August, 2025

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Ruthless Prioritization: Drew Falkman on How Agile Teams Really Move Faster

The Product Guy

Too many agile teams mistake movement for momentum. Backlogs get longer, everyone is busy, but the product is not moving forward. In this episode, Drew Falkman (Principal at Moves The Needle) explains why unordered work quietly slows teams down and how simple, ruthless prioritization can unlock real progress without adding unnecessary process. What You’ll Learn: Prioritization Gaps : Why unordered backlogs quietly stall progress and how to fix them fast Structure in Agile : How prioritizat

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From Traction to Scale: Five Lessons for Early-Stage Product Teams

Innovatemap

When your product starts gaining traction, it’s easy to think you’ve made it. But what comes next, scaling the right way, is where many early-stage teams get stuck. Innovatemap partnered with HearstLab for a lunch and learn in NYC where Jake Trowbridge and Ashley King joined Tamara Zubatiy , CEO and Co-founder at Barometer , to share what it really takes to turn momentum into a product that scales.

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Why manual feedback workflows are costing you time (and customers)

Alchemer Mobile

Every product launch, service ticket, and update is under the microscope of customer scrutiny. And customers are telling you how they feel at every step. The challenge? 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.

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Tips For Designing Growth Pathways For Product Careers

BrainMates

Tips For Designing Growth Pathways For Product Careers By Jana Paulech At a Glance This blog is a follow-up to our exploration of the death of the traditional product career ladder. It offers practical guidance for product leaders looking to move away from rigid, linear career models and design growth pathways —personalised, flexible, skills-based approaches to career development.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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9 product management events you can’t miss in 2025

airfocus

Explore the top product management conferences for the rest of 2025 – gatherings where you’ll find not just inspiration, but the people and conversations that can turn it into action. Don't miss out on events in San Francisco, Zurich, Sydney and more.

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Start from Consensus to Build Better Products

The Product Guy

Building the right product starts before design or development. It begins with consensus, aligning customers and internal teams around a shared goal. In this episode of How I PM, Patrick Hoffman, building products at Meta, shares how early alignment creates momentum and shared ownership. Consensus starts with customers. Understand the needs of different segments and focus where you can have the most impact.

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From Traction to Scale: Five Lessons for Early-Stage Product Teams

Innovatemap

When your product starts gaining traction, it’s easy to think you’ve made it. But what comes next, scaling the right way, is where many early-stage teams get stuck. Innovatemap partnered with HearstLab for a lunch and learn in NYC where Jake Trowbridge and Ashley King joined Tamara Zubatiy , CEO and Co-founder at Barometer , to share what it really takes to turn momentum into a product that scales.

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AI Prototyping: How 11 Real-World Teams Are Transforming Their Work with Lovable

Product Talk

If there’s one AI tool that should be impacting your product discovery work right now, it’s AI prototyping. Tools like Lovable , V0 , Bolt , Replit , Base44 , and Magic Patterns feel like magic. They make it easy to spin up an interactive prototype in minutes. It’s incredible. If you haven’t tried any of these tools before, I strongly encourage you to do so.

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9 Must-Have Product Management Features

The Product Manager

So, you're after serious enterprise product management firepower. Let’s talk features—idea management, team workflows, roadmapping—the good stuff that keeps your product sharp and your team in sync. The post 9 Must-Have Product Management Features appeared first on The Product Manager.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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How to cut through AI hype and choose solutions with confidence

Intercom, Inc.

AI is exciting. Urgent, even. But after working with countless companies on AI adoption in my role as a Senior Solutions Engineer, I’ve noticed a few common challenges – regardless of company size, budget, or ambition. Too often, teams jump in with the right intentions and still end up with disappointing results. The problem isn’t that AI doesn’t work.

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The UX Murderbot: Humans are idiots

UX Planet

In product design, the biggest enemy isn’t complex code, but the arrogant conviction that “users aren’t stupid” Today, I want to talk about a line that’s been rattling around in my head for a while. It’s from the Apple TV series, “Murderbot,” where the main character, a security cyborg, says: “I am a Security Unit. Or SEC Unit. I was built to protect and obey humans.

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Mentorship That Moves the Needle: How to Actually Support PM Growth

The Product Guy

Most mentorship fails before it even begins. Product managers show up with problems, mentors show up with solutions, and both walk away unchanged. In this candid conversation, Harpal Singh, CPO-in-Residence at Rothschild & Co, shares how he broke that pattern and built a mentorship model that actually works. This is not about giving better advice.

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Customer feedback 101: What it is, why it matters, where to start

Alchemer Mobile

Customer feedback is the backbone of customer-centric business. But understanding how to collect, interpret, and act on feedback can be overwhelming—especially with so many platforms, tools, channels, and strategies out there. This blog breaks down the most common questions about customer feedback so you can build your feedback strategy with confidence and clarity.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Why Your AI Strategy Has a Human-Shaped Hole (And How to Fill It)

People-First Product Leadership

"I feel like I'm updating products that no one understands because they were built by people who no longer exist and the reasons weren't shared with anyone remaining." A coaching client shared this observation, raising a challenge many PMs face today. Does that sound familiar? Welcome to the intersection of Conway's Law and the AI revolution. When your software mirrors your org chart, it becomes a living museum of " organizational archaeology ," reflecting every decision, pivot, and compromise.

