Tyner Blain

MARCH 2, 2025

Leadership tells us the big projects they’ve decided to do, it’s up to us to elaborate and execute.” ” This is a common situation for a lot of product managers. It is bounded, but it is present. Once that awareness is present, the customer shifts into shopping and buying a solution.

Customer Experience

The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks.

Customer Feedback

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

An individual adept at owning and driving roadmap strategy and definition, with a track record of end-to-end product delivery. A professional experienced in feature delivery and making trade-offs to meet product goals. A person who was given little decision-making power as a product manager.

Research Software

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. A product leader ready to take on a challenge to grow a long-standing underdog product.

Analytic Tools

Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

While GenAI presents clear benefits for data analysis and document processing, its unpredictable nature requires strict guardrails. By involving both product and tech teams early in the planning process, organizations can ensure smoother execution and avoid costly misalignment. Digital transformation efforts are 5.8

Reporting Tools

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 23, 2025

A/B testing) Product sense and business metrics Communication and stakeholder management Less emphasis on advanced ML algorithms ⚙️ Common job titles: Data Scientist, Product Analyst, Business Data Scientist Full Stack Data Scientist These roles require strong ML chops and a solid business and product strategy.

Data Visualization

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Melissa Appel unpacks The Founders Guide to What Product Teams Need , clarifying the often-misunderstood relationship between leadership and product teams. Greg Baugues challenges assumptions with AI Youve Been Doing It All Wrong , shifting perspectives on artificial intelligence and product development.

Artificial Inteligence

Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

There are high potential leadership development programs But if we look a little bit more deeply into the organization, let’s assume all those great high potential people become the future C suite people, who’s gonna move into those next higher level jobs. I’m going through all this leadership training. A behavior.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

Weak Development Team

Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A four-layer framework to create a winning product strategy Today we are talking about creating product strategy. Bob is the author of the book Creative Strategy Generation. I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Our guest is Bob Caporale.

Product Strategy

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Facilitating better team collaboration.

Leadership

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2022

Feature launches, product strategy presentations, workshops, and more Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

Presentation

Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

Keep the other groups in Figure 1 informed about changes in the product strategy and product roadmap , for example, by inviting subjects to bigger review/demo sessions and having one-on-ones with context setters. A better way is to co-create the product strategy and roadmap with the key stakeholders.

Roadmap

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

Leadership

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Product teams must understand not just the immediate impact of a new feature but also how it will evolve within a dynamic market over months or years. How Thinking Bigger Elevates Your Product Strategy By applying systems thinking, product managers can craft more resilient and long-term strategies.

Feedback Software

Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

Reporting Tools

Product Innovation Educators

MAY 1, 2023

Before co-founding Product Growth Leaders, his product management consulting company, he was a Pragmatic Marketing lead instructor for over 15 years. Now he empowers product teams with training and coaching that remove the chaos from product strategy and planning.  Have the “how do we do things here?”

Product Manager

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader. There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. 1] While I hope that this makes sense to you, I find that in practice, the different strategies are sometimes confused.

Research Software

Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

In addition to my formal coaching of product leaders (Directors, VPs and CPOs who directly manage teams of product managers), I talk with lots of senior individual contributors about the risks and challenges of moving “up the ladder” into product leadership roles. So I have a strong sense of what product managers want.

Leadership

Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2018

Map Your Products to the Lifecycle. You need to map each of your products to the lifecycle. This then gives you the objectives and investment required for each of them – which is the start of a product strategy. You Have to Kill Some Products. Present yourself as someone who brings people together.

Leadership

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

Product Strategy

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

With such hyper-growth, there’s been an ever-growing need to scale the way we do product. In this article, I’m going through the approach that I recently introduced at Miro and is currently at the heart of how we center ourselves around the product strategy. Teams improve their presentation and storytelling skills.

Product Research

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Ken leads the product team at SEEK Asia with the mission of improving people’s lives through better careers and helping organisations hire great talent. Workshop Presenters.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 9, 2021

Product demos . Q&A with product leaders on our product strategy. Presenting skills. We all learn differently, and it’s difficult to be “on” all the time – listening to presentation after presentation can be tiring. Some new sessions we’ve implemented along the way include: .

Feedback Software

Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

Product Manager

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This can make managing expectations difficult, especially when dealing with senior leadership. Understanding Stakeholder Dynamics Stakeholders in product management aren’t just limited to your direct team; they encompass leadership, cross-functional teams, customers, and even external partners.

Customer Feedback

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

Product Research

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. But the actual work of product strategy is neither straightforward nor glamorous, and often leaves ample room for misaligned expectations.

Product Manager

Mind the Product

MAY 31, 2019

For the third time MTP Engage brought together product people from Germany and further afield – this year in a packed three-day agenda. Day 1: Leadership Forum. We started with the first-ever MTP Leadership Forum in Hamburg , a decidedly intimate event for 40 product leaders. Day 3: Conference.

Workshop

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies had to shift their product strategy. They had to shift their product strategy. We’ve also explored resilient leadership with ProductPlan’s CEO, as well. For Tan, that meant shifting her attention from innovative product leadership to financial analysis. “My Assess and Defend.

Product Strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

Strategy

Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 23, 2021

I am sharing this episode now because Steve Johnson, who is also a business partner with Grant, did a masterful job at the Summit, describing the real nature of product management. As this was a Summit presentation, the format of the show notes below are a bit different. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:55]

Research Software

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. In addition, setting the proper expectations with leadership is a key element for managing your stakeholders. That enables you to ask leadership what they want to change.

Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

What Is Servant-Leadership? Servant-leadership means that “one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead,” writes Robert Greenleaf , the creator of the servant-leadership model. Caring for the followers, the people we work with, is present in other leadership models, too.

Leadership

Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

Weak Development Team

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment, to what is actually happening. I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Be present and fully engage in what you do—or don’t do it. I am not suggesting that you should ignore the difficulties that present themselves.

Product Manager