The Product Guy

JULY 19, 2025

Leadership shows up when there is no obvious answer : The best product leaders offer clarity through process, not performance. Go Deeper: 20 Tools to Lead Through Uncertainty This month’s recap is our most advanced yet and it is available exclusively to Practitioner and higher-tier members of The Product Way. to “How certain are we?”

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Whether these are separate roles in your organization or combined in your position, what steps could you take to improve the handoff between strategic product management and tactical development work, especially with the assistance of AI tools?

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level. The Future of PM Leadership As we approach 2025, product management roles are transforming.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In this episode, he shares some insights from that workshop and his experience in product leadership. Atif has spent 25 years working in both Silicon Valley and Fortune 500 companies, including leadership roles at Amazon, McDonald’s (as their first Chief Digital Officer), Volvo, and MGM Resorts.

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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?

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The Product Guy

JULY 7, 2025

In this episode of How I PM, Joni Hoadley, product management coach and consultant, shares how to turn your roadmap into a strategic leadership tool. If your roadmap is just a list of features and delivery dates, you’re missing the point.

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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. How to Build a Product Storyboard (Without Being a Designer) You dont need a design background or fancy tools. Example: Why: Remote teams waste time switching between disconnected tools.

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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.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

The conversation tackled two questions that are defining modern product leadership: How do you make coaching actually work inside product teams How do you embed discovery into everyday work without burning people out or wasting time If you are building product with a team right now, these challenges probably feel familiar. Applying it is.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this episode of “ Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success ,” Jenna Gaudio explains how product managers can harness tension as a tool to get to the root of issues and keep teams focused on the right goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Make switching easier Allow parallel use with existing tools and automate data migration from competitors.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2025

We could experiment with any number of tools, like Lovable, Windsurf, Replit, or Cursor. The goal was to choose a project, choose an AI tool, and build something usable – fast. Choosing the right AI tool for the job Over the next two weeks, in small focused bursts, Daria, Tanya, and I continued refining our prototype.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Invest in the Right Tools and Resources No one succeeds in product management alone. The tools and resources you use can make or break your ability to deliver. It’s a space where product managers can access practical tools, actionable insights, and a supportive community to help navigate the challenges of our profession.

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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. Use them to triage requests.

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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? On Leading Hybrid Product Teams: Hybrid isnt just about tools – its a design problem.

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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.

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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?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 12, 2025

Read the full article: [link] Your subscription unlocks: Weekly deep dives on product leadership and decision-making Proven tools and case studies to strengthen your execution Access to mentorship and resume reviews at higher tiers What’s the hardest “no” you’ve had to deliver as a PM — and what did you learn from it?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Case Study: Improving Data-Driven Decision Making for CSR Leadership Civian is a data-driven platform designed to help businesses measure, optimize, and showcase the social and economic impact of their investments in communities. comparison tools and filtering methods). We proposed 4 high-impact solutions through prototypes on Figma.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 3, 2025

A growing library of frameworks, case studies, and actionable tools. You need a coalition shared purpose, mutual trust, and real support behind your product vision. As a Patron, youll gain access to: Weekly updates with strategies designed to help PMs thrive. Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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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.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Be Transparent and Honest About the Help You Get Using AI tools like ChatGPT can be valuable, but use them as you would in your actual job — as a helper function, not to do the work for you. Similarly, consulting with friends or experts can be beneficial, but only if that’s a tool you’d use in the real world too.

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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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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.

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Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

It promised to help employers and healthcare providers support employee WellNest with physical and financial tools. They needed clear, customizable ways to show WellNest program ROI to their leadership. The Breaking Point: When Shipping ≠ Progress WellNest Health’s flagship product, BuildNest, was built on good intentions.

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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.

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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). monetization, onboarding, internal tooling, virality, technical debt. ). “Fairness” isn’t coming. The good news is that great PMs are making it work.

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The Product Guy

JULY 1, 2025

Use Click-Through Prototypes Build quick, navigable flows in Maze or similar tools. Michael’s Four Keys to Testing Before You Build: Run Painted Door Experiments Present a clickable version of a future feature. If users engage, follow up with questions. If not, you just saved a sprint. You’ll identify bugs and surprises early.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. Alternatively, if you already have access to clean data from your workflow tools, you can use that data along with survey data. You can use any surveying tool to do this—Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Typeform, etc.—just Are these calculations perfect?

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