Beat analysis paralysis with strategies to align teams, cut through data noise, and make faster, smarter product decisions.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Snowplow explores the shift from traditional product analytics to real-time intelligence for responsive, data-driven experiences.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
As a software architect I've worked with multiple product managers over the years. Most of them position themselves as the "voice of the customer" or the "bridge between business and technology." Recently, while listening to the Software Captains podcast interview with Peter Janssens(in Dutch) about Product Management, Peter shared a quote that perfectly crystallized what effective product management really should look like in practice:| The art of simplicity
Are you on the road to success or failure? On average, 45% of product launches miss their deadline, of which 20% fail entirely. Is your product falling short? What are the successful ones doing and you’re not? We asked 9 elite product managers with a proven track record to share their experiences. Wish someone had […]| Flat Icons
At ProductPlan, we’re constantly striving to improve our products and services to better meet user needs. That’s why we were so excited to release our first-ever customer survey last month. Our customer survey was a pivotal step in our journey to thoroughly understand our customers’ challenges when using our platform. By focusing on these areas, […] The post What We’ve Learned from User Feedback: Enhancing Our Platform appeared first on ProductPlan.| ProductPlan
Calling busy product professionals! We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. That’s why we’re here to lend a helping hand. At ProductPlan, we’re committed to empowering product leaders and teams with everything they need to navigate the complexities of the […] The post The Busy Product Manager’s Guide to The 2024 State of Product Management Report appeared first on...| ProductPlan
The most successful product leaders match the natural style and strengths of their product managers to the state of the product within its lifecycle. The key to building a more effective PM team is to align the mode of operation and the team’s style to the market need.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Getting a clear picture of what you want your product manager to do is essential. This means understanding their tasks, responsibilities, and the skills they need to excel at.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Companies often crimp profits by using discounts to attract price-sensitive customers and by failing to give high-end customers reasons to spend more. A multitiered offering can use a stripped-down product (the “Good” option) to attract new customers, the existing product (“Better”) to keep current customers happy, and a feature-laden premium version (“Best”) to increase spending by customers who want more. There’s nothing new about this concept, of course—think of the differe...| Harvard Business Review
How can you transition from a background in UX design to product ops? Hugo Froes has a wealth of knowledge, experience, and advice to share on navigating the product ops function. Here we’ve got the highlights from the Q&A.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
AI-assisted engineers can code 2-5x faster, but product management work hasn't accelerated at the same pace. Rather than wait for traditional PM processes, organizations are empowering hybrid engineer-PMs, FDEs, to build directly with customers.| Drew Breunig
Communication quality is a hidden factor that can make product development longer. Yet, it is rarely considered when estimating.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Custom GPT analytics show interactions between customers and AI chatbots and offer product management immediate and rich insights into customer needs and behaviors.| CustomGPT
Delve into the significance of concept reviews, where organizations gather early feedback on new ideas for products or services. The post What Is Concept Review? Definition, Prepare and Conduct appeared first on Glossary.| Glossary
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. Note: On September 16, 2022, I wrote a post about Figma after the announcement of a $20B acquisition offer from Adobe. As it turns out, that acquisition…| Psychohistory
Insights for digital builders| Mixpanel
Limit context switching, reclaim deep focus, and boost productivity with proven tools and strategies for today’s fast-paced work life.| Tivazo
