The Product Guy

JULY 19, 2025

The strongest product leaders are not frozen by ambiguity. They build systems for curiosity, flexible planning, and continuous learning that help their teams thrive even when the path ahead is unclear. We put together a complete strategy breakdown with 20 frameworks, real-world examples, and targeted guidance for both PMs and CPOs.

Product Research

Userpilot

JULY 19, 2025

For SaaS, it must be framed in the context of how they use your product and their jobs-to-be-done. Good personas open the door to following a user-centric product development strategy. Product design teams and UX researchers can personalize in-app guides and UI to solve persona-specific problems.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I worked closely with a seasoned board member to trace this back to a lack of product strategy—both articulated and aligned. With her help, I wrote the first strategy document for Headspace, which eventually led to the complete reimagination of Headspace , maximizing growth for our guided mindfulness product and adjacent spaces.

Strategy

Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Table of Contents What Is Outsourced Software Product Development? What Is Outsourced Software Product Development?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

De-risking your 2025 initiatives Why every intelligent app must start with a PoC By Jill Antweiler Posted in Product Published on: January 15, 2025 Last update: January 15, 2025 As we settle into 2025, many executives are eyeing ambitious initiatives to leverage new technologies and drive innovation. What is an intelligent app?

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

We asked some of the industry experts about how do they merge both the aspects and finalize the features of the product. Want to get your app development project off the ground? Arkenea is a trusted, app development firm with 13+ years of experience. And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

User Testing

Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Without a clear understanding of these factors, products risk failing to meet real-world demands.

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BrainMates

JULY 9, 2025

Turning Strategy Into Outcomes: Influencing Stakeholders To Achieve Alignment By Erica Wass At a Glance This blog outlines how successful product strategy depends on aligning cross-functional stakeholders, not just building a strong plan. In product management, strategy alone isn’t enough.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, in a recent Lenny’s Podcast , Archie Adams shared that Shopify runs experiments with cohort analysis after 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years as the CEO’s vision is to build “the right things for commerce 100 years from now” Looking for specifics? Technology and customer needs are never static.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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UX Planet

MAY 1, 2025

It helps make the product relevant to the local audience, attract more users, and ultimately, increaserevenue. According to CSA Research , 76% of online shoppers prefer buying products with information in their native language. Writing systems Layout. For example, English is LTR, while Arabic isRTL. link] Font.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2025

Robinhood is an app that allows people to easily trade stocks, options, crypto, and more. Research Robinhood’s values before your recruiter call to demonstrate your thorough interest in the company and culture.  Design a stock trading platform. How would you design an experiment to test a new app homepage layout?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The SpaceX Raptor engines are a great example. Then, hearing the idea repeated — delete, delete, delete — I started to think about products in general and roadmaps specifically. This was one such situation — the product leadership team agreed and memorialized the decision that our product was bloated, and we needed to streamline it.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Tips for achieving AI-led digital transformation What eight industry leaders want you to know By Modus Create Posted in Digital Transformation , Operations , Platform , Product Published on: December 10, 2024 Last update: December 10, 2024 AIs evolution from a buzzy trend to a business investment has taken many executives by surprise.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2025

Martin's core thesis is that an effective strategy requires a coordinated and integrated set of five choices: a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems. Take, for example, the Bounty paper towel brand. These activities are best understood as a system of reinforcing activities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

IBM is most widely known for its software and hardware products, but it also offers consulting services, data analytics, AI, and hybrid cloud solutions. No matter the type of interview, IBM recommends demonstrating knowledge of the company, the team, and the product you want to work with during this round.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Welcome to our third episode of Product to Product —a podcast for / by product people. Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. I want a single page system your team’s using. Eleni: Right.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 23, 2025

Role Focus Skills Examples Machine Learning Building and tuning ML models and systems. - Data engineering roles are more focused on infrastructure, pipelines, and tooling. If it calls for building pipelines and tuning models, go deeper on ML and systems. Interview focus: ML coding (e.g.,

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I do a lot of research. And, the research is done sometimes to the workshops I deliver. And the way I see it sometimes is through these quick examples. So we have technical solutions that don’t necessarily solve a customer problem. Or, hey, my favorite folks sometimes, the product manager people.

Data Visualization

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Product discovery is the process of “figuring out a solution to a problem we’ve been asked to solve,” writes Marty Cagan. [1] 1] It involves understanding and selecting user needs, exploring solutions, and choosing the most appropriate one. Let’s now get back to Opportunity Solution Trees.

Product Research

The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Businesses and individuals are increasingly making SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications their choice software platform for their business needs. The increasing popularity of cloud computing indicates that the importance of SaaS will only increase in the future. SaaS products already have these integrations.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. Most companies offer more than a single product.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Product Strategy Discovery Explained What is product strategy discovery? More precisely, it is the process of developing a product strategy whose implementation will likely create the desired value and impact.

Product Research

Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. Which ones?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Introduction In the world of product management and innovation, market research is like a compass.

User Testing

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

If you are not performing the above activities, your role may be an another approximation to a Product Manager role. A PM may receive help from specialists in the organization such as Researchers, Project Managers, Product Marketing etc. Ultimately the accountability lies with the Product Manager. Product Strategy.

Technical Review

Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

While this probably sounds like common sense, I’ve seen more than one organisation trying to get more done by throwing people at a product. No wonder that the individuals struggled and the product suffered. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Below’s an example of how objectives can be structured: Q1 2017.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Product Innovation The Business Model Canvas is a valuable tool for product managers involved in innovation. It gives a complete view of how a product or business creates, delivers, and captures value.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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