The Product Guy

JANUARY 17, 2025

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. The Future of PM Leadership As we approach 2025, product management roles are transforming.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Michelle reveals her journey from content development to VP, detailing the skills and strategies crucial for product management success. Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management. .

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ranch and Dexter Bourbon Distillery, Hall discovered that successful innovation requires a bottom-up transformation focusing first on empowering frontline employees to fix inefficiencies (“stop the stupid”), then enabling middle managers to improve systems, and finally allowing leadership to pursue bigger strategic innovations.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. Leadership at Multiple Levels. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. Leadership at Multiple Levels. No Transactional Power.

Leadership 265

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Our guest, Anya Cheng, founded Taelor, combining her leadership experience at B2Cs and her knowledge of tech product management, to make it easy for men to wear stylish clothes for any occasion. A Fresh Perspective on Product Development Anya challenged common assumptions about product development strategy.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

A common question I am asked is, How can an organization speed up its product development? One way is what our guest is sharing with us today, the 3 Ps of Lean Product Development—Pipeline, Practice, and Process. His name is Steve Stucky, and he has over 25 years of experience applying lean product development. . 6:50] Pipeline.

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Productside

MARCH 6, 2025

From surfacing hidden landmines during due diligence to bringing entire product orgs under one cohesive vision, Brians got the battle scarsand the winsto prove it. Thats the dream scenario, he saidfinding a neglected asset, injecting the right leadership and dev resources, and watching it skyrocket. Technology and processes?

Technical Review 177

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 20, 2025

First, as a coach who offers strategy and leadership guidance to the person in charge of the product. Its consequently not only relevant to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and extending the product lifecycle. There are two effective ways in which the individual can be involved.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2019

Developing your product design career as an individual contributor. The other path, the one I’ll focus on in this post, continues along the journey of individual contributor : to mastery of the craft of design, to leadership without the need to manage, to above all else shipping great work. What about in five years? What’s next for me?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

My framework address five barriers to digital transformation: Lack of shared vision: A lot of companies have a generic intent to become more digital or futureproof the business, but those phrases are meaningless and generic, as opposed to a vision that is specific to the company. ” – Mike Tyson Thanks!

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is another episode in the series on a product management body of knowledge curated by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). Previously, she worked in R&D, process technology development, and as an internal innovation expert at ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Strategy consists of vision, mission, and values.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 19, 2021

Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash So many aspects in our lives are based on other people’s visions coming true. Going through history, visions which became reality changed our lives dramatically, and as technology progresses, this becomes more and more true. From my experience, there are four steps for turning a vision into reality.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The development team representatives are members of one or more cross-functional development teams. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about.

Reporting Tools 362

Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Experience Product Research 362

Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. The second line names the skills areas the learning goals belong to, which I’ll cover in more detail in the next section.

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Productside

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Michelle reveals her journey from content development to VP, detailing the skills and strategies crucial for product management success. Tune in for an inspiring discussion on leadership, innovation, and career growth in product management..

Vision 156

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 18, 2020

Developed a schedule. [5:58] 6:41] Vision: Anytime we’re thinking about a product, vision is a very important aspect of planning to get the team on the same page. [6:41] 6:41] Vision: Anytime we’re thinking about a product, vision is a very important aspect of planning to get the team on the same page.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As I explain in my book How to Lead in Product Management , setting the right goals is crucial to align stakeholders and development teams and to achieve product success. Figure 2 contains a set of cascading goals: vision, user and business goals, product goals, and sprint goals. Goals in Product Management.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Grow Your Leadership Skills. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 29, 2020

Part of the path to becoming a product master is developing as a leader. Leaders of product management need agility, influence, trust, empathy, and motivating vision. 6:15] You recently published How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

First, develop the individual product people. Second, develop the product management team. Third, develop the organisation. The following four measures will help with this: First, develop the individual product people through training, mentoring, or coaching.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Airtable ProductCentral —Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development • Sinch —Build messaging, email, and calling into your product — Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. product strategy, A&M, etc?—?but

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

She guides product leaders through defining their personal product vision then taking the right steps to make it a reality. Connection—help people feel connected to each other and the larger mission and vision of the company. Leadership is what you are doing that makes people follow you. ” – Mary Kay Ash Thanks!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? The leadership team of any company must lead the effort to create, review, and adjust the business strategy. How will you win?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] To get started, create your own Portfolio Vision Board by downloading and adapting the Product Vision Board or by recreating it in your favourite tool.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? I’m a big proponent of developing strategy with a team, but there does need to be one person accountable for it. 11:03] How is senior leadership involved in product strategy? 14:24] Share your Strategy Generation framework for developing product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is also a special interview, as a leadership coach and friend, Russel Verhey, interviewed me for his podcast, Advance Leadership Conversations. Please check that out using your favorite podcast app by searching for Advance Leadership Conversations. Useful links: Advance Leadership Conversations. Innovation Quote.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2024

In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI affects workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership. In this episode, Tiffany Price explains how AI impacts workplace culture, team dynamics, and leadership strategies, offering insights for product managers in this evolving landscape.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. Is it a rivalry, or a desire to build something better?

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