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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Modus Create

JULY 8, 2025

How AI enhances collaboration across product and technology teams AI-assisted development transforms how developers, designers, and product managers work together. Designers and product managers must provide thorough documentation of requirements, user stories, and expected behavior.

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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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Tyner Blain

MAY 26, 2025

This came up twice last week with two different product managers I’m helping. When subjected to this level of thinking, many requests to build something get cancelled. Because it becomes clear they aren’t worth building. Both of them offered examples of work which just evaporated when value was explored.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

If youre ready to move beyond quick fixes and build a sustainable product management framework, this is exactly what well show you from our first-hand experience! After all, we designed it for product management in SaaS based on core principles. software development) to identify causal factors of a specific problem.

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Sequent Learning

JUNE 16, 2025

We need to talk about the biggest lie in software development. The Strawman We Love to Hate Most developers who trash “Waterfall” are attacking a caricature that never existed. One-time fee: $99 Start building the product career you deserve. ” It’s become gospel in our industry.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2025

Being a custom healthcare software development company that’s worked with over 100 non-technical and some technical founders, we strongly feel outsourcing your product development is a viable option for building the first version of your product. At Mailburn, we did it exactly that.

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In part one of our “Building Better Applications with Software Analytics” series we look at specific use cases for software usage analytics in “Take the Guesswork Out of Product Management.”.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

A Product Manager? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Product Management Do you have a clear vision of the initial application and a plan for sequencing changes after the initial launch?

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Welcome to our third episode of Product to Product —a podcast for / by product people. Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. Going from writing into product, however, not so much.

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Arkenea

MAY 8, 2025

If you’re considering expanding your development capabilities beyond your in-house team, you’ve likely encountered the term “ nearshore software development in Mexico ” during your research. Offshore Software Development involves partnering with development teams in more distant countries.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 19, 2017

As product managers, we may sometimes feel as though communicating our roadmap strategies and recommendations to those who sit outside of the immediate team – sales, marketing, and other executive stakeholders – resembles Catmull’s first characterization of the unhealthy culture.

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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. Or, hey, my favorite folks sometimes, the product manager people. Join me a picture of a project manager. I’m a software developer.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Valdsgaard offers inspiring guidance for product managers – to consider, for a moment, how new technology is fueling our ambitions when it comes to developing and delivering amazing products. We need to point ourselves toward becoming a customer-obsessed product management organization.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Amazon is one of those truly disruptive companies – whose products have created entirely new categories of demand. It’s always fun to look under the hood and see what product management looks like at businesses whose product development has been so wildly successful.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. ” I’ve spent the last half-year in the beginning of my journey understanding how agile product management at scale can work. Outcomes and Progressive Elaboration.

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Street Smart Product Manager

DECEMBER 12, 2016

One of the biggest lies in product management is agile. It’s a great approach to reducing the risk of developing and shipping software. It’s a better software development methodology. The post As a product manager, you need to do just two things appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. More About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 3) How should I go about solving it?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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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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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. More About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. We product managers rock here.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

What should I follow in the day-to-day of a development team? In the Software Development area, we see a continuous difficulty in defining which numbers to analyze and which will best represent the performance of a team. In general, most of these metrics focus on superficial productivity, and they have two drawbacks.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Product Manager @ Postlight (New York, NY). Keywords: Client Services, Product Management, Software Development. Product Manager @ Piktochart Sdn Bhd (Penang, Malaysia). Keywords: Agile, Product Development, Product Management, Scrum.

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Product Management University

JULY 23, 2020

Agile is a software development methodology. It’s not a way to do product management. It’s not how you do product marketing or sales. Agile development is a methodology for building software, and it’s a good one! More emphasis on deliverables, greater accountability and better product usability.

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Productside

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Agile, born in 2001 when 17 software developers created the Agile Manifesto at a Utah ski lodge, has revolutionized how we develop software. The post Why You Must Earn the Agile Product Manager and Product Owner Certification appeared first on Product Management Courses | Productside.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 13, 2020

It was on this day in 1931 that the field of product management was born – its birth marked by an internal memorandum written by Neil H. McElroy, manager of Proctor and Gamble’s Promotion department. In many ways, the role of a brand manager has informed the modern-day product manager role. It’s May 13th.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ????

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Here’s what strategic partner PayPal did to bring scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer. He expected to get what he needed from Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Product Management (MSPM) program. I felt PayPal would be a great choice.”. “Is

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Define Success. What makes a story “ready”? Make no Concessions.

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