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Mergers & Acquisitions in Product Management: How to Navigate Growth & Integration

Productside

In this edition of Productside Stories , we dig into Brians 30-year legacy of building, integrating, and supercharging product portfolios across healthcare, software, media, and government. The pivot to customer list acquisition worked out eventually, but only because they discovered the real story during diligence, not after.

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Product Managers Misunderstood: We Don’t ‘Rule’ Silicon Valley—We Navigate Its Complexities

The Product Guy

A misaligned or underperforming PM can create significant frustration, but the solution lies in improving hiring, training, and role clarity—not removing PMs altogether. Writing off the entire profession due to isolated failures is as illogical as declaring “engineers are unnecessary” because of poorly written code.

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How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)

Lenny Rachitsky

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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Preparing Leaders and Stakeholders to Support Product Operating Model Pilot Teams

Product Talk

Teresa Torres: I love this topic because I think one thing we see a lot is org transformations get framed as: We just need to train our teams and everything will change. Teresa Torres: We see this sometimes in our large company trainings where we hear somebody say, “Yeah, I get it, but my boss thinks it’s the flavor of the week.”

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11 Onboarding Gamification Examples to Engage & Retain Users

Userpilot

Gamification onboarding and the right user onboarding software can turn your product experience into something enjoyable. If your product falls under these categories, awarding badges may work well for you: Learning management systems: LMS, like Growth Engineering, use badges to reward users for completing courses or training modules.

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Whatfix Mobile Review: Pricing, Features, Pros & Cons

Userpilot

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. Whatfix G2 review. The question is: Can Whatfix mobile give you what youre looking for?

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AI and Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

TrainerRoad is an indoor cycling app that offers personalised training plans. Its TrainNow feature suggests a workout for users who do not follow a structured plan but want to train whenever they feel like it and still get the right workout recommendation. [4] Fourth, do you systematically review the product strategy?