This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
As productmanagers, we often focus on the development and success of the products we bring to market. But there’s another product that deserves just as much attention— you. Why Your PM Brand Matters Your personal brand as a productmanager is essentially how others perceive your skills, expertise, and leadership.
How productmanagers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software productmanagers.
1] This is especially true in productmanagement. As product people, we work with individuals from various business units or departments with different views and ideas. What’s more, suppressing the negative emotions , which are usually present in a conflict, increases your stress levels and can harm your mental health.
In the first part of this series, we explored the importance of personal branding for productmanagers and discussed practical strategies to build and strengthen your PM brand. Balancing internal and external perceptions, managing expectations, and aligning your brand with your teams identity can present unique hurdles.
Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups
No one makes poorly designed products on purpose. That's why Laura Klein, productmanager and UX designer, has a set of tips to help application teams improve their embedded dashboards and reports. You'll learn: How to develop products that boost your business's bottom line while dramatically improving customer experience.
Taking charge of a productmanagement team can feel like juggling flaming torchesthrilling, but also risky if you dont have the right game plan. Why the First 90 Days Matter When you lead a new product team, your opening move sets the tone. Your productmanagers wonder if youll champion them. Roger : Absolutely.
Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for ProductManagers. He also wrote my 9th most popular post of all time ( Become a more technical productmanager ). For example, I built this presentation app (with live Q&A and polls!)
Fear not, productmanagers. It’s going to make you a better productmanager than you ever imagined. Taking You Out of Your Comfort Zone Get ready, productmanagers because AI is definitely going to change your job if it hasn’t already, but you’re going to love it! You’re doing product design and development.
The biggest reason productmanager demos need to be great has a lot more to do with internal stakeholders than any other audience. Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for productmanagers, but most productmanager demos are to internal audiences.
A product roadmap needs to both capture your product’s strategy and outline your execution plan. Because these documents are such an essential component of your job as productmanager, you also need to strategize your roadmap presentation. In other words, you need to speak your executive suite’s language.
A productmanager’s guide to breaking free from reactive problem solving Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Doug Hall, master of turning chaos into clarity, we explored how productmanagers and innovation leaders can break free from reactive problem-solving and create more value through proactive innovation.
When Jane, a seasoned productmanager, started her new role at a fast-growing SaaS company, she was ready to make an impact. Resource Alert: Explore How to Lead in ProductManagement by Roman Pichler for actionable advice on stakeholder engagement. But within a month, she felt like she was treading water.
In a similar fashion, AI is changing how productmanagers learn best practices, and it will all be for the better when you see the results. Common Scenarios Before & After AI Here are a few common productmanagement scenarios that exemplify the stark difference between learning best practices before and with AI.
In the latest TPG Live session, Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation , we dived into strategies productmanagers can use to expand their influence, foster innovation, and navigate the evolving landscape of productmanagement.
Speaker: Shyvee Shi - Product Lead and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Generative AI products stand at the cutting edge. These products, with their unique capabilities, bring fresh opportunities and challenges that demand a fresh approach to productmanagement.
I decided to review all the concepts of project and productmanagement to understand what I was doing well and what I was not organizing correctly. For me, as a project manager, every new assignment presented unique challenges, new people, and fresh knowledge. This left me pondering: What exactly was I feeling, and why?
Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior ProductManager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of productmanagement,” says Teeba. “I I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery.
Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of productmanagement looks like Tal Raviv. Productmanagement is unfair.
This happens when teams solve today’s problems without considering how those needs might change by the time their product actually launches. As I’ve seen in my own productmanagement experience, the traditional product development cycle can take months or even years.
Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy
Many ProductManagers feel quality user research can't keep up with the fast-paced culture of agile teams. Join Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy, as she presents common issues agile teams have with incorporating research, and how to solve them. Setup and logistics. Research Planning.
However, productmanagers often face even greater challenges when navigating high-stakes situations with senior leadership or dealing with conflicting priorities across departments. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.
Making Better Launch Decisions James points out common decision-making problems in product launches. He describes what he calls the “Your PowerPoint is better than mine, but you’re wrong” syndrome – where strong presentation skills can override better strategic choices.
