BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations. At Brainmates you’ll often hear us say; “The Experience is The Product” How the Service Quality Gap Model Applies to Product Management 1.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Palantir, working as a forward-deployed engineer. His work at Palantir ranged from accelerating the Covid-19 response to applying AI to drug discovery to optimizing aircraft manufacturing at Airbus.

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UX Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Designers are hired to fix the interface, while the deeper issuesprocess inefficiencies, policy bottlenecks, brand erosion, product ecosystem inconsistency and a lack of strategic visionremain unaddressed. The approach to UX becomes reactive rather than proactive.

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Gocious Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

In todays world of constant flux, product managers face the formidable challenge of navigating volatile markets. Whether its shifting consumer preferences, unexpected policy changes, or disruptions in regional markets, agility has become the cornerstone of successful product management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 4, 2025

So many product managers? Seriously, though, there are apparently over a million product managers globally. PTO policy ) If you have ideas here, I’m all ears👂 What were the key inflection points in your journey to 1M subscribers? I know, right? But more importantly, my audience is much wider now.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 1, 2025

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2025

As a product manager, I know that even small friction points cause users to drop off. Use appropriate cache expiration policies. Optimizing a mobile app isnt just about fixing crashes or improving load times. The real challenge is shaping an experience that keeps users engaged and drives continuous growth.

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airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Here is our pick of the best agile tools and project management software around in 2025. By Andrei Tiburca Prioritization 29 May 2025 Why product teams fall behind (and how prioritization software can help) When it comes to prioritizing, product managers often rely on gut feelings, stakeholder stories, or their own interpretation of data.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on Product-Led Growth (PLG) and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in the PLG field Looking for a job in PLG companies?

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Product Culture

MARCH 12, 2025

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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Product Culture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. That’s often the case in my experience for businesses in finance, media, travel, insurance, and other verticals that traditionally don’t have product management groups, and where product management is not represented at the executive level.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Guest Post by: Chris Martens (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. As product managers, we have chosen a career path in which there are ever-changing demands on our attention. A product manager spends much of their time planning for the future. Scheduling Time For Yourself.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 23, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. > What do you like least about being a product manager? Bureaucracy is my least favorite part of Product Management. Even if you are an excellent Product Manager, you’re only as good as the environment you are in.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:41] What advice have you received that helped you think about how to have more successful influence in the organization? 18:21] What should product managers know before implementing a successful practice in a new company? 25:12] Accelerate risk and value.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 16, 2020

Just a few months ago, CMU MS in Product Management Program celebrated a very special day – 05/13/31. McElroy wrote a memorandum that gave birth to the field of Product Management. Jeff Lash VP and Group Director, Product Management Research @ Forrester. Teresa Torres Product Discovery Coach @ Product Talk.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

While articulating trade-off decisions, always use a visual approach As Product Managers, we have to make trade-off decisions almost daily. Have a communication policy outlined for your team There are so many enterprise tools available today ranging from email to instant messaging. to get alignment.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:04] You also need to overcome policy, process, and governance that was not built to accommodate innovation. Thank you for being an Everyday Innovator and learning with me from the successes and failures of product innovators, managers, and developers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Higher management feels the pressure of not getting projects out on time thereby having a considerable effect on the revenue of the company. Product managers feel that they are a part of the feature factory and not being able to concentrate on the vision and strategy of the product. Have you used the Shape Up method?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2019

Platform Product Managers Need Specific Skills. Platform product managers need specific skill sets in order to be excellent at their jobs: Software Engineering: With platforms, your product is code. Without having written code or being technically-minded, it can be hard to build really great platform products.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

How product managers can use AI to work more efficiently Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR AI is changing how we manage products and come up with new ideas, giving us new tools to work faster and be more creative. AI can help in many parts of making a product, from research to writing product plans and documents.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Can product managers successfully promote e-cigarettes using social media? When you think about all of the products that product managers are responsible for, there are a number of them that come to mind as being “difficult” products to successfully manage. Image Credit: Lindsay Fox.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That’s exactly how I discovered the world of Product Management. My first job I was working in the Group health actuarial team to analyze customer health claims data and developing pricing for current-year policies. I was about to click back when I noticed the term “Product Manager” on the headline.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 10, 2021

Product managers have to deal with patient data privacy laws Image Credit: Stock Catalog. Every product manager wants to be in charge of a product that customers want. There are some significant issues that these product managers are facing. A great example of this happening in the health care market.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How is the increase in mobile use changing the landscape of the product management role, and what are the differences between traditional product management and mobile product management? In the world of mobile product management, interfaces are particularly prone to changes and redesign.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

GM’s Product Managers Have Run Into A Battery Problem Image Credit: Frank Hebbert. So I’m willing to bet that you are pretty proud of your product. This is all fine and good as long as the product that you are delivering is truly high quality. The product managers still intend to launch 10 EVs in China.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product operations is an emerging function. How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What Product Managers do. What is Product Operations?

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Product Talk

MAY 18, 2022

Don’t go to your VP of marketing or VP of sales and say, “All my product managers need access to customers.” ” Have one product team make friends with one sales rep or one marketing person, build the relationship, and remove the unknowns. The product manager had an uncle who was a doctor.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle of Introduction, growth , maturity and decline.With digital disruption in the market place it is very critical that we design products that stay in the growth phase for a longer period of time. The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

There’s no separate ‘product strategy’ from company strategy?—?strategy Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Finally, we can think of actions that we can argue against these policies.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 15, 2016

Product managers often work in diverse teams and need good team management skills to be successful. To explore managing teams, I invited a frequent keynote speaker and coach who companies invite to teach them about improving teams and their work. Practices and Ideas for Product Managers and Innovators.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 29, 2020

On the other hand, reassuring them that the decision reflects your company policy or product vision can quell their frustration while still making them feel heard. Our support reps will routinely run through the logic behind product decisions with our engineers and product managers. Don’t change your tone of voice.

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