The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With AI automating workflows and tools making data analysis seamless, what will truly set product managers apart in 2025? While technical skills are still essential, the ability to influence, negotiate, tell compelling stories, and lead with empathy is now a critical differentiator. Soft skills.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] What’s more, you’ll struggle to determine the right product backlog items. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Here are some classics on product manager hiring along with value-added commentary. Meanwhile, the product management hiring industry has apparently made a fetish out of its own formulaic interview questions which only prove that you’ve exhaustively studied the rote patterns they rely on. Plus a bonus.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

But this only works if the product and market are stable and experience little change. For digital products, this is hardly ever the case in my experience. New technologies alone introduce change and uncertainty—think of the Internet of Things, Blockchain, machine learning, and generative AI, for example.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking is an essential part of delivering a successful digital transformation. What are the benefits of taking on such an initiative, and how does product management give you the best possible chance of success? How Does Product Management Enable Digital Transformation?

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. Sentiment analysis is often used to review survey results from customer-service interactions, product reviews, etc. The idea here is to understand how strongly someone feels about the topic.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Introduction In the world of product management and innovation, market research is like a compass.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The trouble is, you might not know until you spend some time reviewing your specific backlog. Old product backlogs can be the place where ideas go to die. Tweet This If you’re a product manager who’s coming into a new team, chances are high that you’re inheriting a backlog. And in some cases, they might be a mix of both.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

No unnecessary leads: Unlike sales-led growth, product-led growth has a lesser amount of unnecessary leads, hence a better conversion rate. Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you are not sure which time box is right for you, then start with one month and hold weekly review meetings where you assess the progress and decide if and how to continue. As helpful as it is to create a product strategy, it is not enough. The world doesn’t stand still; markets and technologies change; new competitors emerge.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In a similar fashion, AI is changing how product managers learn best practices, and it will all be for the better when you see the results. Common Scenarios Before & After AI Here are a few common product management scenarios that exemplify the stark difference between learning best practices before and with AI.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I suspect this is the edition most of you have been waiting for: in-depth compensation benchmarks for product manager roles by level. Salary transparency is an increasingly important topic in tech, as professionals are keen to maximize their compensation, and companies are looking to hire and retain top talent.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Let me clarify that by channel partner I mean a large ecosystem of value added resellers (VARs), solution providers, service providers/managed service providers and systems integrators (SIs).

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For forward-thinking online retailers, this means hiring an eCommerce product manager. What Is An eCommerce Product Manager’s Product? Although the job description can vary from company to company and across industries, product managers all share at least a couple of common responsibilities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Subscribe now Chatbot tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are quickly becoming de facto co-pilots for product managers. And 85% are using one weekly 🤯 Robert Bye, a PM at Figma, shared a common sentiment: When was the last time a new tool went from non-existent to daily use for the majority of product managers?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

With privacy concerns, AI-driven decisions, and increasing competition, trust is becoming the ultimate differentiator for PMs who want to build lasting customer relationships. So, how can product managers proactively build and protect trust in their products? Exclusive deep dives like this one on strategic influence.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. Think about it—what is AI best at? .”

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Photo by Alexei on Pxhere A few months after I joined Twiggle as the VP of Product, the CEO gave me a list of competitors to review. It impacted everything from the depth of the underlying technology to the product itself, the go-to-market strategy, and the entire business model. It wasn’t just a random selection.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That is a reason for having, for example, the Sprint Review with stakeholders and customers.) ???? The aide of the product manager : “Help your product manager think through products by making difficult tradeoffs and removing roadblocks.” The Product Owner does not “drive the sprint process.”

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

The importance of culture-driven leadership in product management. Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. Final thoughts.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the same time, bigger product backlog changes can trigger roadmap updates, which, in turn, can lead to strategy adaptations, as I explain in more detail in the article My Product Strategy Model. As your product develops and grows, and as the market and technologies evolve, you must adapt the product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

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.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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