The productmanager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for productmanagers.
In spite of what you may hear, we will still need (great) managers in the future—to scale (well-functioning) teams, to mentor and coach individuals, and to think beyond the day-to-day. These tactics and tools are practical and actionable, and you can start experimenting with them today, even if you’re not managing.
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing productmanagement. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.
Blog Ebooks &Â Guides Events & Webinars Case Studies Podcast Community Sign in Get started for free Test Closure How to Present Customer Insights to ProductManagers, Engineers, and Executives Posted on June 11, 2025 Austin Meyer You ran a solid test. Presenting feedback isnât just about sharing the facts.
Welcome to the ultimate guide to ProductManager interview questions. Tell me about a time you managed a difficult stakeholder Situation: A senior exec wanted a feature that conflicted with user feedback. Action: Facilitated a workshop to align on goals and presented data-backed alternatives.
How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? Audience Q&A: Applying These Concepts in Real Scenarios Our audience asked real-world product questions , and our panel shared actionable strategies. Heres a sneak peek: Q: Im new to productmanagement. How can I get hands-on experience?
In this episode of How I PM, Michael Ionita, CEO of LFG Solutions and YouTuber, shares practical ways to test your product ideas before writing any real code. 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.
Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
That means product leaders need to integrate experiments and options into their roadmaps. In this presentation, Johanna Rothman will explain: How to limit the duration of a roadmap and show possible options. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try.
How AI captures customer needs that human productmanagers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.
I recently spoke at Productized in Lisbon on ‘turning stress into success’ Why this theme? Because, as productmanagers and leaders, we’re stressed. 88% of productmanagers feel stressed often or all the time. 52% of productmanagers time is spent on unplanned activities.
For them to be able to do so, though, this bigger picture must be clear and present in your communication at all times. Delivering Results It sounds almost trivial, but it’s not. If you plan for outcomes rather than effort or output (namely, deliver a certain feature), you increase the chance of actually achieving this outcome.
Are you a ProductManager at a crossroads - stay or go? When presenting to executives, Maya used data to back up her points, leveraging her analytical strengths and making an impact. AI is changing productmanagement. As AI reshapes productmanagement, view it as a tool for acceleration rather than a threat.
Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group
During this presentation, attendees will hear case studies, examples, and best practices gleaned from Jim's 25 years of using the Product Discovery Cycle. Use ProductManagement Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! What's more, they can achieve all this while staying aligned to company goals.
” This is a common situation for a lot of productmanagers. Inside the Mandate The leadership team has decided to acquire a widget-product competitor, buying the additional market share, bundled with the additional costs associated with maintaining the acquired product and servicing the existing customers.
Want to advance your career in productmanagement or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting productmanager roles focused on retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended productmanager job openings in data-driven companies 1.
This guide will walk you through crafting effective release notes, provide a free template to streamline your workflow, and showcase 7 inspiring examples to fuel your productmanagement efforts. Release notes are documents that accompany a new product or update release. What are release notes? Importance of release notes.
Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting
The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/productmanagement perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.
As a productmanager, you interact with a diverse range of stakeholdersboth internal and externaleach with unique perspectives and priorities. Why Trust Matters in ProductManagement Trust is the foundation of influence, and as a PM, you lead through influencenot authority.
Exploring unmet needs and validating hypotheses helps refine product direction while avoiding costly assumptions. By prioritizing a thorough product discovery process, productmanagers can create tools that resonate with users, address challenges, and meet market demands.
And sometimes, if you don’t have a strategic roadmap, the CEO might want one ASAP , for example, before a presentation to the board or an important customer. If the CEO needs a presentation for Tuesday you need to have it ready for Tuesday. So, on the one hand, you have to compromise on something.
Places users’ needs at the central focus across different teams, enabling productmanagers, engineers, and designers from various product lines to identify common user problems and build empathy for existing pain points. Why ideation matters? User focus. Community and diversity. Give clear instructions.
Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader
It’s presented by an experienced engineering leader for product development leaders. December 13, 2023 at 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm GMT Use ProductManagement Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 96,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content