Product Management University
MARCH 2, 2025
The biggest reason product manager demos need to be great has a lot more to do with internal stakeholders than any other audience. Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for product managers, but most product manager demos are to internal audiences. Ive seen more than my fair share of product manager demos to internal audiences.
Mind the Product
MARCH 4, 2025
Microsoft is shutting down its Skype service in May, 14 years after it paid $8.5 billion for the once pioneering video calling company. Skype users will be migrated to Teams. The service had 36 million users in 2023, when Microsoft last reported user numbers, compared with 300 million users at its peak. Its a decision Read more » The post When a product doesn’t fit: Skype’s decline inside Microsoft appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Productside
MARCH 6, 2025
Ever wondered how product leaders juggle massive mergers & acquisitions, tricky integrations, and a pressure-cooker paceall while keeping their teams fired up and focused? Meet Brian Fugere , a pro whos navigated the high-stakes terrain of M&A more times than he can count. In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government.
The Product Manager Coach Blog
MARCH 4, 2025
Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks. But when you build strong relationships, you create alignment, accelerate decision-making, and drive better results for your users and your business.
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
UX Planet
MARCH 4, 2025
Measure twice and cut once is a universal recommendation that works both for tailors and product designers. The only way to know if your product is doing well is to start measuring design success. Yet, measuring success might not that easy, especially if youve just recently started to do it. You can struggle with one of the following five misconceptions about measuring UX: 1.
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Userpilot
MARCH 5, 2025
Are you struggling to make sense of scattered user data? The right customer analytics platform helps you uncover exactly how customers interact with your product: so you can spot issues early, optimize user journeys, and drive sustainable growth. With a reliable analytics solution , you wont miss critical signals or overlook game-changing insights that could increase product adoption.
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 1, 2025
👋 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.
Roman Pichler
MARCH 3, 2025
Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Teams: Benefits and Challenges A product team is a group of people who collaborate effectively, have ownership of a product , and are responsible for achieving product success. Product teams have become popular for a good reason: None of us is as smart as all of us, as Ken Blanchard once put it.
Gocious Blog
MARCH 3, 2025
The world of product management encounters an array of technical terms, phrases, and acronyms that can confuse even seasoned professionals in the product management realm. To aid both aspiring product managers and those who want to master their field, weve created this comprehensive glossary of fifty essential product management terms and their definitions to help you collaborate better with your colleagues and boost your knowledge.
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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
The Product Guy
MARCH 4, 2025
John Kresse, Senior Director of Product Management at SoulCycle and a former college basketball player at Emory shares a simple but powerful way to combat overconfidence and make better product decisions. 3 Key Questions to Challenge Assumptions & De-Risk Your Roadmap: 1. How confident are you in the projected impact? Assign a confidence percentage to ROI estimates. 2.
Productside
MARCH 3, 2025
Taking charge of a product management team can feel like juggling flaming torchesthrilling, but also risky if you dont have the right game plan. In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively.
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. The collaboration between AMS and MIT researchers has yielded impressive results, with AI tools not only matching human analysts in identifying customer needs but often exceeding themespecially for emotional needs that humans
Mind the Product
MARCH 4, 2025
Discover how a struggling product manager transformed into 'Super SQL Man' by using AI-powered LLMs to conquer SQL queries, streamline data analysis, and unlock powerful business insightsno expert coding required! Read more » The post Are you struggling with SQL? AI can give you analytics superpowers appeared first on Mind the Product.
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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.
The Product Guy
MARCH 7, 2025
In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Maya Brooks discusses the balance between creating revenue-focused and socially impactful products. She explains how flexibility in product design supports entrepreneurs through both good times and challenges. If you’re interested in social impact product management, this episode offers key insights on building user-centric solutions.
Productside
MARCH 4, 2025
Stepping into product leadership means balancing strategic vision, customer focus, and emerging tech. In this episode of Productside Stories, Neha Bansal , Head of Product at Meta Ads Manager Reporting, joins Nicole Tieche to discuss her career, the high-speed role of AI in advertising, and how PMs can stay ahead of industry shifts. Key Topics Discussed in This Episode Key topic #1 From Consulting to Product Leadership Neha shares how a customer-first mindset led her from consulting to product
Product Management University
MARCH 5, 2025
No matter what role you playproduct management, marketing, sales, customer onboarding, or account managementif your starting point isnt quantifiable customer value, fuhgeddaboudit! Nothing else matters. Period. End of story. Its easy to get caught up in your own goalscorporate goals, sales targets, marketing KPIs, retention quotas. Before you know it, your view of what the market actually values is as clear as a foggy windshield.
