Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

He shares practical insights from the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) framework and explains how product managers can use these principles to improve their product development process. Jack brings 20 years of experience managing innovation projects at companies like Sony Ericsson and Logitech.

User Testing

The Product Guy

JULY 19, 2025

Watch the Full Roundtable Or keep reading for the full recap and a preview of the exclusive 20-framework strategy guide available to members of The Product Way. We put together a complete strategy breakdown with 20 frameworks, real-world examples, and targeted guidance for both PMs and CPOs. Want to go deeper?

Product Research

The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles? Want the Frameworks to Apply These Lessons? We developed a series of exclusive frameworks and step-by-step strategies to help you turn these insights into action.

Customer Feedback

Roman Pichler

JULY 7, 2025

What the product vision shouldn’t be, though, is a strategic decision-making framework. This would not only detract from its main objective, but it would also cause it to overlap with the product strategy and make it unstable. 1] A useful tool for this is my Product Vision Board , shown in Figure 1.

Vision

Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Atif brings valuable insights from a recent PDMA executive workshop where leaders discussed their real-world challenges with strategic decision making and innovation strategy. The methods and frameworks we discussed can help product leaders work through strategic challenges more effectively.

Data Visualization

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. As Chandra shares below, his framework sits on top of the best strategy wisdom out there (e.g. What exactly is product strategy?

Strategy

Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When strategy is unclear, anchor yourself in how your company creates value. You might find that while the strategy isn’t written in stone, it’s written in the choices your company makes every day. Your goal isn’t to write the perfect company strategy – it’s to understand it well enough to build products that matter.

Strategy

Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

Reporting Tools

The Product Guy

JUNE 12, 2025

Inside the article: Why “no” is often the right answer, but rarely the comfortable one Five failure patterns that emerge when PMs avoid conflict and overcommit A practical framework for turning “no” into a confident, credible decision Sample phrasing and mindset shifts to manage executive pressure and team expectations A case study showing how one (..)

Leadership

The Product Guy

JUNE 17, 2025

Before we dive into the highlights… Want the full, enhanced recap with strategy tools you can use right now? You can get access to all of it on The Product Way Patreon plus weekly content including: product frameworks, case studies, deep dives, and more!

Analytic Tools

Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Recommended Templates Product Strategy & Roadmap Review : Uncover your biggest alignment gaps. Download our PM Leader First 90 Days Pack an 88-page bundle brimming with frameworks, templates, and checklists. Then evaluate each request against that yardstick. Its not random denial; its outcomes-based prioritization.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

About “ Product+AI “ This article is part of Product + AI , a new series for product people who want to cut through the hype and apply AI effectively in their product management practice. Each deep-dive article delivers practical advice, actionable frameworks, and product strategies you can use immediately.

Product Research

Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2024

No Alignment To Customer Strategy The second issue with conventional product marketing courses is their lack of alignment with the overall product strategy, which reflects the customer’s strategic priorities. It results in messaging and marketing programs that are too generic and irrelevant to the customer’s real needs.

Product Marketing

The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

Visionary products and companies succeed by rejecting rigid frameworks and embracing the unknown. If youre stuck in cycles of roadmap success, product failure, its time to reassess the rules youre following. Did Amazon optimize around static KPIs, or did they constantly experiment with business models that defied expectations?

Customer Feedback

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 (..)

Leadership

The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Inside the article: Why prioritization remains difficult even with tools like RICE How to use RICE to align teams and make transparent trade-offs Common pitfalls and how to avoid them A real-world case study showing how one team used RICE to streamline planning, improve collaboration, and increase retention What Youll Learn: How to apply RICE as a (..)

Technical Review

BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

The framework breaks down product strategy into four anchor points: NOW – Product Intelligence: Where are we now? HOW – Product Strategy: What are our guiding choices and priorities to get there? WHEN – Product Roadmap: What is the sequence of big bets, initiatives, and outcomes we will deliver?

Weak Development Team

The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Watch Pedros episode: [link] Joni Hoadley : #HowIPM Ideate in Less than a Day Joni Hoadley, Product Manager Coach & Consultant, shares a 5-step workshop framework to go from sticky-note chaos to aligned priorities and test-ready ideasin a single afternoon. Thats where the roadmap reveals itself.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Establish a framework. Define clear criteria for identifying what you will retire and how you will prioritize features for retirement — for example, low usage, high maintenance costs, out-of-line with the strategy, etc. Make sure the framework includes steps to identify, measure, execute, and reverse deletion if needed.

Roadmap

The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 22, 2025

This blog dives deep into: How AI is revolutionizing core PM functions The top AI-powered tools every PM should know The future skillset of the AI-native product manager Let’s explore how to stay ahead in this AI-first world. Market Research: From Manual to Machine-Learned Market research has always been a cornerstone of product strategy.

Artificial Inteligence

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In our latest Patreon-exclusive article , part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , we explore: Why trust is now a product featurenot just a brand value. Actionable strategies to integrate trust into your product strategy. As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive.

Differentiation

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 25, 2025

Some takeaways: There is no universal marketing playbook: The most successful companies, like OpenAI and Stripe, didn’t follow existing playbooks but created their own unique approaches tailored to their products, customers, and market conditions.

Analytic Tools

Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

Their research team wanted to develop an app to test its hypothesis about eating disorder treatment, and our developers utilized machine learning framework, third-party API integrations, and a modern tech stack (Rails, React Native, React) to create a clinical-trial ready app in eight months.

Analytic Tools

Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 31, 2024

( 43:29 ) Question four: Am I really listening? (

B2B

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2025

They require balancing diplomacy, data, and leadership under pressure.

Customer Satisfaction

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2025

Positioning is not product strategy. AI is reshaping how products are built, but it’s also reshaping how they need to be positioned. Proof-of-concept revenue doesn’t mean the solution is delivering real, long-term value. First-call sales stories matter. Want to explore more from April Dunford’s conversation?

Positioning

Productside

JULY 29, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training What Is Good Product Strategy? That disconnect (between what ships and why it should matter) is the direct result of skipping the hard work of a good product strategy and rushing straight to feature sequencing. Sound familiar? The prescription? It’s theatre.”

Product Strategy

Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

Let's talk about your operating model Modus Create > Insights > Blog Posted in Product Share this Jill Antweiler Jill Antweiler has over 20 years of experience wearing many hats, helping companies build amazing products.

Product Research

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategy Strategy plays a crucial role in aligning product development efforts with organizational goals. Process The process knowledge area covers the various methodologies and frameworks used to guide product development from idea to market.

User Testing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

The role of the Hybrid Product Manager is taking center stage in 2025. The product management world is being reshaped, and its not just because of AI or remote work or whatever new frameworks trending on LinkedIn this week. Its something more foundational: how we define what makes a great Product Manager.

Research Software

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? (..)

Framework

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. As Karen Holtzblatt emphasises in her Contextual Design framework: “An insight without an action is incomplete.”

Data Visualization

airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Lucid Software’s Chief Product Officer Dan Lawyer offers a metaphor that reframes how we think about product strategy and product roadmap disruption, direction, and progress. “But I learned a framework and a model that helped me understand it as being actually a helpful and desirable part of how a business runs.”Â

Feedback Software