You know that sinking feeling when a “promising” proof of concept drags on for months, burns through your engineering resources, and ends with “we need more time to evaluate”? Yeah. That’s the PoC death spiral. And I’m seeing so many agentic companies falling into this trap as we help them monetize their agents at Paid. […] The post Pricing AI Proofs-of-Concept: free pilots will kill you appeared first on Arnon Shimoni.| Arnon Shimoni
I’m sometimes pulled into difficult discussions with CEOs, where I’m trying to describe systematic product-side failures that directly conflict with how the CEO sees the world. Even after dozens of similar discussions, I have only moderate success. But it seems worth framing this leadership-level challenge from both sides.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Learn how to select the perfect AI tool for your product team, assess maturity, spot must?have features, avoid common pitfalls, and harness purpose?built solutions. The post How to Choose the Right AI Tool for Your Product Team appeared first on Chisel.| Chisel
While gen-ai is touted as a productivity tool, its true potential lies in transforming the way we work and driving positive outcomes.| Itamar Gilad
Creating a user persona is simple, but getting value from it is hard. I'll share the four-step process I use to create useful personas (+ a free template).| Thoughts about Product Adoption, User Onboarding and Good UX | Userpilot Blog
The classic SaaS funnel is obsolete. AI is replacing the leaky, linear model with a single, intelligent conversation that delivers value from the very first touch. For product builders, this shift represents the single greatest opportunity to build a modern, resilient growth engine. Learn the essential principles—from delivering "Day Zero Value" to building a proactive AI partnership—to stop patching a broken system and start building the future of product-led growth.| LBZ Advisory
Learn about omnichannel customer engagement and effective strategies to implement. Enhance customer experiences, and boost loyalty and sales.| Thoughts about Product Adoption, User Onboarding and Good UX | Userpilot Blog
Find out the most important question to ask for a new product idea, or for an idea to improve an existing product.| UXM
Forget the benchmarks – the best way to track AI's capabilities is to watch which decisions experts delegate to AI.| Drew Breunig
If you haven’t read the previous article, Sergii Gudkov, our Product Lead with over 15 years in software development, shared his take on how product managers can approach their professional growth. In this article, we’ll focus on what matters most for first-time associate product managers (PdMs). While many assume the role begins with strategy and... The post How to grow as an associate product manager? Product Lead explains first appeared on .|
Some weeks, your team sails smoothly through the workflow and prioritizes, while other weeks, every task needs a follow-up, every decision drags, and you start wondering whether to tighten the rules or add more people. Many managers react by imposing hard limits on communication and stricter deadlines, hoping everyone will match their pace. However, in| | Blog on Engineering, Product Management, Transparency, Culture and many mor...
A whopping 60% of those who use the Agile methodology have recorded an increase in profit. That is an admirable figure, and, on that note, let us dive into Agile planning, define some terms, break down how it works and finally give you a couple of its benefits.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
This blog represents a list of questions you can ask when thinking like a product leader. The topic includes identifying problem & opportunity, getting business impact clarity, understanding different aspects of user experience & design, success & measurement criteria, etc. If you are starting on with an exercise to solve a business problem and therefore exploring and selecting a product, you might find these questions useful. Core Problem & Opportunity Product leaders must first establish a ...| Analytics Yogi
TL; DR: Ethical AI or Risk? Without ethical AI, Product Owners and Product Managers (PO/PMs) face a dilemma: balancing AI’s potential with its risks in product discovery and delivery. Unchecked... Read more Der Beitrag Ethical AI for Product Owners & Product Managers erschien zuerst auf Berlin Product People GmbH.| Berlin Product People GmbH
This article is a practical guide for product managers on how to effectively integrate AI as a supportive tool in their daily work. It outlines the core skills needed before adopting AI and provides actionable steps to onboard AI as a junior assistant.| | Blog on Engineering, Product Management, Transparency, Culture and many mor...
