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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

The criticisms raised in the article—many of which stem from anecdotal frustrations and surface-level observations—overshadow the reality of a role that has become indispensable in delivering value to customers and businesses alike. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. And per customer?

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Coaching and Discovery in Product. What High-Performing Teams Are Doing Differently [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar.

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Storyboarding for Influence: How Product Managers Can Drive Alignment Without Authority

Productside

When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer.

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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. We need engineers involved throughout. I started my career as a software engineer.