The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

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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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Being a product manager often feels like solving a puzzle without all the pieces. Here are three actionable strategies to tackle some of the biggest hurdles product managers face today. Move From Tasks to Outcomes It’s easy to get caught up in day-to-day tasks, but the best product managers stay laser-focused on outcomes.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Taking charge of a product management team can feel like juggling flaming torchesthrilling, but also risky if you dont have the right game plan. Your product managers wonder if youll champion them. If your buyer is another product manager, treat them like an external customer. One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? Feature requests often distract from deeper needs – the best product managers dig until they find the real problem.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. Its a product strategy problem.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are one of the most popular frameworks that many companies use to define success; however, many product teams struggle to use them effectively. We sat down with Jeff Gothelf, Author and Leadership expert, to discuss his latest book, “Who Does What by How Much?”

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. To maximise the chances of finding the right people, team up with the Scrum Master and engage with line management and your sponsor. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. To maximise the chances of finding the right people, team up with the Scrum Master and engage with line management and your sponsor. Leadership at Multiple Levels.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. We often hear about this transition from members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community who are new to leadership roles and either write in with questions or step in to share their experiences. But that wasn’t very helpful.”

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 6, 2025

Known for her surgical writing style and no-BS frameworks, Wes returns to the pod to deliver a tactical master class on becoming a sharper, more persuasive communicator—at work, in meetings, and across your career. ” Managing up is about sharing your point of view: Don’t just ask your manager what to do.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Sustainability in Product Development: More Than Just an ESG Initiative Sustainability in product management isnt just about reducing waste. Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? C-suite buy-in requires a business-first framing.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Her journey from corporate product management to successful startup founder offers valuable lessons for product managers and innovators. Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 22, 2021

Read more » The post The PM Competency Framework: Making Product Management growth a team effort appeared first on Mind the Product. I had joined the Infrastructure and Operations ‘tribe’ as an Agile Coach and some of my fondest memories (both personally and professionally) were from working in my Agile Coach ‘chapter’.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms. Clear purpose helps teams navigate complexity and maintain focus.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together In Season 3 of Productside Stories , we sat down with Guy Gershoni , Head of Engineering at genesIT, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to build great products in todays complex tech environments.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

Saying no to leadership Prioritizing customer needs over politics Aligning cross-functional teams These challenges do not reflect a lack of skill. They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure. Most PMs struggle with three things at some point.

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The days of managing single, standalone products are coming to an end. Product managers who master ecosystem thinking will lead the next wave of innovation. We dive into this powerful habit in our latest Patreon-exclusive article , “ Navigating Product Ecosystems: The Future of Product Management in 2025.”

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In a similar fashion, AI is changing how product managers learn best practices, and it will all be for the better when you see the results. Common Scenarios Before & After AI Here are a few common product management scenarios that exemplify the stark difference between learning best practices before and with AI.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. I wanted to share with you the framework I use when doing this. I review strategies and roadmaps.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

He most recently ran Product Management, Marketing, and Partnerships across Square while reporting to the CEO. Over a nine-year tenure, he also held various General Manager roles with full P&L responsibility, including the flagship Point of Sale business. Subscribe now. But there is a reason for it, born of hard-won experience.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

A broken wheel can’t get any faster There is not much that is more challenging than managing a team, a business or a company. Break down standardised processes for all and everything Well, there’s nothing wrong about a framework, if you know how to handle and adapt it. In my opinion Product Management is not a single role.

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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. Note that including stakeholders on the product team replaces a traditional stakeholder management approach with a much more collaborative one. All self-managing teams I have worked with greatly benefited from an experienced coach.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

How established organizations can overcome barriers to digital transformation – for product managers Today we are exploring digital transformation in large organizations as well as other challenges leaders are facing in a digitally transforming business environment. There’s a tension between the external and the internal.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 1, 2023

Using product ops to standardize product management processes Today we are talking about product ops—what it is, if you need it, and how to get started. His market and technical savvy allowed his career to develop from Product Manager to Chief Marketing Officer.  Product ops is product management for product management.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2025

Inside the article: Why removal is harder than building, but often more valuable A four-stage subtraction audit to guide product teams How to identify features that are dragging performance, usability, or focus A case study showing how one team removed a low-use feature and saw engagement rebound What Youll Learn: How to evaluate feature usefulness (..)

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company.

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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. Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. But within a month, she felt like she was treading water.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 1, 2021

Powerful actions and mindsets to take product managers to the next level. This podcast is getting a new name to better reflect our objective here—helping product managers become product masters. Product managers are in a perfect role to become senior leaders and part of the C-suite. Ask yourself, What is my framework?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

My first foray into managing products started around 6 years ago. Now, I have the amazing responsibility of coaching other Product Managers. I’ve been on a journey when it comes to PM development frameworks. It’s designed to highlight at-a-glance how effective a Product Manager is and where growth opportunities are.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Decision-making is at the heart of product management, yet it remains one of the most challenging aspects of the role. of product managers identified competing objectives as a significant challenge, followed closely by insufficient time (50.8%) and lack of role clarity (35.0%). Ready to dive deeper into effective product leadership?

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times. The following sections explain how you can apply the framework.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2025

In our newest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery series, we explore: What makes experimentation actually work in a team setting How to help people take smart risks and learn from what doesnt go right Case studies where iteration, not perfection, led to lasting improvements in engagement and retention Whats Inside the Full Article? (..)

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:56]

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