The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Jenna Gaudio discusses her struggles with finding a product management tool that balances both high-level strategy and detailed task management. Subscribe for more expert insights from leading product managers: [link] P.S.

Product Manager

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Shift from fixed yearly planning to rolling quarterly reviews to allow flexibility in roadmap decisions. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned.

Vision

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? Some situations require assertive leadership. Organizational Strategy and Product Leadership Product leadership is about more than managing a backlog. Want the Strategy Tools That Take This Further?

Analytic Tools

Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Do I push back?

Product Research

The Product Guy

AUGUST 12, 2025

Most roadmaps do not fail from bad ideas. That is why the second article in our Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact series turns to a core leadership challenge: strategy and planning. That is why the second article in our Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact series turns to a core leadership challenge: strategy and planning.

Strategy

Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. But instead of telling a clear, compelling story, they send out a spec or share a roadmap deckand hope it gets read. Example: Why: Remote teams waste time switching between disconnected tools.

Data Visualization

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. Saying yes is easy. Saying no is what separates strategic product leaders from the rest.

Leadership

Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. BuildNest is a comprehensive wellness platform that offers physical, mental, and financial wellbeing tools to employees, while giving employers and healthcare providers a HIPAA-compliant, 360-degree view of health trends across large populations. Their tool of choice?

Product Strategy

The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Advanced Tactics: Stakeholder Mapping: Use tools like the Stakeholder Alignment Blueprint (available on jonihoadley.com) to identify key goals and concerns. Tailor Your Communication: Adapt your messaging for different audiences, whether its engineering teams or senior leadership. Click here to download.

Data Visualization

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Are the right tools applied? First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product.

Systems Review

Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

What WellNest needed wasn’t another roadmap or velocity boost. It promised to help employers and healthcare providers support employee WellNest with physical and financial tools. Create: Prioritize, align, and build a strategic roadmap. They needed clear, customizable ways to show WellNest program ROI to their leadership.

Product Research

The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

Youve aligned the roadmap. Read it now on The Product Way Patreon : [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. Youve got the stakeholders in the room.

Leadership

The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. This new Patreon-exclusive article in the Roadmap to Mastery series explores how to lead prioritization with structure, confidence, and buy-in. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard.

Technical Review

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. As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans. Rule 1: Trust the Roadmap Roadmaps are your comfort zone.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

If your current metrics are not enough, consider revising them by asking yourself: Are leadership and all functional teams in agreement on which metrics matter most? So for most companies, purchasing an analytics tool is a better option than building one from scratch. Use it to identify gaps in your current setup and solve them.

Data Visualization

Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

Technology Roadmap Figure out the dev stack, the product backlog tools (Jira vs. Aha?), The Product Ops Power Move Most big M&A sprees result in Frankenstein processesdifferent roadmaps, templates, product lifecycles, all living under one corporate roof. and how quickly you can merge them with your current methods.

Technical Review

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Below, Hilary Gridley , director of product management at WHOOP, shares strategies she’s learned to leverage the latest AI tools to not just become a better manager but to level up her entire team. These tactics and tools are practical and actionable, and you can start experimenting with them today, even if you’re not managing.

User Testing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

But without the right guidance and tools, its easy to get stuck in the weeds or miss critical opportunities. Building Relationships Across Teams As a product manager, your success relies on collaboration with stakeholders from engineering, design, marketing, and leadership. The good news? You dont have to figure it all out on your own.

Strategy

The Product Guy

AUGUST 3, 2025

This shift is exactly why we’re launching a new Roadmap to Mastery series on The Product Way: Product + AI: The 8 Zones of Impact A 4-part deep dive into where AI is changing the game, and where it might be quietly eroding your team’s product judgment.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). ” Company roadmaps might be linear, but customer insights from outside the building are (rightfully) a jungle. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 29, 2025

AI-generated ideas filled the roadmap. Inside the Full Article This shift is just one of three structural changes I explore in the first deep-dive of Product + AI , a new strategic series within the Roadmap to Mastery Collection on The Product Way. Join The Product Way to access this article and the full Roadmap to Mastery library.

Product Research

The Product Guy

JULY 15, 2025

In this week’s Roadmap to Mastery article on The Product Way , I dive deep into the structural forces that cause even high-performing product teams to burn out and what you can do to stop it before it spirals. Join The Product Way to access this article and the full Roadmap to Mastery library. And it’s not personal weakness.

Roadmap

The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2025

In todays product environment, questions are your sharpest tool for uncovering user needs, guiding teams, and influencing outcomes. In our newest Patreon-exclusive Roadmap to Mastery article , we explore: The types of questions that unlock clarity across customers, teams, and stakeholders.

Strategy

DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

Secondly, research teams have gotten better at proving their value to leadership, often tying insights to revenue-impacting decisions. Where the Budget Goes: People, Participants, Platforms The report shows that most research budgets are spent in three main areas: headcount (32%), participant recruitment (20%), and tools/platforms (19%).

Data Visualization

Alchemer Mobile

JULY 1, 2025

In a recent episode of Behind the Strategy: CX Leadership in Action , Alchemer CMO Bo Bandy sat down with Company Sage CEO Andrew Pierce and COO Jeff Cummings to unpack how they’ve turned CX into a strategic advantage. Their support team personally follows up, logs the conversation, and shares insights with leadership.

Feedback Software

People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This guide distills the key lessons and actionable strategies from my journey, offering you a roadmap to navigate your own career pivots in the tech industry. Continuous Learning Loop : Utilize AI tools to track coaching and product trends and refine strategies. Action Step : Explore one AI tool relevant to your field.

Data Visualization

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Read it now: [link] Exclusive Access to Mastery This post is part of the Roadmap to Mastery Collection , a premium series on The Product Way Patreon. A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. How are you preparing for the future of product leadership? Ready to future-proof your PM career?

Technical Review

BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

One of the critical tools that can help product managers improve customer satisfaction is the SERVQUAL model or Customer Service Gap model , a framework for identifying and addressing gaps in service delivery. For example, you may have misaligned roadmaps or inconsistent feature prioritisation that doesn’t reflect customer expectations.

Data Visualization

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.” By using a customer journey map as a framing tool, you are constantly reminding yourself and everyone else that the secret to creating value for customers lies within the customer’s experience.

Customer Experience

BrainMates

JUNE 15, 2025

Product leaders are quick to invest in tools, platforms, and tech upgrades but often overlook the human capability needed to bring those technologies to life. Because the future of product leadership isn’t just about systems, it’s about the people who power them. It’s Human. How Do We Fix It?

Technical Review

People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Try this exercise: Take your current roadmap and ask "Why?" As AI reshapes product management, view it as a tool for acceleration rather than a threat. Use an AI tool of choice and ask it to: Analyze large user feedback data sets to identify patterns and prioritize feature requests. three times for each initiative.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. The plan or roadmap is basically an ordered list of projects based on some notion of prioritization and sequence of delivery.

Strategy

The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This tool is designed to help you map out your role in decision-making within your team, so you can navigate with confidence and a crystal-clear sense of purpose. Whether it’s crafting an executive summary, updating the roadmap, or sending a quick email to flag an issue, your goal is to get everyone aligned and poised for action.

Product Manager

Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition. Apply Here 3.

Research Software

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

Collaboration often breaks down due to misalignment, unclear roles, and disconnected tools. It requires intention, empathy, clear structures, and the right tools. It is not always obvious who has the final say Tool sprawl. This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference.

Product Research

The Product Guy

APRIL 16, 2025

Innovation doesnt mean chasing every idea or launching fast for the sake of it. It means creating space for experiments, reflection, and learning – even when things dont go as planned.

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