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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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Product managers must address these factors to ensure the product aligns with changing market conditions and customer needs, even as the company evolves. Proactively addressing these risks can also build trust with leadership and increase buy-in for new initiatives.

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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 Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When my plans to delete were deleted I’ve tried many tactics to make space for ‘maintenance’ activities on product roadmaps, including declarative statements like ‘40% goes to product health’ backed by capacity plans. Value targets so enticing that executive leadership wouldn’t dare vote them down. They never work. I was pissed.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? These practices are promoted as essential for success.

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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.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

PM with a technical background and a strong product sense. Someone with a more traditional PM experience. A person without a formal leadership title. PM looking for a by-the-book product manager role. 10+ years of experience in consulting, operations, or project management. 3+ years of people management experience.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2025

A practical framework for fostering safe, small experiments Ideas for encouraging learning while balancing delivery Case studies from real product teams navigating change and uncertainty Part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection – available exclusively on The Product Way Patreon Unlock the article now: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This (..)

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. Candidates short profile Aleksandra has experience driving product strategy, user experience, and feature prioritization in mobile game development.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategy Strategy plays a crucial role in aligning product development efforts with organizational goals. Design and Development Design and development focus on the actual creation of products, encompassing both the creative and technical aspects.

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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. Whats Inside the Full Article?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 18, 2025

Neglecting either side leads to failure—either insecure products or crippled user experiences. Previously, she was the CPO at Robinhood, spent 12 years at Google, and is also on the board of eBay and Capital One. You must simultaneously solve for governance, security, and auditability.

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

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This approach avoids making AI a last-minute addition and instead enables it to drive innovation and enhance the user experience, meeting evolving customer expectations. To keep customers at the center of your AI strategy, collaborate with your data and UX teams and evaluate how your customers interact with your products.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

Three Types of Leadership. Scrum is a simple framework with three roles: product owner, development team, and Scrum Master. Each role provides a distinct type of leadership. As the product owner, you lead the product and are responsible for its overall success. Lead the Product.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In product ecosystems, this means that one small tweak to a feature can have significant effects on other features, user experience, or even marketing strategies. 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.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For example, the marketer has to create the marketing strategy, and the development teams have to design and build the product. For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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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.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. In other words, involve the key stakeholders in product discovery and product development work.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

My Journey Transitioning from Engineering to Product Management. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. 4 Key Differences in Skills Engineer to Product Manager.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. Most product strategies don’t cover all of this.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to deep product skills, you require generic, transferable product management capabilities, such as, effectively capturing the product’s value proposition , segmenting the market , validating product strategy assumptions , selecting the right KPIs , prioritising the product backlog , and analysing user feedback and data.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Product strategies help you design and grow your products.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:58] What are your responsibilities as a Chief Product Officer?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

For an end-user-facing product, this usually requires a UX designer, an architect/programmer, and a tester/QA engineer to be members of the product team, as Figure 1 shows. [2] Such a team, however, lacks the expertise to make all product decisions, especially strategic ones. Here are three common ones.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Here are key criteria to consider: Strategic fit with company objectives Sales potential and market size Competitive landscape User experience and customer value Technical feasibility and complexity Financial metrics (e.g., Project Selection Criteria for Innovation Choosing the right projects for your innovation portfolio is critical.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

But to take advantage of new and existing digital assets, align them with physical products and services and create a seamless user experience, and increase the overall value created, companies require product professionals—dedicated, qualified product people who look after the digital assets.

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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.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Each area had a key user outcome that it was seeking to drive.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Previously, he was a design leader at Uber, and before that the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of about.me.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

specifically newly launched feature, how to reduce the churn rate, how to increase overall product adoption, how to upsell/ cross sell to existing customers, etc. The identification of metric is driven by the goal to be achieved, which is mainly guided by the product strategy and leadership within the organization.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Product Festival Venue: Virtual Date: TBD At this one-day virtual conference, gain valuable insights from some of the top product experts globally on making your users satisfied and excelling in product leadership. It features workshops, keynote speeches, and networking opportunities for product thinkers.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. All of them are accountable for a squad (about five developers and one user experience professional).

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