Mind the Product
MARCH 7, 2025
Tomorrow is International Womens Day (IWD), a moment to celebrate the contributions of women across every industryincluding product management. At Mind the Product, weve featured hundreds of female product professionals on the #mtpcon mainstage, on our blog, on The Product Experience podcast, and in our training sessions. To mark the occasion, we reached out to Read more » The post Women in Product share their stories and career advice: International Women’s Day appeared first on Mind
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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.
The Product Guy
MARCH 4, 2025
You think you’re doing everything right. Your team is following the roadmap. You’re gathering customer feedback, hitting your OKRs, and tracking every metric imaginable. And yet, your product is stuck. Users churn, innovation stalls, and your team feels like theyre running on a never-ending treadmill. Heres the uncomfortable truth: these very practicesroadmaps, obsessive customer listening, and metrics worshipare strangling your products potential.
UX Planet
MARCH 3, 2025
Dark mode isnt just a featureits a necessity. It enhances comfort, saves battery, and delivers a sleek, modern experience across all your devices. Dark mode isnt just a trendy feature anymoreits a standard. In 2025, people dont ask if an app has dark mode; they expect it. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all doubled down on dark-themed interfaces, and its easy to see why.
Product Innovation Educators
MARCH 4, 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. The collaboration between AMS and MIT researchers has yielded impressive results, with AI tools not only matching human analysts in identifying customer needs but often exceeding themespecially for emotional needs that humans
Mind the Product
MARCH 6, 2025
In this conversation on this week’s podcast, Adam Warburton, Co-Founder of Rove, shares his journey from being a Chief Product Officer at large firms like Co-op and Travelex, to co-founding his startup, Rove. He discusses the challenges and learnings from transitioning to a startup environment, the importance of prototyping and user feedback, and the balance Read more » The post From Co-op CPO to Co-Founder – Adam Warburton (Co-Founder, Rove) appeared first on Mind the Product.
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.
The Product Guy
MARCH 5, 2025
Stakeholders push for features. Deadlines loom. Decisions get made fast. But what if you’re solving the wrong problem? Stakeholder alignment isnt just about keeping people happyits about ensuring that your team is working on what truly matters. So, how do great PMs move beyond surface-level requests and identify the real issues ? In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: The most common mistakes PMs make in stakeholder alignment.
UX Planet
MARCH 6, 2025
You did a great job creating a new design, and the last thing you need to do is to sell your work to management. Even though this might seem like a routine operation, selling design to management is often one of the most challenging parts of the designprocess. In this article, I will share six practical tips that will help you achieve thisgoal. 1. Understand what businessvalues The first thing you should do before even trying to sell your design to management is to identify what management wants
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 2, 2025
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Mind the Product
MARCH 2, 2025
This weeks Sunday Rewind is a 2023 ProductTank Oslo talk, in which product consultant and coach Janet Bumpas explains the key aspect of a product hero: building a product that customers love. Janey says customers dont want more features. She cites an internal Microsoft study where teams found their ideas had improved metrics they meant Read more » The post Sunday Rewind: How to find out what your customers want by Janet Bumpas appeared first on Mind the Product.
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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.
Tyner Blain
MARCH 2, 2025
“I don’t get to set the direction. Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” This is a common situation for a lot of product managers. They’ve been told that some big initiative is happening, and it’s up to them to “make it work.” Without all the details needed to unambiguously define what “it” is.
UX Planet
MARCH 3, 2025
Different websites serve different needs, and their design must reflect that. In this guide, well explore various website types, their goals, key design considerations, and real-world examples to help you craft memorable experiences. Website types and how to designthem 1. SaaS (Software as a Service)Websites Purpose: SaaS websites aim to convert visitors into users by showcasing the products value, features, andpricing.
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 4, 2025
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