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

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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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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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

It happened with PMs, engineers, designers, and marketers at all levels of seniority and tenure. Through conversation, talent reviews, and direct experience leading large organizations, I’ve developed a few key principles to help new skip leads better understand and perform their role.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout).

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How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)

Lenny Rachitsky

Signs it’s time to hire PMs: Bottlenecks in decision-making Engineers or designers are often confused or overwhelmed You're expanding into new product areas The type of PM you need depends on your product's stage: Pioneers: This type of PM excels in the zero-to-one phase.

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Stop monitoring systems; start monitoring outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

This question has led us to develop what we call “heartbeat metrics” – vital signs that instantly tell us if our systems are truly serving their purpose. It might be a database failover, a misconfigured fleet, or a bad code change – it doesn’t matter. and page in engineering and an incident commander. What’s a heartbeat metric?