BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

The issue isn’t the framework. It’s the environment around it: disconnected strategy, overloaded goal-setting, and zero rhythm for reflection. Anchor to strategy. So they roll out Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to connect strategy to execution. It’s time to move from box-ticking to behaviour-shifting. Start small.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Let's dive into the mental and practical strategies that can help you thrive, regardless of your product direction. Subscribe now Mindset Shift from Execution ←→ Strategy The biggest hurdle with clients is the mental shift from tactical execution to strategic thinking. It's not just about getting things done.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2025

Many organisations have no structured tools or frameworks for articulating the needs of the product management role and rely on informal conversations alone to set expectations. To find out more about defining and using capability frameworks, read our white paper on the subject. It also means they are longer lived artefacts.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s revisit the framework. At the foundation, product sense begins as a blend of ‘art’ and ‘science’ With the rise of AI, the framework for achieving and maintaining product sense is evolving. Regularly exercise your product judgment by making informed decisions and reflecting on outcomes.

Product Research 52

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It bridges the gap between observation and action, transforming scattered (and messy) information into clear, prioritised insights that can drive product strategy. Lets explore using atomic notes gathered into the wall-to-wall exercise of affinity diagrams with exploratory research scenario as the focus.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 8, 2025

This week, we’re diving into science-backed frameworks. As Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) says in the recent F1 film, “Hope is not a strategy.” For example, I worked with a CPO who excelled at strategy but struggled with execution. Layoffs are continuing. Multiple job rejections feel personal.

Leadership 52

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 15, 2025

Find where you can add unique value within that framework. ” exercise. You’re not the protagonist in your company’s story—the CEO is. Your job isn’t to get your ideas implemented but to brilliantly operationalize the CEO’s vision. Help them earn their seat through valuable contributions.

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Sequent Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

Each area builds upon the others, creating a comprehensive framework for leadership through influence. Understanding what influence is and how it operates lays the groundwork, but to effectively exercise influence, you must first establish yourself as someone worth following (this is fundamental to effective leadership).

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Direction, Alignment, and Commitment (DAC) framework from the Center for Creative Leadership is a game-changer for making an impact - no matter your role. Try this interactive exercise. Your People Are Your Strategy Here are four steps to put today’s concepts into motion.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Develop theapp Build the educational app using the latest technologies and frameworks. Develop a marketing strategy to promote it and attractusers. Focus on well-being: Include features like mindfulness exercises, breaks, and feedback on user stress levels to contribute to a holistic learning experience.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

In part one of this comprehensive guide— The definitive guide to mastering product sense interviews — I explained why product sense and analytical thinking interviews matter and I walked through my framework for acing the former. Now I’ll walk through my framework for acing analytical thinking interviews.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 29, 2025

To find a great name, use the “diamond” framework: Draw a diamond and label “Win” (top), “What we have to win” (right), “What we need to win” (bottom), and “What we need to say” (left). they are told they are naming a bike).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Similarities Identical Rounds: Expect many of the same rounds, including coding exercises, behavioral interviews, and a recruiter screen. When you receive a take-home project, consider it a practical exercise and a foundation for future interview rounds. Optimization Considerations: Discuss strategies for optimizing the schema.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2025

🧠 Learn more : Dashboarding Interview Framework What interviewers are testing: Can you manage the scope without losing trust? Growth Strategy: Where would you look for opportunities to improve user retention? Use frameworks like PACE (Problem, Approach, Calculation, Explanation) to structure your responses.

Data Visualization 52

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success. SAFe Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2. 3] Figure 3 illustrates the team’s ownership of the goals.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

1 ] In fact, some people argue that product leadership can only be exercised by a management role. Leadership can therefore be exercised without being a boss. The leadership they exercise is called emergent or lateral leadership.[ The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 11, 2024

The Discover, Analyze, Create, Develop Design Thinking Framework for product managers You’ve heard about Design Thinking or even tried it. It is a simple-to-understand tool for solving problems, developing strategy, and most commonly for us product professionals, for developing a new product or service.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Create B2B onboarding strategy for a premium organic products for <Startup V> catering to niche user segment focused on wellness, health & lifestyle” Why was it needed to define the problem for onboarding strategy?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps. Below is a brief overview of the framework that I use and a few signs of where you should start if you want to run this exercise yourself. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. and approach the exercise with a ”Yes, And.” Start with the most critical user and then add additional users.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. The result of this meeting might be a set of ideas that support your existing roadmap strategy.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As you climb the ladder, primarily the focus changes from solution and execution to strategy. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Product Strategy. As a first step, PM needs to define the strategy for the product. Hard Skills Required for the Role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Act II: Building a visual framework.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Most products begin with functionality, but as I do this exercise with the companies I work with, they often realize that something is missing, even if the technical capabilities are there. Step 2: Deliver the Value Once you have a clear definition of the value, it’s time to make sure the product delivers that value. Stay tuned.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The client service team supports the work flow that software has been built to support, and different organizations have strategies in managing these interactions. And through careful synthesis contributes to a build strategy that has an end goal of creating a product of value. They are also about bringing value.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

The challenge lies in fostering effective collaboration without a clear social framework to guide these interactions. This framework provides a holistic approach to leadership, encompassing knowledge, action, and personal attributes. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Former Staff UX Designer Maureen Rodaro was also key to implementing and evangelizing this type of exercise and a driving force behind pairing product managers and designers. Going through this exercise also revealed that some tasks are in between roles. Frameworks also help them to keep their goals within the appropriate scope.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael To build a successful product strategy, you must be willing to make tough choices that have a lasting impact and represent big moves. No choices = no product strategy. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 30, 2018

You should confidently exercise your license to sell. But here’s where I’d argue you should confidently exercise your license to sell. From BANT to MEDDIC, which framework should you use to qualify your sales leads? The post License to sell: 5 strategies to hit your sales quota appeared first on Inside Intercom.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Many have a well-defined AI strategy and have made considerable progress. However, the emergence of generative AI presents an opportunity for these enterprises to revisit their AI strategies and plans. Functional leaders can use a simple productivity zone framework to classify work within a function (refer to Figure 1).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

To me, it translates to your products driving your business strategy and growth plan. Your products now drive your market strategy and growth plan. A framework to ensure your strategic plan and long-term growth plan are product-driven. Being product-centric means you are inherently both user and buyer-centric.

User Testing 156

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Experience Mapping is a strategic exercise of identifying, capturing, and communicating the interactions of multiple brand touchpoints over space and time. It is a strategic exercise for getting omnichannel alignment. What is the framework for building an experience map? Or read on for an overview of his key points.

Customer Experience 151

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Throughout the whole journey, your customer needs a cohesive experience so they ultimately feel confident in your product, which means it can’t be a box-ticking exercise for one team, but rather a constant concern for multiple teams. We treated it as a product in its own right, and based it on the modular framework we set out above.

Onboarding KPIs 188

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. In the worst case, the strategy is no longer valid, but you do everything you can to steam ahead, asking the team to push out more and more features. Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership.

Leadership 203

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

What’s a product metrics framework? We also look at how product managers can use Userpilot to implement product metrics frameworks. TL;DR A product metrics framework is a set of metrics used to measure the performance and success of a product so that you can improve it. What is a product metrics framework?

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