The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management,” says Teeba. “I I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery. “I

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I’ve never felt compelled to write a rebuttal before, but Amanda Hoover’s recent article, “ Product managers rule Silicon Valley. Not everyone is happy about it ,” misses the mark on what product management truly entails. It’s time to set the record straight. Let’s address these misconceptions head-on.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. the Product Manager role is a rather recent phenomenon.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. I started my career as a software engineer. Discovery is a team sport.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. But that’s still not enough.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] AI Strategy Benefits My research shows that AI can help you make better strategic decisions faster, at least for certain products. [1] 2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. The following four measures will help you with this.

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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. Designers and UX researchers will be motivated if you give them important product issues to solve. Guest Post by: David Pasztor.

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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. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Their model involves solving one customer’s (very big and valuable) problem, then abstracting that solution into a product you can sell to everyone else. Looking for signs like athletic achievements or chess playing can predict work ethic and problem-solving abilities better than traditional credentials.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I talk to a lot of PMs and I ask them (and everyone who subscribes to my newsletter) the same question: what’s your biggest struggle as a Product Manager? Having put together a fairly popular resource on product prioritization methods, I would’ve hoped the situation to be different. Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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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. These moments can be politically challenging, as they require balancing the immediate demands of stakeholders with long-term product goals.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

Lessons learned on a journey from schoolteacher to Head of Product. Most of the people that listen to this podcast have been in product management for several years. Many of them are in leadership roles, such as Product VPs, CPOs, and Heads of Innovation. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:02]

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2021

Have you ever considered what our healthcare systems and treatments might look like in 2065? 10 Innovative Health Apps?—?Our Our Top Picks For product managers in the area of MedTech, Connected Health, Telehealth, here is a run-down of 10 innovative health apps which highlight that the future of personalized health is already here.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • Vanta —Automate compliance. This opens up opportunities to integrate smarter, smaller models into products. Create mechanisms for continuous feedback, and make rapid iteration a core part of your development cycle.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They’ll place more trust in you to pursue the opportunities and solutions you believe will have the most impact on your desired outcome. That’s the question we’ll explore in today’s Product in Practice. But for everyone else out there, Hemnet is Sweden’s largest property portal and one of the top five most popular apps in the country.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. First, I do internet research. It was a technological marvel.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Why do I need a framework?

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 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 retention and churn and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies 1.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What product managers need to know about the Product Development and Management Association. Most of us haven’t known about product management for more than 10 or 20 years, yet PDMA has been improving the discipline of product management for nearly five decades. .

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen. Or worse of all, sometimes there was just no Product Vision at all.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 1, 2025

Hybrid marketplace vision for autonomy: Uber divested its in-house AV unit and now partners with over 15 AV companies. Five product cycles in three years teach the thousands of micro-decisions that build judgment (product sense) faster than any course. Empathy beats ego: Users spend minutes, not their lives, inside your product.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here at Product Talk, we’re excited about showcasing what good product management looks like. That’s why we recently launched the Product in Practice series , where we’re highlighting excellent work that different product teams are doing. First Impressions: A Staggered Rollout of the Opportunity Solution Tree.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The process of taking a product or a feature from idea to execution is a taxing proposition for any team to undertake. Imagine building software that supports sales teams manage their client relationships. Imagine building software that supports sales teams manage their client relationships.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

After hosting the 2020 virtual summit for product managers and product VPs, I’ve been asked many times for my lessons learned: what made it great, what would I do differently, what advice I have, what I learned about launching a product, etc. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:38]

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Questions product managers ask me about how to improve innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers are pivotal in driving innovation within organizations. By mastering these areas, product managers can improve their skills, boost their influence, and contribute more effectively to their organization’s success.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2024

Mastering product lifecycle management – for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Product lifecycle management is key to successful product development and innovation. Here are the main takeaways: The classic product lifecycle stages are introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and retirement.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. But like any tool, Scrum has its benefits and limitations.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. Categorization tools.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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