The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 22, 2025

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. Market Research: From Manual to Machine-Learned Market research has always been a cornerstone of product strategy. PM focuses on unblockers and strategy.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

This will involve close collaboration with Stripe’s and our financial partners product and engineering organizations to prioritize valuable investments over a multi-quarter roadmap, considering distribution potential, performance, costs, and risks. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Could you manage a roadmap, run a standup, and charm stakeholders? What teams really need are PMs who can bridge gaps between business and engineering, between user needs and design, between growth experiments and core product strategy. Do I understand what makes a good UX flow beyond it should be intuitive?

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Modus Create

MAY 8, 2025

Hypothesis-led roadmapping, real-time validation, and prompt-driven prototyping become critical. Let's talk about your operating model Modus Create > Insights > Blog Posted in Product Share this Jill Antweiler Jill Antweiler has over 20 years of experience wearing many hats, helping companies build amazing products.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. A job seeker with 8+ years of experience in product management or UX design, especially for mobile apps or games. Who would be a BAD fit for this job?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Strategy Strategy plays a crucial role in aligning product development efforts with organizational goals. Design and Development Design and development focus on the actual creation of products, encompassing both the creative and technical aspects. How do you align your product roadmap with overall business objectives?

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Definition and Core Components Outsourced software product development refers to the practice of delegating all or part of the software development lifecycle to an external partner. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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Reveal

JUNE 24, 2025

The best self-service BI tools give you control over the UX, not just the data. Integrate with Your Existing Systems Your BI solution must connect seamlessly to the tools and data sources your product already uses—SQL, APIs, cloud warehouses, CRMs, ERPs, and application-specific datasets. Look at AI roadmaps.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

Proven experience working in a technical environment with cross-functional teams to drive product vision, define requirements, and guide the team through key milestones. Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI, and interaction challenges. Salary $385,000 $465,000 USD + offers equity.

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Reveal

JUNE 27, 2025

Your UX is evolving. Your roadmap is packed with features designed to meet rising customer expectations. This disconnect isn’t just a UX issue. It slows down decision-making, breaks user flow, and limits how much value customers get from your product. It’s a core part of modern product strategy.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Why a Product Strategy Process Matters. An effective product strategy process should ensure that a valid product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are always available—that a shared and valid approach to achieving product success is available at anytime, as the picture below illustrates.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I believe the main culprits are Mr. Roadmap and Mr. Backlog. Culprit #1: Mr. Roadmap. You’ve likely worked on new features, bug fixes, minor UX improvements, perhaps tackled some technical debt, and so on. . How should we balance technical debt vs our feature roadmap? Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Melissa Perri

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Product Roadmaps, in general, are confusing. Even the most experienced Product Managers still don’t have them fully figured out. Three years ago I wrote a blog post about Rethinking the Product Roadmap , in which I advocated for a focus on solving customer problems instead of listing out features with deadlines.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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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. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Will the product make a positive impact on people’s lives, the wider society, and the planet, or will it at least not cause any harm ? How might people use the product? What kind of user experience (UX) should the product give rise to? How can the product be built? What are the major touch points?

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The Product Guy

JULY 2, 2017

UX, Business or Technology focussed product manager?). Tapping into a network of people that have experience in product management and/or reading product management books/online resources will help you to answer these questions. Is there another target audience that is better satisfied with the product you have?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When working on a brand-new product, trying to achieve PMF, or struggling to keep the product growing, you typically face many unknowns and a substantial amount of uncertainty and change. But as your product grows and eventually matures, the amount of uncertainty and change gradually declines.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. New Idea Generation.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. In this role, Gaudio drives the strategy behind roadmap management, agile product development, and cross-functional communication. The Best Product Consultant. Drew Falkman.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

These guide and align the strategies of the portfolio members , as Figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. Lead the Product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

What’s more, the dev team is cross-functional and may include UX and UI designers, developers, and testers, alongside other roles. The stakeholders come from different business units, for example, marketing, sales, support, and service for a commercial product. Consequently, do not neglect the product discovery and strategy work.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product that is being continually updated? This is the situation for countless SaaS product management professionals lucky enough to manage products via this model.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. Share the Work.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Don’t Handoff Product Discovery Work.

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