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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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

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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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. In this thought-provoking episode, youll gain: A framework for refining product-market fit without unnecessary pivots.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Customers dont care about data structures. Why Storyboarding Works A storyboard is just a sequence of visuals that shows how a user moves from a problem to a solution. Share it with leadership. They care about impact.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[ You don’t have to be a line manager to lead others.

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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. Our Process To make our interviews more fruitful, we established specific research objectives.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. 2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?"

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. We often hear about this transition from members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community who are new to leadership roles and either write in with questions or step in to share their experiences. The list got pretty long quickly—like 20 issues,” says Trevor.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, product managers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. Often, these requests are made without supporting data or customer feedback, which can create tension between PMs and top-level executives.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leadership or investors push for short-term wins that conflict with the roadmap. Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Run structured stakeholder sessions to ensure leadership, engineering, and marketing teams remain aligned. Full breakdown in the Patreon recap!

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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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Productside

JUNE 17, 2025

Customers were disengaged. It’s built around five phases: Context: Understand your business, market, and customer landscape. Investigate: Learn what your customers actually need through research. Define: Prototype and test potential solutions before scaling. But growth stalled. Executives were frustrated.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 19, 2025

The companies leading in sustainability arent just meeting ESG goals; theyre cutting operational costs, improving brand trust, and increasing customer loyalty. Companies are extending product usability through upgradability, reducing waste while maintaining a strong customer experience. Impact-driven sustainability wins.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • Vanta —Automate compliance. While AI models will continue to improve, the real “moat” around your product lies in your ability to listen to users and iterate quickly. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , and YouTube.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Drew explains how, early in his career, he spent too much time making assumptions and building features before validating them with users. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway.

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Product Talk

JUNE 11, 2025

We explored a few characteristics to look out for when selecting your pilot teams, including the relationships among the team members, their mindset and willingness to learn, and their access to customers. They’re not talking to customers regularly. Not unreliable tests, right? And they’re moving pretty slowly.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

If your buyer is another product manager, treat them like an external customer. One participant worried: Leadership is anti-product. Rogers take : Win them over with real user insights. If they see your decisions are driven by actual market feedback, youll start earning trust. Roger : Absolutely. Do I push back?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

But others find it hard to no longer be actively involved in making product decisions, regularly talking to users, engaging the stakeholders, and working with development teams. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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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. Theyve been asked to come back with a strategy that delivers more value to customers and drives measurable business growth. Heather knows something has to change.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 7, 2025

If you’re interested in social impact product management, this episode offers key insights on building user-centric solutions. Long-Term Impact: Why social impact products must serve users beyond short-term success. Long-Term Impact: Why social impact products must serve users beyond short-term success.

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The Product Guy

MAY 30, 2019

Which change in users’ behaviour do we want to drive? Hypotheses are only useful if we test them (with customers), to validate or discard them. As a team who decides to research which new features to develop, we first want to define our business outcomes and key results (OKR), together with our problem statement.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Early in her career, Francesca encountered this phrase alongside the common description of product management as sitting at the intersection of business, user experience, and technology. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

His insights are grounded in decades of hands-on leadership across engineering, business development, and product strategyand his take on innovation is both practical and bold. Joeri makes it clear: the future of innovation is human-centered, customer-driven, and iterative by design.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Tweet This And while you technically don’t need permission to get started, at some point, you will need buy-in and support from your leadership. We spoke with User Research Director Niklas Fischerström and Chief Product Officer Francesca Cortesi to learn how they’ve worked together to roll out continuous discovery habits at Hemnet.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company. The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. Today the product is very successful.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

Discussing product leadership and challenges, Orly shares her unconventional path into product, the lessons she learned turning around a failed product, and how she builds high-performing teams in global tech companies. Product Leadership Through Challenges Nicole: That was incredibly boldand it really paid off. Feedback is critical.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 25, 2024

How product managers can empower their teams Today we are talking about how product leaders can create more effective teams by using a people-first leadership approach. Her approach to product leadership empowers individuals, fosters collaboration, and connects with people in an authentic way. It’s a great icebreaker.

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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 Talk

MARCH 20, 2024

April 2nd: Continuous Interviewing: Unlock the Power of Story-Based Customer Interviews This webinar is designed to help you better understand what a good customer interview looks like. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world. Register here. Register here.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. They might even have regular steps in their processes that remind them to put their users’ needs first. It’s more about looking for new ways to collect insights from users, uncover underlying assumptions, and explore the opportunity space.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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