The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2025

Welcome to the ultimate guide to Product Manager 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.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As a consequence, a product roadmap is no longer exclusively directed by the corresponding product strategy. A question I often get asked in my workshops is, How detailed should a portfolio roadmap be? Generally speaking, thats the job of a product portfolio manager. It is also guided by the portfolio roadmap.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. UX analytics involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about how users interact with your product or service. For each task participants must perform, Optimal Workshop has a dedicated task results tab.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2025

Product Management Every feature, every roadmap decision, every investmenttied directly to user jobs that, when improved, create measurable benefits for the customer. Don’t be so anxious to bring products into the discussion. Listen long enough to create a clear value target for your products.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers 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.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

As a product manager, you interact with a diverse range of stakeholdersboth internal and externaleach with unique perspectives and priorities. Why Trust Matters in Product Management Trust is the foundation of influence, and as a PM, you lead through influencenot authority.

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Usersnap

JUNE 26, 2025

Product Team Health Check: Are You Even Aligned? Instead, run a Competitive Mapping Workshop : List 3–5 key competitors Compare what they say vs. what they actually deliver (positioning vs. reality) Spot the whitespace: what are they missing that you can own? Become a value-driven PM.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2025

With just months to go until INDUSTRY: The Product Conference returns to Cleveland Ohio, on September 9-10, the stage is set for another standout gathering of the product community.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Clustering notes for brainstorming and affinity diagramming: Miro provides text recognition and clustering of notes features, making it ideal for affinity mapping and identifying patterns during brainstorming sessions or workshops. Involve cross-functional teammates in synthesis “Workshops are an opportunity for storytelling.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2025

Transparent Communication with PMs : Initially, we encountered challenges aligning with the product managers expectations. We worked with multiple product managers, each with their priorities and timelines. To address this, we actively collaborated with the product managers to prioritize features and realign expectations.

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 20, 2025

I have a bit of a history with the concept of ‘good enough’, from satisficing in sprint planning (2008) to Kano analysis for product managers (2009) to trying not to miss the mark in problem solving (2012) to understanding intent and satisfying customer needs (2014). The value is in solving the problem.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Picture this: A room full of product leaders huddled around market data like detectives at a crime scene, learning to spot the subtle clues that spell opportunity. It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. The secret? But with time and practice, you can blend them into a performance worthy of center stage.

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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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Business Acumen Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Product Strategy and Roadmapping : Explore the key concepts of product strategy and learn how to create successful product roadmaps. The Product Manager’s Survival Guide, 2e : Gain practical advice and insights to excel as a product manager.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 10, 2025

For more from Colin, check out his free 45-minute live online class coming up on July 8th, and his course AI Prototyping for Product Managers (which kicks off on June 30th; use code LENNYSLIST to get $100 off). You can also book Colin for one-day team workshops with your team.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2025

Each week, I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity Top angel investors in the U.S.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

It involves thorough research and analysis of the target audience, their pain points, and existing solutions to create a product that meets user needs and provides business value. What would a meaningful outcome look like for our users? Set expectations clearly, use behavior-based screeners, and keep communication tight.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

How serial innovators transform product management Watch on YouTube TLDR Navigating innovation in mature organizations requires a unique approach that goes beyond traditional business strategies. It requires a unique approach that goes beyond traditional management techniques.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

So, what can a newly liberated product design generalist do with all that reclaimed time? I could write one more story about stepping beyond product design into roles like product management, service design (or CX), or even bigger leaps into academia, research, design for government, or, who knows, politics. (If

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. I’m co-presenting with John Spero from Praxair on how organizations effectively and simply accelerate their product capability. Weekly interviews for product managers and innovators.

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Productside

APRIL 4, 2025

For the next spotlight in our Women in Product Management series , Nicole Tieche sat down with Orly Stern recently promoted General Manager of Business Applications at Payoneer and former VP of Product Management. How Orly Got Her Start in Product Nicole: Welcome, Orly. I told him I wanted to learn from him.

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Business Acumen Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some of you also know me through some of the books I’ve written, namely Product Manager’s Desk Reference, Business Acumen Handbook, and so on. And, the research is done sometimes to the workshops I deliver. Or, hey, my favorite folks sometimes, the product manager people. So what is going on?

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2020

On top of those things, this is a story that shows you how that pint helped me, and how it most definitely can help you, on your path of learning and growing as a Product Manager. Maybe with other roles it is different, but with the rare role of Product Manager, you will move away from most of your friends, in terms of profession. .

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. Instead, he requests product roadmap changes by talking directly to you. Why is Empathy Important in Product Management? At the same time, be frank. What did I learn?

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. You are teaching us to talk to users, but I am a Product Owner.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Listen to this article: [link]. 1 Set an Objective. Stay present.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. In an agile product team everyone is aware of the customer’s problem we solve, and everyone can make decision and react on issues.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Learn the qualities of a successful product manager and leader. Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. Roman is a product management expert specializing in digital products.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As product managers we are, at our core, facilitators. The post Product Manager’s Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops appeared first on Mind the Product. The post Product Manager’s Secret 2020 Weapon: Remote Workshops appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2017

Guest Post by: Lamia Benhaddou (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Amanda Ralph]. Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management. Having a dedicated career ladder for product managers allows them to see their path to the C-Suite.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Shaun Russell shares his journey into product management, sketching out the well-trodden path he took to getting started – reading, taking workshops, learning from peers, and so on. But being a product manager is really hard, and nothing can prepare you for it. Friendships are Important. Make space for it.

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