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How Product Leaders Thrive in Uncertainty: Planning, Creativity, and Influence

The Product Guy

Planning creates momentum, even without clear outcomes : Roadmaps should adapt to what is known, what is still emerging, and what is possible. Directional insights and fast feedback loops reduce risk without slowing progress. Flexible plans grounded in principles help teams stay aligned and resilient. to “How certain are we?”

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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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Balancing Product Vision with Market Realities: Exclusive TPG Live Recap

The Product Guy

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. RICE scoring) to balance long-term vs. short-term needs.

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Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together

Productside

Product managers push for roadmaps. Clear feedback loops. Why Product and Engineering Collaboration Still Fails Too often, the relationship between product and engineering feels more like a standoff than a partnership. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Guy doesnt sugarcoat this dynamic. But thats not true.

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The Complete Guide to Managing User Feedback

Discover ways of consistently gathering user feedback, prioritizing ideas, planning your roadmap, and closing the feedback loop. Gain more engaged customers and build better products with the help of feedback. It can help you not only build the right features, but also avoid wasting time and resources.

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The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions (with Sample Answers)

The Basics of Product Management

Tell me about a time you managed a difficult stakeholder Situation: A senior exec wanted a feature that conflicted with user feedback. Task: Align the roadmap with both business and user needs. Plan the rollout: Beta testing, phased launch, feedback loops Measure and iterate: Use analytics and user feedback to refine 2.

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The Customer Service Gap Model

BrainMates

Regular customer feedback loops, user testing, and post-launch reviews are crucial. For example, you may have misaligned roadmaps or inconsistent feature prioritisation that doesn’t reflect customer expectations. Outcome driven roadmaps can help ensure that customer needs are accurately reflected in every development sprint.

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How Product Teams Can Leverage Community

Speaker: Scott Baldwin of ProductBoard

Through in-depth user insights, a clear product strategy, and an inspiring roadmap. Listening to the voice of the customer (VoC) and utilizing product feedback and ideation are some of the most effective ways to do just that. How to create a tight and ongoing feedback loop. How can they work together to do that?