Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

What WellNest needed wasn’t another roadmap or velocity boost. It promised to help employers and healthcare providers support employee WellNest with physical and financial tools. Define: Prototype and test potential solutions before scaling. Create: Prioritize, align, and build a strategic roadmap. But growth stalled.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Example: Why: Remote teams waste time switching between disconnected tools.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Yury Oleynik , the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ , who has managed to make continuous interviewing a reality on his team. Yury shares a few of the tactics his team tried to automate recruiting before they came across the tool they’re currently using, Orbital.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Product managers push for roadmaps. Clear feedback loops. The PM Role: Strategic, Not Administrative In one of the most eye-opening moments of the episode, Guy shares how an internal platform team once assumed they didnt need product management. Engineers push back with technical constraints. Guy doesnt sugarcoat this dynamic.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Lead the Product.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. other than the objectives ?—?neither

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? What tools or methodologies do you use? What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? Previously, he has worked for SaaS companies such as Dropbox and Apptimize. Meet our product management experts.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. Others are SaaS companies that are scaling or have scaled recently and want to ensure they are doing it in the best way. I review strategies and roadmaps. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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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. It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. That’s when I realized there was a need for a tool that can bring cross-functional teams together. [6:52]

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

The smartphone app has become the front line of financial competition. Any banking app that feels generic, uninspired or offers little real value is already lagging behind. Because todays users wont waittheres always a smarter, faster and more useful app waiting to take itsplace. Amazon reshaped retail with customerfocus.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

How do managers monitor and provide feedback without dictating and controlling? The most obvious way to be output-oriented is to give your teams a roadmap that lists features and release dates and ask them to deliver against that roadmap. Or they prefer a mobile web experience to an app experience? than on Android?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

To achieve this, perform a stakeholder analysis using a tool like the Power-Interest Grid shown in Figure 1. [2] The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

When Jane, a seasoned product manager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. Advanced Tactics: Stakeholder Mapping: Use tools like the Stakeholder Alignment Blueprint (available on jonihoadley.com) to identify key goals and concerns. Click here to download.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Established organizations are seeing a lot of external change—new technologies, new behaviors among customers and employees, and digital change.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What strategies do you use to prioritize your product roadmap? What tools or methodologies do you use? What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers? She currently works on the Concur mobile app on the platform side. You can have beautiful roadmap decks and beautiful PowerPoints.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. A great way to do this is to mentor and coach people.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. Lisa says, “We led with ‘What can we predict?’ But what exactly is orchestration?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. A product leader with 7+ years of experience in product management or a related field who has successfully built and scaled complex systems at a global level. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 5, 2022

To make the duties more accessible, I have grouped them into four sets: people management, processes and tools, business strategy and organisational development, and self-leadership. Use, for example, the CEDAR model and appreciative inquiry techniques to offer feedback in the right way and help people get back on track.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 30, 2021

The solution requires companies to institute two parallel career growth paths — one that focuses on people management and another that focuses on leadership as an individual contributor , often titled as staff or principal designers. Senior designers create design solutions that drive customer satisfaction and strategic outcomes.

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BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

Turning OKRs into a high-performance system By Kathryn Shepherd-King At a Glance OKRs Aren’t the Problem. A leadership team wants sharper focus. When OKRs Become Theatre When done well, OKRs are a powerful alignment tool. Tie them to planning, roadmaps, rituals, and retros. Visibility isn’t just for leadership.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

But before we get to solutions, I want to share more of our discovery context for Product Talk, the business. And just like I encourage trios to share their discovery context before they share their roadmaps and backlogs, I’ll do the same here, before I talk about my plans for the year ahead. You’ll get that. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Offer advice and feedback.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 20, 2019

Two weeks after your team’s app update launches, your boss stops by your desk to share some bad news: App store ratings have plummeted from 5-stars to 3-stars and new download volume has decreased 25 percent. Customers are uninstalling the app right and left. Steps to Take Before an App Update.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ensure that people have the infrastructure and tools they need to do a good job. This includes laptops, tablets, phones, and software tools; but it may also include having access to a kitchen and a coffee machine. In theory, your Scrum Master should focus on providing people and process leadership.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. We encounter tools along the way—some that are helpful and some that are not. I realized I was most excited about the solution and customer experience.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Defining your process for feedback will save time and improve feedback quality. Consider Your Approach to Feedback. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Dismissive of Feedback. Do you start with a “No”?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations. Please check that out using your favorite podcast app by searching for Advance Leadership Conversations. How a software company flipper learned to build great teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A key ingredient to build a better product is customer feedback. There are various ways to collect customer feedback that include customer surveys through sales executives, feedback forms, focused interviews, etc. The same approach with a few alterations can be replicated for B2C SaaS products as well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

And sure enough, the feedback was that things were starting to slow down. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Being open to feedback. We learned a lot.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. You should therefore strive to keep your product backlog as concise as possible whenever your product faces uncertainty and change—be it market, business, or technology related.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Below, Hilary Gridley , director of product management at WHOOP, shares strategies she’s learned to leverage the latest AI tools to not just become a better manager but to level up her entire team. These tactics and tools are practical and actionable, and you can start experimenting with them today, even if you’re not managing.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. Strong team leadership: 5+ years of direct PM management experience. Image] Who would be the best fit for this job?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). ” Company roadmaps might be linear, but customer insights from outside the building are (rightfully) a jungle. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

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