Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser. Measure outcomes.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The discussion explores practical applications of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude in product development, including MVP refinement, customer testing, and marketing content creation. Product managers can use AI to help make their tests simpler. This methodology helps teams identify the core value proposition quickly.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. Anya also is mentor at 500 Startups and a teacher of product management for Northwestern University.

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The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

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

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Shes just come out of a leadership briefingand its not good news. Internally, executive leadership is frustratedand pointing fingers at Product Management. Through their journey, youll gain practical, real-world insights to help your own team move from reactive execution to strategic leadership. But getting there wont be easy.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The post Conversations, Conflict and Leadership – Roman Pichler on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? Customer advisory boards arent just for updates – they should be used to test ideas, validate direction, and catch misalignment early.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. Leadership Wants Massive Layoffs Symptom : Boss says, Fire half your product team. Solution : Contractors can fill immediate gaps, but for core product leadership, stable employees who carry domain expertise and relationships may be better. Solution : Use your 30-day intel.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Share it with leadership. Test if the story makes sense. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter. As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time. Show it to your team. Run it by a few customers.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

What’s the smallest thing we can deliver to test this idea? Whether you’re new to product management or stepping into leadership, the key is to keep learning and adapting. When faced with a long list of potential features or bug fixes, ask: What’s the problem we’re solving? How does this align with our overall goals?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

Key debate: How do you convince leadership that sustainability isnt just an ethical decision, but a business growth strategy? Building Durable Products: When to Reinvent vs. Retire Some products stand the test of time, while others become bloated or irrelevant. How do you decide whether to refine an existing product or move on?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

They’ve tested and learned which of their solutions or growth ideas are working and have not been afraid to shut down ones that aren’t and scale up ones that are. Walmart has tried a lot of things and been willing to test them and learn in the market what works. They’ve brought in robotics in some aspects of stocking.

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Product Talk

JUNE 11, 2025

And so this is where in our Identifying Hidden Assumptions course and our Assumption Testing course , we get into how you deconstruct your ideas into their underlying assumptions. How do you then run quick and dirty assumption tests that can still support decision-making ? Not unreliable tests, right? We just need practice.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. Additionally, working on the MVP would have allowed us to build, test and improve the product iteratively within the deadline.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Thats why we test. Explore our Optimal Product Management course to build the leadership skills, communication habits, and strategic mindset that modern PMs need to lead across functions. Guy applies it to team structure, workflows, and even workplace policies. As he puts it, We know that we dont know.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. To analyse your current product management skills, I recommend using the following three subsets: Tactical skills, strategic skills, and leadership skills, as the following picture shows. The third row contains the most important information.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Grow Your Leadership Skills. Validating solution ideas : Using, for example, product demos , usability tests, and A/B tests. For example, you might decide that as an intermediate step, you aim to manage a larger product and use this opportunity to develop your leadership skills and understanding of product roles.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What You’ll Learn: Fail Fast, Learn Fast: The value of testing quickly. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway. If youve ever wondered how to avoid wasted effort, this episode will provide the answers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. Too many focus only on tactics—getting the immediate conversion or winning the next A/B test. Is it a rivalry, or a desire to build something better?

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Mind the Product

MAY 24, 2022

Even in companies with profound product knowledge, they’re consistently asked to test those ideas in their daily routine. Read more » The post Why it’s never a good idea to test your idea appeared first on Mind the Product. Product Managers are bombarded with feature requests and ideas every day.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 18, 2025

By embracing wonder, we can transform our leadership approach and unlock our team's full potential. This disconnect illustrates how following a "recipe" for leadership without truly considering and adapting to your team can lead to undesired results. Authentic Wonder Test Wonder can be pursued or adopted inauthentically.

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Product Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

April 3rd: Identifying Hidden Assumptions: The Key to Faster Discovery Cycles Every week, I talk to people who can’t believe that product teams can really test multiple product ideas in the same week. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

His expertise is on leadership for innovation and business transformation. His most recent book is Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. That’s the problem we are trying to address in Beg Bet Leadership. [11:44] A lot of that experience is now in Big Bet Leadership.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. Additionally, it is based on my leadership work, especially my book How to Lead in Product Management. [2]

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. Both are true.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. The bias toward solutions was also due to a data-driven product approach and a strong A/B testing capability.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. If the wider strategy is unclear, high-level outcomes should be discussed with leadership first. What may help is to think about how we can test our assumptions. And we want to test these hypotheses with customers.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With our expert guests, Garrett Lang (PlateRate, Founder and President) and Amil Shah (RBC Capital Markets, Senior Product Manager) , we discussed strategies for balancing leadership pressures, navigating feature requests, and crafting a personal brand that opens doors to new opportunities.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Historically, we’ve asked product teams to deliver a fixed roadmap typically defined by leadership. It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 14, 2021

How product managers can succeed in innovation leadership. 19:24] What actions do successful innovation leaders take, and how do you see innovation leadership changing in the future? Today, they might be hiring new talent, testing new technology, or finding new solutions for customer research in a remote world.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

You can see from his intersection of product and business leadership experiences that he is the perfect person to help us better understand creating product strategy. After our successful tests, we had to scale globally. We enabled machine learning to test everything—the cancellation experience, copy, call to action, colors, etc.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2024

A/B testing analytics is a powerful tool for optimizing the performance of your product or website. But approaching experiments in your company can be quite risky and thus hard to justify for your leadership team—especially if you’re new to product analytics. They include: Controlled A/B testing. Head-to-head A/B testing.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Testing the Proto-Strategy. Simple task, right?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ First, they need to ensure that testing the tool is easy and can be used in a well-controlled environment. It also worked as a way to get leadership buy-in to where the team was heading overall.”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. More Articles by Roman Product Leadership in Scrum Why Product Owners Need Effective Scrum Masters Product Manager vs. Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. 68; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp. Consequently, it will be difficult to test the board and mitigate the risk that the product strategy is wrong. No Clear Business Goals.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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