Discover the best TED Talks for product managers in 2025; insights on leadership, innovation, and strategy to level up your PM game.| Chisel
On Shape Up's concept of setting the appetite for a project.| colemanm.org
The Customer Outcome Framework is a simpler approach for bringing quantifiable strategic value to the customer versus the typical customer problems approach.| Product Management University
Transform your WooCommerce B2B store with B2BKing! Explore the features, and implement them for a competitive store experience.| LearnWoo
Part I: Shipping Containers for Thought Every so often a simple idea rewires everything. The shipping container didn’t just optimise logistics; it flattened the globe, collapsed time zones, and rewrote the economics of trade. In its geometric austerity was a quiet revolution: standardisation. Similarly, HTML and HTTP didn’t invent information exchange — any more than […]| Towards Data Science
While Product Managers are the epicenter of our organizations, customer-facing teams are our customers' eyes, ears, and voices. These teams influence our organization‘s mission and objectives.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
A product manager identifies a customer’s needs and the overall business objectives required to fulfill those needs. They determine how the product will meet the customer’s expectations, detail what success looks like, and rally the team to bring the vision into reality.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
En el último LPCxMAD, @CarlosTheSailor lanzó una provocación que me dejó pensando: ¿nos hemos convertido en víctimas de un cargo cult con los roles de Product Owner y Product Manager? A veces seguimos prácticas y roles sin cuestionar si realmente están generando el impacto que buscamos. Inspirado por su concepto #NoProducts, en este artículo te invito a reflexionar conmigo sobre si estamos perpetuando roles por inercia o si es hora de mejorar cómo trabajamos el desarrollo ágil de p...| Se hace camino al andar…
The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. I make it a regular habit to have conversations with product management directors and VPs. Most of them are not our customers. It keeps me current on the landscape of the product […]| Product Management University
Statistically, organizations that use proven methods of managing projects can manage plans that are 2.5 times more efficient. Explore the differences between the best agile frameworks and methodologies.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Discover the top 11 AI tools every product manager should try in 2025 to work faster, smarter, and build better products.| Chisel
Should you prioritize by user problems or by the impact ease and confidence of ideas? Here are the pros and cons of both.| Itamar Gilad
The American Institute for Research (AIR) reports that people with disabilities have a purchasing power of $490 billion. This market controls over $13 trillion in disposable income globally, according to the Return on Disability Organization.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
AI is not a replacement for engineers, but it can be very useful to product managers testing hypotheses and product ideas. The post AI can’t replace software engineers yet, but here is how to use it for prototyping first appeared on TechTalks.| TechTalks
Find out why B2B and Enterprise products require a different usability mindset, and why making products that are easy and satisfying to use is not necessarily key.| UXM
(this builds on my June difficult discussions [https://www.mironov.com/difficult/] post) As good product folks, we know that customers must recognize a problem before they consider buying our solution. Companies that don’t have supply chain issues (or think they don’t) are not in the market for| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Every week, I talk with CEOs who tell me they want to speed up innovation. In fact, they want to schedule it. Recently a product leader shared with me an OKR to ship one major innovation each quarter, measured as “users will give each innovative feature a top rating.” This| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
In this guide, we'll dive into the nitty-gritty of AI product management, the challenges it poses, and strategies to thrive in this thrilling field.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Our ebook will equip you with the tools and knowledge to harness AI to your advantage, whether you're a seasoned pro or just dipping your toes into the PM pond.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
In this article I go overpopular prioritization techniques and explains the the pros and cons of each.| Itamar Gilad
Learn how outcome-based pricing compares to usage-based models, and how to track API value with Moesif for better revenue and customer alignment.| Usage-Based vs. Outcome-Based Pricing for APIs | Moesif Blog
The product management profession is notoriously mystifying and many people aren’t actually sure what product managers do. Even some product managers disagree! If that’s you don’t worry, this article will answer (almost) every question you have about the confusing product manager title.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Summarizing customer feedback is one of the most common “you’ve got to try this” AI-for-product-managers cases I’ve seen, so I did an experiment, and while it’s a potentially good tool, you need to keep reading the feedback yourself. Reading feedback builds character, and I’d argue it’s a crucial part of any good product manager’s quest […]| Hate Life, Will Travel
Since OpenAI launched I’ve tried to use LLM tools to see if they can help with my work in Product — we have a strange and often-impossible job, which Cagan describes as requiring us to …| Hate Life, Will Travel
Climb the gradient of user value.| colemanm.org
Drafted by me. Free for you to use. Every company needs Product Management but Product Managers look different at every company. I am dedicated to bringing great products to market. I am dedicated to steering the team towards a successful outcome. I will try my hardest to help make forward| Jared Franklin
Explore the fundamentals of release notes by delving into important components and industry best practices. Learn how to communicate software updates effectively. The post What are Release Notes? Key Elements and Best Practices appeared first on Glossary.| Glossary
MVP is critically important to validate your product idea. This guide will teach you how to build MVP and what things to consider to avoid a failure.| | Blog on Engineering, Product Management, Transparency, Culture and many mor...
We explain the stages of early product development and break down the best tools for building an MVP using the no-code approach.| | Blog on Engineering, Product Management, Transparency, Culture and many mor...
