Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

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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Productside

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

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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Product Management University

JUNE 12, 2024

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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Product managers have long relied on the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), but in the age of AI, a minimum AI-Ready Product (MAP) – an evolution of the MVP that ensures a product is not just functional but ready to leverage AI from day one has become crucial

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

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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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 19, 2024

“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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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2024

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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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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 Talk

MAY 15, 2024

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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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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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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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Productside

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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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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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Product Management University

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Our vision is to be the best!” Cue awkward silence in the conference room. “Best at… what exactly?” “Everything!” If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. It usually unfolds in layers of confusion. First, there’s the vision – those sweeping statements that try to inspire but end up saying nothing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

👋 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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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction to customer satisfaction surveys Customer satisfaction surveys are vital tools for understanding what customers think, feel, and experience. Surveys provide a range of insights, from quick feedback after a purchase to in-depth assessments of brand loyalty. This information empowers teams across your company to make informed decisions based on customer experiences and perceptions.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are one of the most popular frameworks that many companies use to define success; however, many product teams struggle to use them effectively. We sat down with Jeff Gothelf, Author and Leadership expert, to discuss his latest book, “Who Does What by How Much?” and explore how product teams can better Read more » The post Why most companies struggle with OKRs: A conversation with Jeff Gothelf appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I’m hosting a lineup of free events this December! I’d love for you to join one. December 4th: Continuous Interviewing: Unlock the Power of Story-Based Customer Interviews This webinar is designed to help you better understand what a good customer interview looks like. We’ll cover: Why most of the advice you read online about customer interviews isn’t adequate The cognitive biases that make it hard to get reliable feedback from everyday customer conversations A simple (but not always easy) techn

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

Customer Feedback

The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Drew Falkman shares the toughest lesson hes learned in product management: the importance of failing fast. Drew explains how, early in his career, he spent too much time making assumptions and building features before validating them with users.

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Productside

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Introduction If you joined our recent live webinar on Product Management Trends in 2025, you already know that this years conversation wasnt business as usual. From AIs seismic impact to rethinking leadership, our panel of experts pulled no punches, sharing actionable insights to help you crush it in the coming year. Heres the inside scoop. The post Product Management Trends in 2025: What’s Next?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fear not, product managers. AI isn’t going to take your job. Quite the opposite. It’s going to make you a better product manager than you ever imagined. The AI fueled product manager also gives product management leaders and executives their long-awaited wish of having a team with stronger market savvy that consistently operates more strategically and does it with a high degree of consistency.

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Technical Product Manager at GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow. She has extensive experience in the area of Product Delivery and close cooperation with development teams. In her work, she tries to implement the scrum approach.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What are OKRs? OKRs are a method for setting and tracking goals. The acronym stands for objectives and key results. The objective is the goal, which describes what you want to achieve. The key results state the specific criteria that have to be fulfilled to meet the objective. To make this more concrete, let’s look at an example: Objective : Grow the product management team.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Explo — Embed customer-facing analytics in your product • Sprig ⁠⁠ — Build products for people, not data points • Sidebar — Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers — Raiza Martin is a senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, where she leads the team behind NotebookLM, an AI-powered research tool that includes a delightful podcast-on-demand f

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In this digital-first world, understanding your customers’ experiences is more crucial than ever. While reaching them through digital channels should be easy, it often proves to be a challenge. To better understand the common challenges organizations face with digital feedback tools, we conducted a comprehensive market research study that revealed several critical pain points.

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