nair shares some advice on overcoming common product discovery mistakes Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: How to avoid product discovery pitfalls, by Navin Nair appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Hiring A Web Development Agency (Complete Guide)

Arkenea

Hiring a healthcare web development agency is not rocket science. The tricky part is finding the ideal fit for you, capable of understanding your requirements and delivering them to you. Having a website increases your chances of being noticed and more patients are likely to drop by your healthcare facility for a check-up. Did you know that more than half of adults use the Internet to look up health information?

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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How Can AI Enhance Product Management

UX Planet

Three Ways AI Can Help Product Managers Continue reading on UX Planet »

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Beyond the Data: The Human Touch in AI-Driven Healthcare with Anne Pelz

Productside

Productside Stories S2 Ep5: Anne Pelz Join us as we dive into AI-powered healthcare with Anne Pelz, Vice President of Product Management at OM1. Discover the transformative impact of AI in diagnosing rare diseases and optimizing treatment plans. Learn how OM1 bridges the gap between data and human empathy, and get valuable advice for product management leaders in AI-driven innovation.

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Live Event: Breaking Blockchain Barriers: Chain Abstraction and the Future of Web3

The Product Coalition

Get ready to dive into the future of Web3 with an electrifying online event featuring the brilliant Rowland Graus ! Join us for "Breaking Blockchain Barriers: How Chain Abstraction is Shaping the Future of Web3," where Rowland will unravel the complexities of chain abstraction and orchestration. Discover how these innovations are revolutionizing cross-chain communication, reducing friction for developers, and enhancing user experiences across the Web3 ecosystem.

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