DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

Younger or smaller companies particularly those without formal research teams often fall in the lowest budget category, investing only enough to conduct limited testing or outsource one-off studies. On the other hand, companies with dedicated research teams or integrated research operations are more likely to invest six figures or more.

Data Visualization

BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

They require a symphony of teams — Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Support — working together from idea to launch. This blog unpacks how product leaders can drive better collaboration by creating shared clarity, building transparent workflows, and being the empathetic glue between teams. The challenge?

Product Research

AB Tasty

JULY 3, 2025

This slow ramp-up helps teams catch critical issues early and protect user experience. Given today’s fast-changing environment, Lukas believes that roadmaps should be treated as flexible guides rather than rigid plans: “I think roadmaps aren’t necessarily bad, but they should acknowledge the fact that there is uncertainty.

User Testing

Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. But as we’ve seen in the early days of AI experimentation, moving too fast without a clear roadmap will result in multiple pilots that fall short of expectations.

Research Software

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Start 2025 with the essential knowledge areas that give product managers more influence and success In 2024 I co-authored the 3rd edition of the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Product Innovation Training and Certification.

User Testing

Reveal

JUNE 24, 2025

That is the promise of self-service BI: giving users direct access to the answers they need without relying on data teams or filing support tickets. They often come with clunky integrations, unpredictable pricing, and technical overhead that slows your team down. Traditional BI tools were not built for embedded use cases.

Embedded Analytics

Productside

APRIL 30, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Your Product Management Career Isn’t Dead (But It Might Need a Rethink) If youve scrolled LinkedIn lately, youve seen the headlines: AI is coming for your job. Entire teams, downsized. Schedule standing chats with customer-facing teams. Product roles are being cut.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 2 Do the Necessary Prep Work.

Roadmap

Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

Agile

Userpilot

APRIL 2, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. The platform’s code-free implementation makes it accessible for product managers who want insights without constantly relying on developers.

Data Visualization

Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

After 14 years of developing healthcare software solutions , we’ve seen firsthand how the right AI implementation can dramatically improve patient outcomes while reducing operational costs. Retrieval-Augmented Generation represents a significant leap forward from traditional AI chatbots and search systems.

Healthcare

The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. 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. .

Technical Review

The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Now there are more and more resources, like blogs, books, online courses and even training programs for Product Management. Are reading articles, taking online courses, watching videos and participating training program enough to make one a good product manager? How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time?

Product Management

Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Imagine that you have trained hard to run a half-marathon. While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.”

KPI

Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Often, companies approach me asking for help with their product strategy and they’re really focused on the roadmap. 9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? Download the framework.

Product Strategy

Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2019

Product roadmaps are frequently used badly, almost as handcuffs for product managers. A year ago we explored roadmaps and how they should be used with Bruce McCarthy. At the time, he had recently co-authored the book, Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty. Who the roadmap is for.

Roadmap

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. Process and collaboration : Teach agile values, principles, and practises to the product owners, development teams, stakeholders, and management. But it’s not the job of the Scrum Master.

Reporting Tools

Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

Product Research

Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

Product Management

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” Janna still finds she asks, and is asked about, the same thing whether she’s consulting, training, mentoring, or as a CEO. While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. Ditch the Roadmap. Get team members to perform a series of tasks on each. The question is about debt.

Weak Development Team

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Without training, it’s like being a trash collector sinking in quicksand, with lunatics lobbing stuff at you.

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

Product Research

Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Lackluster sales and/or poor adoption shouldn’t come as a surprise. The intent of that design and development changes a lot. In other words, it’s entirely possible your marketing launch isn’t telling your target customers why they should care about something that in all liklihood, has value to them.

Product launches

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I 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.” So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

Roadmap

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Use this article as a guide to polish your resume and improve your job-hunting prospects. Storytelling.

Data Visualization

Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

Product Research

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling. It’s interesting then to contrast our approach to training with other job roles. But the training was intense!

Product Management

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. They equate “white” with “good” and “black” with “bad.”. This was going to be a team effort.

Technical Review

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). To hit more roadmap dates. It also signals a lack of trust between the executive team and the development organization: “how do I know I’m getting my money’s worth out of this mysterious process?

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2018

All of these skills are just as crucial to product success as roadmap building, A/B testing and OKRs, however they’re often not given the emphasis that they deserve. Sue is an engineering lead on a team and Tom is the product manager. In today’s team meeting the debate escalated into an argument. Meet Sue and Tom.

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

Product Research

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

Weak Development Team

Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. People in the organization start to realize there should be reasons behind product decisions, avoiding an ad-hoc development culture. We’ll keep working on this on our next development cycle.”.

Analytic Tools

Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

Engineering

ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. Roadmaps can help reign in the chaos that might erupt when there are fewer barriers between coders and consumers. 5 Roadmap Templates for SaaS Businesses. 5 Roadmap Templates for SaaS Businesses.

Research Software

The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma. Are there capacity or incentive issues?

Customer Experience