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

The Product Guy

Rather than rulers, product managers are navigators—balancing the competing demands of customers, engineers, designers, sales teams, and executives to ensure the right product gets built for the right reasons. While such conflicts can arise, they are not inherent to the role—they reflect poor performance by ineffective PMs.

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can move from ideas to action Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I speak with Atif Rafiq about how senior product leaders approach strategy development and execution. He has developed a systematic approach to problem-solving that forms the basis of his book, Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown.

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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. New players are entering the market with agile teams, wearable integrations, and insurer distribution deals.

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529: Is this the best AI-powered market research approach? – with Carmel Dibner

Product Innovation Educators

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes Most product managers dont set out to write bad requirements. So the team builds it without questioning whether it fits the strategy or delivers value to the customer. Theyre under pressure to deliver. Whats fast.

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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

Scale through platform investment: Rather than custom solutions, Revolut builds scalable platforms that enable a team of 300 people to ship credit products monthly across 50 countries—a function that typically requires 2,000 to 3,000 employees at traditional banks.

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The Rise of AI-Driven UX: Balancing Automation and Human-Centered Design in 2025

UX Planet

Machine Learning (ML) is at the forefront, allowing UX teams to analyze vast amounts of user data to identify trends and predict behavior. This technology is crucial for developing conversational interfaces like chatbots, which help create seamless and interactive experiences forusers.