2025

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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

A product manager’s guide to breaking free from reactive problem solving Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Doug Hall, master of turning chaos into clarity, we explored how product managers and innovation leaders can break free from reactive problem-solving and create more value through proactive innovation. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5 hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes.

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Tools of the Trade: Building Opportunity Solution Trees in Vistaly

Product Talk

If youre committed to adopting continuous discovery habits, opportunity solution trees are one of the most important ways to track your learnings and progress. And theres no shortage of tools out there that can be used to build your opportunity solution trees. If youre committed to adopting continuous discovery habits, opportunity solution trees are one of the most important ways to track your learnings and progress.

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The Innovation Ambition Matrix

Roman Pichler

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. This allows us to distinguish three different innovation types: core, adjacent, and disruptive, as Figure 1 shows. [1] Figure 1: The Innovation Ambition Matrix Note that Nagji and Tuff use the term transformational instead of disr

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The Daily Developer Connection—Key to Great Product Management

The Product Guy

In this episode of “Product Excellence: Insights from Award-Winning Leaders | Strategies for Success,” Garrett Lang explains why daily communication with developers is crucial for product managers. He shares his own routine of meeting with his offshore developers every day to ensure clarity and overcome any ambiguity in product specifications.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Deep dive: Mastering stakeholder management for product leaders

Mind the Product

As a product manager or leader, your ability to manage stakeholder relationships is as critical as your strategy and execution skills. In fact, those relationships have a real chance to make or break a project whether its a new product launch, product strategy planning process, or any other project your product team is working on. Read more » The post Deep dive: Mastering stakeholder management for product leaders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Succeed with AI in 2025

Piyanka Jain

Unlocking Success with AI in 2025: The Future isNow By now, weve all seen the headlines. AI is going to revolutionize everything, automate the world,etc But most AI initiatives in businesses fail. And not because AI itself is broken, but because companies keep treating it like a science project instead of a tool that actually needs to solve problems.

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A guide to AI prototyping for product managers

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. 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.

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Retailers. Don’t just collect feedback. Act on it!

Alchemer Mobile

In the retail industry, customer feedback is your early warning system, your innovation engine, and your most honest performance review. But this system only works if you take action on the feedback collected. The best retail companies use feedback to inform product decisions, align teams around the Voice of the Customer, and fix whats not quite working.

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Product Manager Demos – 3 Reasons They Have To Be Great

Product Management University

The biggest reason product manager demos need to be great has a lot more to do with internal stakeholders than any other audience. Sure, there are customer and prospect scenarios where great demo skills are highly beneficial for product managers, but most product manager demos are to internal audiences. Ive seen more than my fair share of product manager demos to internal audiences.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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EP84 Challenges unique to AI products

The Product Coalition

In this episode of the Product Coalition Podcast, host Jay Stansell engages with Michael Smith, a veteran product leader, to explore the unique challenges of building AI products.

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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

The product manager’s journey from Individual Contributor to Chief Product Officer Watch on YouTube TLDR Kimberly Bloomston’s journey from individual contributor to Chief Product Officer at LiveRamp demonstrates the key transitions and skills needed at each level of product management leadership. Her path highlights how responsibilities evolve from hands-on product development to strategic business leadership, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning, vulnerability, and stro

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Join 4 Upcoming Events on Continuous Discovery with Teresa Torres in January and February 2025

Product Talk

Im hosting a lineup of free events throughout January and February! Id love for you to join one. January 7th & 22nd: Product Discovery Discussion Sessions for Senior Leaders Ive been hosting monthly product discovery discussion sessions for senior leaders (think executives, VPs, CPOs) about the challenges they face managing continuous discovery teams.

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Succeeding with Product Portfolio Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What is a Portfolio Roadmap and Do You Need One? What do Microsoft 365 and Netflix have in common? Neither is a singular atomic product. Microsoft 365 is a product portfolio, a suite that contains productivity tools like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The Netflix app appears to be a product bundle, a collection of smaller, specialised products, including movies, series, games and live events.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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How Maya Brooks Builds Value Through Product Philosophy and Feminist Leadership

The Product Guy

Product managers often talk about creating value, but few approach it with the clarity and conviction that Maya Brooks brings. In this episode, Maya breaks down the product philosophy that drives iFundWomen and how values like inclusion, community, and empowerment are embedded into every step of the product journey. What You’ll Learn: Designing for Goodwill : Why community-centered product strategy pays off Real-Time Feedback Loops : Using tight-knit Slack communities for continuous insigh

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The best resources for product managers in 2025

Mind the Product

The consistent advice from product thought leaders and sages is that you should spend as much time as you can learning – building skills, deepening your understanding of product management and learning about new developments in ways to approach your craft. But where do you go for help? What resources can you depend upon to Read more » The post The best resources for product managers in 2025 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How to Be an Effective Product Management Leader

Productside

Taking charge of a product management team can feel like juggling flaming torchesthrilling, but also risky if you dont have the right game plan. In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively.

