2024

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own. Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feat

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Building High-Impact Teams and Data-Driven Decisions in Product Management with Abner Rosales 

Productside

This week on Productside Stories, host Rina Alexin sits down with Abner Rosales , Senior Director of Product Management Analytics at Experian. With a career spanning global teams and platforms generating millions in revenue, Abner shares his expertise on team-building, decision-making, and driving innovation in the fast-paced world of product management.

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The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. While I learnt a lot in the process, the resulting product sadly failed.

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The Best Bang For Your Discovery Buck – Customer Advisory Boards

Product Management University

Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) are still the best bang for the buck when it comes to “customer discovery,” not to be confused with user or product discovery! More on that later. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating numerous customer advisory boards for my clients. There are two common denominators in every meeting. The discussions between your customers are invaluable because of the rich context you’d never get in one-on-one discovery meetings with those same customers.

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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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Building a Great Product Management Organization

Melissa Perri

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way.

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The product manager’s guide to customer obsession

Alchemer Mobile

“We’re not competitor-obsessed, we’re customer-obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards.” – Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. For product managers, the path to success—both on an individual level and for the company as a whole—depends on a deep understanding of their customers. As the driving force behind product development, PMs are tasked with an ongoing challenge: to decode and respond to the evolving needs and preferences of their customer base.

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Reversing Teresa Torres’ “Opportunity Solution Tree” to find the “why” behind solutions 

Mind the Product

Discover the value of the Opportunity Solution Tree framework for uncovering insights behind a solution. Learn how to align your team and ensure successful outcomes in just a day or two. Read more » The post Reversing Teresa Torres’ “Opportunity Solution Tree” to find the “why” behind solutions appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Why Conflict Matters Conflict is often seen as something bad that should not occur. But in fact, it’s perfectly normal. It commonly happens when people with different perspectives, needs, and goals engage. [1] This is especially true in product management. As product people, we work with individuals from various business units or departments with different views and ideas.

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Product in Practice: Getting Value Out of In-App Surveys Takes Iteration

Product Talk

Committing to continuous discovery means changing the way your product team operates. It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. Continuous discovery means not making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week. – Tweet This This can sound

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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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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs.

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Tackling the Challenges of Personal Branding for Product Managers

The Product Guy

In the first part of this series, we explored the importance of personal branding for product managers and discussed practical strategies to build and strengthen your PM brand. However, the journey to developing a robust personal brand is not without its challenges. Balancing internal and external perceptions, managing expectations, and aligning your brand with your teams identity can present unique hurdles.

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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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How to Build and Improve Your Product Analytics Strategy

Userpilot

While “use data to drive decision-making” sounds obvious, there’s a HUGE gap between saying it and doing it well. So, how do you get started with product analytics ? In this article, we’ll talk about: What product analytics is and why you need a solid strategy. Key steps to build and improve your product analytics strategy. How to apply actionable metrics to different SaaS business stages.

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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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Navigating Uncertainty in Product Management: A Guide for Adaptable Product Leade

Sequent Learning

Introduction Imagine starting your day with a clear plan, feeling laser-focused on the tasks ahead, only to get a 7:30 a.m. text from the Chief Product Officer about a major product failure in the field. This setback involves an early adopter customer who invested heavily in Version 1. Or think of leading a product team when, at the eleventh hour, the engineering team discovers a critical flaw that delays the launch by six months.

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Why Building High TQ is Essential for Product Leaders

People-First Product Leadership

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. What are the contributing factors? 52% of product managers time is spent on unplanned activities. 56% of product managers feel their team lacks necessary skills or experience. 44% of product managers struggle with building and maintaining high-performing teams.

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Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Pendo —The only all-in-one product experience platform for any type of application • Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Naomi Gleit is head of product at Meta, joined as employee #29, and is the longest-serving executive at Meta other than Mark Zuckerberg.

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How Product Psychology Could Stop Uber Drivers From Stealing Food

UX Planet

I stole everyones Uber Eats orders, forscience Did you know Uber Eats drivers share strategies on Reddit about which orders to skip, cancel, or pass on to less savvydrivers? Its almost a sciencesome might say pseudosciencefocused on spotting tip baiters and maximising efficiency. After spending weeks roleplaying as an Uber Eats driver ( and stealing everyones food ), I uncovered an uncomfortable truth: many of these behaviours stem from gaps in Ubersdesign.

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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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How Yahoo creates a great experience for its users – Kameron Canbaz (Product Manager, Workflow and UX at Yahoo)

Mind the Product

In this week’s episode, we speak with Kameron Canbaz, Product Manager at Yahoo, who shares collaboration strategies between product managers and engineers, highlighting the early involvement of engineers in the design process to preempt errors and align user goals. He provides practical tips for maintaining a user-centric mindset, urging regular communication with users and fostering Read more » The post How Yahoo creates a great experience for its users – Kameron Canbaz (Produc

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How to Build a Strong Relationship Between Product Management and Sales with Anna Nuñez

Productside

Productside Stories S2 Ep7: Anna Nuñez In this episode of Productside Stories , host Rina Alexin interviews Anna Nuñez , Growth Manager of Sales at Databricks, to explore how product management and sales teams can collaborate more effectively. Anna dives deep into the importance of open communication between sales and product, actionable ways to streamline customer feedback, and why breaking down silos is essential for business growth.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

The job search process is often unpredictable. How long will it take to hear back from a company? What questions will they ask you during your interview? Will you even enjoy working there? While it’s not possible to remove all the uncertainty and ambiguity from the job search, Teeba Alkhudairi found a few ways to manage it. A big part of Teeba’s process involved putting her product skills to use throughout the job search, both in terms of identifying product-led companies and in terms of mapping

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. He explains how to conduct an AI-powered design sprint that transforms product concepts into clickable prototypes in just hours instead of weeks. Using a custom ChatGPT model combined with collaborative team workshops, product teams can rapidly move from initial customer insights to validated prototypes while in

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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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PM Branding: Building Your Personal Brand as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

As product managers, we often focus on the development and success of the products we bring to market. But there’s another product that deserves just as much attention— you. Developing and nurturing a strong personal brand is critical, not only for advancing your career but also for building influence within your company and the broader product community.

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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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UX Analytics: It’s Not Just About Data Collection and Methods

Userpilot

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features.

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From Adversity to Leadership: A Conversation with John Miles (Part 1)

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information: Clint delves into John’s inspiring journey from overcoming a childhood accident to rebuilding his confidence and graduating with honors from the Naval Academy. He explores his definition of self-leadership, highlighting the importance of hard work, mindset and behavior shifts, and the psychology of progress. John offers insights on how managers can infuse passion and purpose into their daily work and introduces the concept of being a “mosquito auditor.

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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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From Metrics to Culture: 5 Ways to Sharpen Your Product Sense

People-First Product Leadership

In today's fast-paced product world, having a sharp product sense isn't just an advantage—it's a necessity. But how do you hone this crucial skill when faced with conflicting data, unsupportive leadership, or an over-reliance on gut feelings? Drawing from the Reforge session on Product Sense that I did recently, today we explore the final five themes from attendee questions.

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How to become a supermanager with AI

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 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: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now Last week’s guest post about tactics for becoming a “super IC” is on track to being my most popular post of all time, so I’m thrilled to bring you a follow-up that̵

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The Rise of AI-Driven UX: Balancing Automation and Human-Centered Design in 2025

UX Planet

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat. In this article, we will mainly focus on how AI-driven UX has impacted and will continue to influence the modern business world.