The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2025

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.

Innovatemap

AUGUST 6, 2025

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.

User Testing

The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2025

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

Agile

UX Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Make Time for Ideation [Templates + AI Prompts] Why read this? Most products stumble after the research handoff. Teams rush the first obvious idea and spend weeks fixing it later. A two-hour structured ideation sprint can surface 20 or more options and reduce late-stage rework by 40%. Ideation is crucial for understanding problems deeply and generating creative solutions that truly address them.

Customer Experience

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!

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2025

Summary In this episode of the Product Coalition podcast, host Jay Stansell interviews Alex Blinoff, a global product executive with over 15 years of experience. They discuss the evolving role of product managers, the importance of communication and collaboration, and the impact of new technologies on product management.

Technology

The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2025

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.

Leadership

BrainMates

AUGUST 4, 2025

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.

Customer Experience

UX Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Photo by Amélie Mourichon on Unsplash As product designers, we’re wired to chase creativity. We want to push boundaries, explore new ideas, and craft something unique every time we sit down to design. And that’s great. Exploring multiple directions and trying out variations is often part of the process. But here’s something I’ve come to realize: not everything we design has to be radically new.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JULY 31, 2025

Have you ever felt like your team is full of energy, busy, and working hard but the company still isn’t making the progress you expect? It’s a common problem: your team is moving fast, but in different directions. Like molecules in a glass of water – moving rapidly, yet the water doesn’t go anywhere. Without alignment, energy is wasted. This misalignment shows up everywhere: Support teams over-serve small customers.

Strategy

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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.

Testing

The Product Manager

JULY 29, 2025

Take advantage of product portfolio management tools, find alignment for your team's goals, inform your feature prioritization, and streamline decision-making. The post The 8 Key Benefits of Product Portfolio Management Tools appeared first on The Product Manager.

Management

The Product Guy

JULY 25, 2025

When stepping into a new product team, it’s easy to fall into the trap of proving yourself by owning everything , including responsibilities that shouldn’t fall on you. In this episode, David Clements reflects on the pressure to deliver quickly, the tension between product and project roles, and the subtle art of staying focused on what actually moves the product forward.

Strategy

Productside

JULY 29, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training What Is Good Product Strategy? Before Tom Evans even clicked to slide 2 of his recent webinar , the chat lit up with one universal pain: “My roadmap is packed, but nobody knows why we’re building any of it.” Sound familiar? That disconnect (between what ships and why it should matter) is the direct result of skipping the hard work of a good product strategy and rushing straight to feature sequencing.

Product Strategy

UX Planet

AUGUST 6, 2025

Your Product Isn’t Broken — Your Habits Are The Product Patterns That Are Quietly Killing Efficiency Initially, I wrote this as a rant and then forgot about it. When I returned to it a couple of months later, my perspective had changed (courtesy of conversations with colleagues, mentors, and time). During this period of forgetfulness, I realised that companies have their fair share of ups and downs — and sometimes all you need to do is wait.

Product Research

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.

Data Visualization

Reveal

JULY 29, 2025

Reveal Embedded Analytics For SaaS companies, user growth should accelerate success, not burden your analytics infrastructure. Yet for many SaaS leaders, BI costs surge faster than customer acquisition, and legacy systems struggle to cope with growing data volumes and concurrent user demands. The result? Your analytics can’t keep pace with product momentum, turning scalable analytics into a distant goal.

Embedded Analytics

BrainMates

JULY 25, 2025

Who Killed The ‘Career Ladder’ And What This Means For How We Design Product Careers By Jana Paulech At a Glance Who Killed the Career Ladder? explores how outdated concepts of linear career progression no longer serve product professionals. It outlines the structural, generational, and technological shifts that have “killed” the traditional ladder and proposes a compelling alternative: growth pathways.

Reporting Tools

The Product Guy

JULY 25, 2025

In this episode of How I PM, Aniket Malvankar, Head of Product (IoT) at Vantiva and Founder of Product Bricks, shares an important reminder for every product manager: support your team, but do not silently cover for broken systems. Product managers often jump into customer service, QA, or internal support. That flexibility is part of the job, but it should not become the default.

Leadership

The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2025

Summary In this episode of the Product Coalition podcast, Jay Stansell interviews Andrea Saez, head of product marketing at Turtle and co-author of 'The Product Momentum Gap.

Product Strategy

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

Feedback Software

UX Planet

JULY 28, 2025

Pixel-perfect design and clean code are two sides of the same coin called great product design. It’s not enough to design a great page/screen; you also need to turn it into clean code. Just a couple of years ago, to do that, you had to work with front-end developers. Nowadays, AI tools can help you with that. Figma Make and Anima Playground are two popular AI tools that allow you to quickly turn your design into a tangible solution.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 1, 2025

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.

Customer Feedback

Userpilot

JULY 22, 2025

What’s your biggest challenge with user onboarding? Low user activation rates High drop-off during onboarding Users not discovering key features It takes too long to build and iterate How are you currently building your user onboarding flows? Fully in-house with developer resources Using a basic open-source tour library We don’t have a formal onboarding process yet We’re looking for a no-code onboarding wizard What’s most important in an onboarding wizard solution for you

Analytic Tools

Usersnap

AUGUST 6, 2025

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.

Product Research

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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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The People of Product Management

AUGUST 4, 2025

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.

Artificial Inteligence

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2025

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.

Research Software

Gocious Blog

JULY 22, 2025

As global manufacturing markets continue to evolve, executive leaders face an increasingly complex question: How do you successfully steer your organization through a landscape defined by constant innovation, shifting customer demands, and intense competition? At the heart of this challenge lies adaptive product portfolio management , the engine that drives growth, revenue, and market positioning.

Engineering

The Product Guy

AUGUST 6, 2025

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.

Leadership

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Management

Usersnap

JULY 24, 2025

Too many product teams spend months or even millions training AI models that never deliver real value. Why? They never ask the right questions or discover the right data in the first place. This is exactly what happens when you skip structured AI data discovery. To help you avoid this trap, we teamed up with Paweł Huryn – trusted by nearly 200,000 product leaders and thousands of Product Compass subscribers to unpack his actionable AI Data Discovery Framework.

Product Research

Business of Software Conference

JULY 24, 2025

In today’s fast-moving business landscape, it’s a common scenario: you have the same ambitious goals and tight deadlines as before, but with fewer team members and tighter budgets than ever. Layoffs, budget cuts, and exhausted teams are a reality for many leaders, from CEOs to VPs of People. So, how do you achieve ambitious targets when resources are constrained?

User Testing

Userpilot

JULY 24, 2025

What’s your biggest challenge with new user activation? A solid customer lifecycle strategy starts with a strong onboarding experience. Getting users to their “aha!” moment quickly. Guiding different user segments effectively. Understanding where new users get stuck. How do you currently drive feature adoption? Driving users to adopt key features is crucial for long-term retention.

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