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Ravi Mehta’s AI Strategy Surveys: Build AI That Fits, Flows, and Wins

Usersnap

If your AI strategy feels like it’s solving everything except what matters , you’re not alone. Product teams often fall into one of two traps: overbuilding tech that doesn’t connect with users or blindly plugging in AI hoping for magic. What if there were a better way to evaluate where AI fits , when it flows, and how to make it matter? That’s where Ravi Mehta’s AI strategy approach comes in and why we built a set of three practical Usersnap survey templates to help you apply his thinking.

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Concept Series Part II: Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What Are People Saying?

The People of Product Management

top of page Home Blog More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. All Posts Relationship Series Concept Series Search Concept Series Part II: Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What Are People Saying? Bernard Katz 39 minutes ago 3 min read Just last week, a friend asked me at dinner if AI would take his job. An hour earlier, my CEO had asked if we were doing enough with it.

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I Opened My Credit Card App While on a Call, & This UX Surprised Me

UX Planet

A simple, perfectly timed design decision that every UX designer should learn from A few days ago, I opened my finance app to check my card details. Nothing unusual about that. Except this time, I was already on a call. The moment the app loaded, a bright yellow banner appeared across the top of the screen: We’re not calling you If the caller says they’re from Robinhood, they’re not — hang up.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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The One Interview Question That Reveals a Candidate’s True Fit

The Product Guy

Hiring a product manager is never just about skills. The right hire will fit your team’s goals, mindset, and way of working. In this episode, we look at one powerful interview question that goes beyond experience to uncover how a candidate thinks, decides, and adapts. This is not about catching someone off guard. It is about getting to the root of whether they can succeed in your environment and bring real value to your team.

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Vibe Coding Into the Gale

Tyner Blain

Vibe coding, as a faster way to tell people what to build is penny-wise, but pound-foolish. Too many people are latching onto a “show don’t tell” metaphor for making it easier and faster to tell their teams what to build. The same forces which make this possible are making this foolish at the same time. We are in uncharted waters, sailing into the storm of an uncertain future.

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Top customer experience (CX) influencers in software and tech you should follow 

Alchemer Mobile

In the fast-paced world of software and tech, customer experience (CX) is what sets your brand apart—or leaves it behind. Whether you’re building your first product or scaling a full platform, keeping pace with CX trends is a must. Luckily, there are experts out there who lead the way. These CX thinkers bring fresh ideas, proven strategies, and a shared obsession with making every customer moment count.

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Win/Loss Rates for Enterprise SaaS: The 2025 Reality Check

DevelopmentCorporate

In the high-stakes world of enterprise SaaS, founders obsess over pipeline: number of demos booked, proof-of-concepts launched, and proposals sent. But there’s one metric that quietly determines whether your forecasts, runway, and board updates hold water — your win/loss rate. The problem? Reliable, recent, and comparable win/loss benchmarks are scarce.

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Your Guide to Product Management Interviews: Top Questions with Answers

Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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An exclusive inside look at GPT-5

Lenny Rachitsky

Why is this in your inbox? Because How I AI , hosted by Claire Vo, is part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network. Every Monday, we share a 30- to 45-minute episode with a new guest demoing a practical, impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. No pontificating—just specific and actionable advice. Prefer to skip future episode drops?

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The secret to boosting your AI adoption? A culture of experimentation

Modus Create

The secret to boosting your AI adoption? A culture of experimentation By Wesley Fuchter Posted in Product Development Published on: August 11, 2025 Last update: August 11, 2025 In a world racing toward AI maturity , most companies are still stuck at the starting line. This is not for lack of interest or tools, but because traditional processes demand certainty and control where only exploration and learning are effective.

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The Best Roles Don’t Get Posted. They Get Introduced.

The Product Guy

The best PMs I know aren’t struggling with skills. They’re struggling with access. After years of quietly helping product people land roles through personal introductions, I decided to see if there was a way I could help even more. That’s why, for years, I’ve helped product people quietly land new roles through personal introductions. From early-career PMs to VPs and CPOs, one conversation at a time.

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See It, Spark It: How Visual Thinking Accelerates Innovation

freshtrax

“Just collecting everyone’s opinions doesn’t create anything new.” Have you ever felt that way during a brainstorming session or while trying to develop a new business? Every idea begins as vague and difficult to grasp. In team discussions, have you ever thought, “Wait, what are we talking about?” That’s where visual thinking comes in. It’s a method for organizing unclear ideas into a form that everyone can see and understand.

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Effective Risk Management: Balancing Safety, Compliance, and Opportunity

Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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Plug in and power up: Connecting feedback to wherever you store your data

Alchemer Mobile

In our latest Alchemer Connect-focused webinar, Rosie Davenport, Director of Product Marketing at Alchemer, sat down with Justin Falk, Product Manager for Integrations and API, to showcase one of the most critical parts of modern customer experience: connecting and automating your feedback data across systems. This webinar is all about securely pushing data where your teams work and when they need it.

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Win/Loss Rates for Pre-Seed and Seed-Stage Enterprise SaaS: The 2025 Reality Check

DevelopmentCorporate

In the high-stakes world of enterprise SaaS, founders obsess over pipeline: number of demos booked, proof-of-concepts launched, and proposals sent. But there’s one metric that quietly determines whether your forecasts, runway, and board updates hold water — your win/loss rate. The problem? Reliable, recent, and comparable win/loss benchmarks are scarce.

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How ChatGPT accidentally became the fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)

Lenny Rachitsky

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Orkes —The enterprise platform for reliable applications and agentic workflows Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. PostHog —How developers build successful products Nick Turley is Head of ChatGPT, the fastest-growing product in history, with 700 million weekly active users (10% of the world’s population).