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The “.ai”s Don’t Have It: What Startups Are Getting Wrong with AI

Piyanka Jain

Stop trying to look like an AI startup and start to be one instead. The market doesnt need another AI gimmick. It needs businesses that deliverresults. It seems like every startup these days is slapping .ai onto its name, like its a shiny golden sticker that will guarantee funding, customers, and success. AI is the new gold rush, and everyones hoping to strike itrich.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

👋 Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. 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 I talk a lot on my podcast and in this newsletter about the correlation between successful companies and an obsession with velocity.

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Alchemer’s CFO on the keys to getting finance backing behind your CX initiatives

Alchemer Mobile

When CFOs push back on customer experience (CX) investments, it’s rarely because they don’t care—it’s because the business case for CX isn’t framed in the financial terms they trust. In the latest episode of The Business of Feedback , Alchemer CMO Bo Bandy sits down with CFO Jove Oakley to explore how CX leaders can break through that disconnect. Together, they outline three practical steps to bridge the gap with Finance, align meaningful metrics, and turn strong CX ideas into fully funded initi

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If It Doesn’t Have Customer Value First, FAHGETTABOUDIT!

Product Management University

No matter what role you playproduct management, marketing, sales, customer onboarding, or account managementif your starting point isnt quantifiable customer value, fuhgeddaboudit! Nothing else matters. Period. End of story. Its easy to get caught up in your own goalscorporate goals, sales targets, marketing KPIs, retention quotas. Before you know it, your view of what the market actually values is as clear as a foggy windshield.

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Avoiding Common Bias Traps in UX Surveys

UX Planet

Part 3 (of 3) in the Designing UX Surveys That Work series. In Part 1 , we covered the essential Dos for creating impactful surveys, and in Part 2 , we focused on identifying and eliminating bias in survey questions. In this final part, well explore the broader landscape of common bias traps that can compromise your survey data and discuss strategies to minimise theirimpact.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can make OKRs drive real results Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Ben Lamorte, the world’s most experienced OKR coach and founder of OKRs.com, we explored how product managers and leaders can transform their approach to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Ben shared insights about why many OKR implementations fail and how to avoid common pitfalls.

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Building Skills: Setting Pilot Teams Up for Product Operating Model Success

Product Talk

Change is exciting, but too much change can feel chaotic. When making a big change like adopting the product operating model or continuous discovery , how do you tap into the excitement while also controlling the chaos? This is a question that Hope Gurion and I have been exploring over the past several months in our series on organizational change. After working with hundreds of teams who are going through this transformation, Hope and I have seen firsthand which approaches tend to work and whic

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AI and Product Strategy

Roman Pichler

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] Below are four examples of how this can be achieved. Note that Ive decided not to state the names of the tools I found, partly as the AI landscape is changing rapidly and partly as you should research and select the tools that work best in your context rather than trusting my judgment. [2] Market Research AI-bas

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Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation: Key Insights from TPG Live

The Product Guy

In the latest TPG Live session, Driving Impact Through Influence and Experimentation , we dived into strategies product managers can use to expand their influence, foster innovation, and navigate the evolving landscape of product management. Featuring an engaging discussion with Inis Hormann (Marketing Director Germany, Cepheid) and Steve Kury (Leadership Development Consultant, SHK Leadership Consulting), the session provided actionable insights for PMs at every level.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Ten tips for product managers to get confident with APIs

Mind the Product

Perhaps only five years ago, most product managers had limited exposure to APIs. Today in contrast, Product Managers are regularly encountering APIs. Whether connecting digital experiences, driving ecosystems, or unleashing the power of AI, APIs now play a critical role in digital products and business strategy. However, a quick look at Product Management discussion boards, Read more » The post Ten tips for product managers to get confident with APIs appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview)

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Its a product strategy problem. Thats where the Productside Blueprint comes in. In this serialized story, youll meet Heather Leaf , VP of Product at WellNest Health, and her lead PM, Tommy Trunk.

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10 Mobile App Push Notification Best Practices to Reduce Churn

Userpilot

Nearly 60% of mobile teams still rely on self-hosted push tools. They trade short-term savings for long-term pain: no analytics, poor timing control, and zero personalization. This leads to errors like sending a product update notification at 1 AM or showing the wrong message to the wrong user segment. If youre serious about building a mobile app, you cant afford to make such costly mistakes. 78% of users churn in the first week after installation when brands dont have a clear engagement strateg