Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How product managers are transforming innovation with AI tools Watch on YouTube TLDR In this deep dive into AI’s impact on product innovation and management, former PayPal Senior Director of Innovation Mike Todasco shares insights on how AI tools are revolutionizing product development.

Artificial Inteligence

Product Talk

JULY 9, 2025

Trying to adopt the product operating model ? One of the keys to success is remembering that it’s not just about product teams—it’s an organization-wide transformation. In our years as product coaches, we’ve seen how many companies underestimate what’s actually involved in this type of transformation.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

MAY 12, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Overview of the Matrix The Innovation Ambition Matrix, which was developed by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff, considers the newness of the product on its horizontal axis and the newness of the market on the vertical axis. Take, for example, the Apple Watch and the Google Chrome browser.

Research Software

Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. This article will help reduce such churn by refining your product management and UX analysis approach. Even though they’re the ones using the product.

Data Visualization

Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? To adequately cover this topic, we are going to get into the nitty-gritty of the technical underpinnings of APIs. If you need help getting up to speed on these technical details, be sure to read last weeks article. Alright, lets dive in.

Product Research

The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Do You Stay True to Your Product Vision While Adapting to Market Realities? The Challenge of Balancing Vision vs. Market Demands Why Product Vision Often Gets Lost Product leaders start with a bold vision, but execution becomes difficult when: Market conditions change , requiring fast adjustments.

Vision

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Product velocity is about speed and direction.

Product Research

Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Platform Teams and API Teams Need to Do Discovery As youll see, I ran into several challenges along the way. These challenges made it abundantly clear to me that API teams need to be doing far more discovery than they are clearly doing. Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. Do they usability test their API?

Feedback Software

Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Its one thing to iterate on an existing product. Its a whole other challenge to identify brand-new products to offer. The same is true for API products. They still exist, even when your product is an API. And just because APIs are slightly more technical products, that doesnt mean that you cant apply discovery to them.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] A Product Strategy System The product strategy system in Figure 1 consists of four main parts: people, processes, principles, and tools. Having said this, the system in Figure 1 captures the specific product strategy approach Ive created. [1]

Systems Review

Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. It’s hard to imagine a more intense time to be working in technology, so Noam and I wanted to capture a rich picture of tech workers’ sentiment—at this moment, and going forward.

Technical Review

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM.

Feedback Software

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.

Product Strategy

UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. This fast-paced testing accelerates design cycles and helps refine products in lesstime.

Feedback Software

Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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 product management looks like Tal Raviv. Product management is unfair.

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Subscribe now. So we teamed up to make that happen.

Strategy

Product Talk

JUNE 18, 2025

A single champion can often inspire an organization to shift to the product operating model —especially if that champion is the CEO or CPO. Quick ways to evaluate if their proposed solutions will work—typically via assumption testing. The ability to shift between discovery and delivery continuously. What is the outcome?

Product Research

Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. I guarantee that you’ll get a 100x return on the spend of this newsletter in terms of impact on your product and career—or your money back. product managers really make?” Also, a few surprises.

Data Visualization

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. The reality of product management is far from the commanding caricature the title suggests.

Weak Development Team

Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 5, 2025

Every product launch, service ticket, and update is under the microscope of customer scrutiny. Turning that feedback into fast, meaningful action. Many tech companies do a great job collecting feedback. They drop in-app prompts, run NPS surveys, and follow up with customers after support interactions.

Customer Feedback

Userpilot

JULY 19, 2025

As a product manager, I’ve come across all the common obstacles to creating personas. Otherwise, you’ll end up with guesswork-based personas that aren’t actionable enough to drive product decisions nor relatable enough to inspire, and the work of all your company’s teams will stay disconnected from real customer pain points.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for…. Trust, outcomes, value?

Roadmap

The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. But what if I told you they’re actually sabotaging your product’s potential? Successful products are born from friction.

Data Visualization

Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You see, although we work hard to make Userpilot the best product adoption tool on the market, we know it isnt the perfect fit for every business. Helping prospects find the right product is a win-win situation. A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. Session replays to see how users navigate your product.

Data Visualization

UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

User Testing

Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In a similar fashion, AI is changing how product managers 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 product management scenarios that exemplify the stark difference between learning best practices before and with AI.

Product Management

Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 13, 2025

Customer support teams juggle a tough mix of urgent issues, frustrated customers, and relentless feedback. But too often, that feedback arrives after the fact—when it’s too late to act on it. And if you aren’t collecting feedback at the right time, acting on it becomes very challenging. With Alchemer, that all changed.

Feedback Software

Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2025

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. The short answer: yes.

Research Software

People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I recently spoke at Productized in Lisbon on ‘turning stress into success’ Why this theme? Because, as product managers and leaders, we’re stressed. 88% of product managers feel stressed often or all the time. 52% of product managers time is spent on unplanned activities. What are the alternatives?

Technical Review

The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 22, 2025

Introduction: The Rise of the AI-Augmented PM Welcome to the era where product managers don’t just manage products—they orchestrate intelligent systems . Get ready to become an AI Product Manager. From market research to roadmap prioritization, AI is reshaping how PMs operate, make decisions, and deliver value.

Artificial Inteligence

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. While the SERVQUAL model is often used in customer service, it’s just as valuable for product managers aiming to build seamless, end-to-end product experiences.

Data Visualization

Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

You’ve got your product out in the market. But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

User Testing

Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

When your company adopts multiple SaaS solutions to drive productivity, you unknowingly create a perfect storm for data fragmentation. Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Sound familiar?

Data Visualization

Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

In this Whatfix Mobile review, youll find answers to three questions: What does Whatfix Mobile offer? Product teams can use a no-code editor to design step-by-step guidance and interactive elements that live directly inside their mobile apps. A/B testing and segmentation: The feature lets you split audiences into simple experiments.

Technical Review

Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 7, 2025

As one of the first users outside of OpenAI to test the model, I put GPT-5 head-to-head with GPT-4.1 across real-world product use cases—from writing PRDs to generating code to assisting with visual design work. generate different types of product requirement documents and prototypes for the same prompt 3.

ChatGPT

The Product Guy

MAY 16, 2025

Prioritization is where product leadership gets tested. Balancing technical constraints, stakeholder agendas, and long-term goals is hard. Even experienced PMs get stuck in opinion-driven debates or lose clarity under pressure.

Technical Review