The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With AI automating workflows and tools making data analysis seamless, what will truly set product managers apart in 2025? While technical skills are still essential, the ability to influence, negotiate, tell compelling stories, and lead with empathy is now a critical differentiator. So, what does this shift mean for product managers?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But in today’s fast-paced world, your customer support can only be as effective as the technology that underpins it. Study after study shows that the vast majority of support teams are unhappy with their current customer support tech stacks. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide. Is your tech stack ready?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for Product Managers. He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical product manager ). By default it uses specific frameworks called Next.js This is all possible, and you’ll learn how.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Learn Targeted Skills in Small Chunks On the Go Today, Product Management University announced the availability of 15 new micro learning courses for high technology product managers in B2B. Product Management University micro learning courses are offered in live virtual, onsite and on-demand e-learning formats.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

We use UXDAs Digital Experience Branding Framework to help ambitious financial institutions build strong, future-ready digitalbrands. Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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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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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. Consider the rapid advancement of technology in recent decades. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 12, 2025

In this Roadmap to Mastery article from The Product Way Patreon , we focus on one of the most essential, high-stakes skills in product management: knowing when and how to say no — and making that decision stick.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Having worked on a number of large technology programmes involving the selection and management of strategic suppliers, I wanted to share my perspectives from the ‘buy side’ on how to build effective partnerships. They provide the opportunity to rationalise your supplier base, reducing risk, complexity and management overhead.

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

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

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. I find that the framework is best suited for products that are affected by a significant amount of uncertainty and change.

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UX Planet

MARCH 15, 2025

What began as an overwhelming experience, trying to grasp concepts and frameworks, has now turned into a passion project that Im eager to share with you. Why My AI Learning Approach is Different When I first began exploring AI, I quickly realized that most learning resources available online are heavily technical.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Hybrid work, AI integration, and rising customer demands are reshaping product management. A real-world case study of how strategic influence drove a 20% increase in engagement and reduced technical debt. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Whats Inside the Article?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers). As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive. Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

1] Figure 1: A Product Strategy System You can use the model in Figure 1 to review and improve your current product strategy approach. If extended product teams own the product strategies, whats the role of the head of product , also called Chief Product Officer and Director/VP of Product Management, in making strategic decisions ?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 20, 2022

But when we make technical decisions, we like to be conservative. In practice, being technically conservative looks like reusing existing technologies and frameworks in our stack, or promoting tried and tested patterns and solutions. Here, Waheed discusses our engineering principle “Be technically conservative”.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, when a citizen fills out an online application to renew their driving license, the application is reviewed by an agent or case officer who processes it further. Digital architects design the technical framework, ensuring that all components work together efficiently.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

So I’ve been on the hunt for a framework that actually helps you measure and increase your velocity. Core 4 pulls everything they’ve learned from working with thousands of teams into a single unified developer productivity framework. Still, even with these useful frameworks, many organizations feel lost.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

Outcome-Driven Innovation – for Product Managers Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR Tony Ulwick, creator of Jobs-to-Be-Done, introduces Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI), a revolutionary approach to product management. Building the ODI Framework After the PCjr setback, Ulwick moved from engineering to product planning at IBM.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2021

According to one Microsoft Global State of Customer Service report , 90% of consumers surveyed said that customer service is an important factor in their choice of, and loyalty to, a brand, while nearly two-thirds (58%) would sever their relationship with a business due to poor customer service. Invest in the right tools and frameworks.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

So, how can product managers proactively build and protect trust in their products? A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. 1-on-1 Support spanning personalized mentorship and resume reviews (available at higher tiers). Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

This has been challenging to navigate as there are not many resources available on how to manage not only a maturing product but the changes that come with rapid organisational growth. The founders have filled the role of product manager since the company was conceived and it is difficult for them to hand that management over.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Skills to move from product manager to Chief Product Officer. They’ve developed an insights platform to facilitate collaboration between market researchers, UX professionals, marketing managers, and product leaders. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [6:11] Asking honest questions is really important.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints. The sales and management teams wanted us to deliver the entire product at the launch.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. There are various types of e-learning apps, each designed to serve different educational needs and preferences: Learning Management Systems (LMS): With these platforms, you create and manage educational courses or training programs.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Guest post by Rebecca Monfries, Head of Delivery at Terem Technologies, and Nathan Bruce, Lead Business Analyst at Terem Technologies. During Definition you want to focus on moving past the discovery concepts, making detailed choices (about tech, design and requirements) and obtaining enough clarity to start developing solutions.

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