Building a product is only the beginning of the journey. The real challenge lies in successfully analyzing and monetizing it. In a recent podcast with MAN Digital, we delved into these complexities. If you're curious about our history and the path that brought us here, you can check out the first part of our interview.| | Blog on Engineering, Product Management, Transparency, Culture and many mor...
Finding the right roadmap can be tricky as it depends on your product, your team, and who is going to be viewing your roadmap. To simplify things here’s some guidance on how to select the right product roadmap for your team.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
A strong product vision is essential for success. But what exactly is a product vision, and why does it matter so much?| AWA Global - Adventures with Agile
Debbie Blanchard and Olivia Helliwell share their experience leading a year-long cross-government co-design of the product manager role for the Capability Framework.| digitalpeople.blog.gov.uk
If you’re faced with retiring a product, or are considering whether it’s time to do so, here are some tips for retiring digital products.| UXM
We’ve got the 10 best metrics for customer retention, all organized in one neat list for you to browse through.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
The 3 core challenges that every product company must tackle: Uncertainty, Misalignment, and Culture, and what you can do about them.| Itamar Gilad
No matter what role you play—product management, product marketing, sales, customer onboarding, or account management—if your starting point isn’t quantifiable customer value, fuhgeddaboudit! Nothing else matters. Period. End of story. I know firsthand how easy it is to get caught up in your own goals—corporate goals, sales targets, marketing KPIs, retention quotas. Before you know […]| 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. Here are the top 3 reasons.| Product Management University
Discover the secret product pros have been sleeping on – customer feedback. Including shocking statistics and five steps to ensure you make better use of feedback in your roadmap.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
What is neuromarketing? Read on to learn about this expanding industry and how businesses can use this cutting-edge technology to understand customers and sell products.| UNext
In the long term, a pricing war may be harmful to firms. Discover how to avoid or effectively manage a price war by learning about its impacts.| UNext
What is an ethical pricing strategy? What are the ways to establish ethical pricing in your business? Learn everything about ethical pricing in this blog.| UNext
The article will discuss what value-based pricing is, value pricing examples, how to implement value-based pricing and other relevant facts.| UNext
Psychological pricing is a pricing strategy used to influence customer perception. In this blog, you’ll learn how psychological pricing works and why we need it.| UNext
Why 100% utilization slows teams: Learn how optimal utilization (70-85%), queuing theory can help you get more done by doing less.| Show Me The Data
This chapter was added to the 20-year anniversary edition of 1995 and is a transcript of a paper Brooks wrote back in 1986 titled "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". In it, Brooks addresses the essential tasks of building software.| @hgraca
Documentation is needed. Others need to understand what our application is, what it does how it does it, how it behaves. The application code, as well, needs to be understood, not only by the machine but also by the next developer reading it. We need to document all the way from a faraway view of the system to a detailed view of the system. Then the question is: What and how to document?| @hgraca
Plenty of projects, if not the vast majority, end up getting delayed... Some more than twice the initial estimated time and cost. This happened up until 1986, when the book was published, but it still happens today. I feel it is, sadly, very common. But how does this happen? How can we prevent it?| @hgraca
The challenge is not simply to build something that "works". It is to build something that really works in the way the end user needs it to work, with conceptual consistency, with minimal technical bugs, and that can be maintained and extended throughout a long life.| @hgraca
The work quality and efficiency of a crafter depends a lot on the tools at hand. In this chapter, Brooks makes a case for this statement validity for software developers as well and gives a list of…| @hgraca
Voice of the customer is the process of collecting feedback and insights directly from customers in an effort to understand their expectations, needs, pain points, and overall experience with your product.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
Shifting to the cloud isn’t just a tech challenge—it’s a business transformation. Learn key lessons from a product leader’s real-world experience.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
As B2B offerings become more commoditized, the subjective, sometimes quite personal considerations of business customers are increasingly important in purchases. To discover what matters most to B2B buyers, the consulting firm Bain analyzed scores of quantitative and qualitative customer studies. All told, it identified 40 discrete “elements of value,” which fall into five categories: table stakes, functional, ease of doing business, individual, and inspirational. The elements range from ...| Harvard Business Review
As tech product managers, we’re often pitching the need for larger development teams. There’s an implied revenue obligation, though, that we should understand. Here are some back-of-the-envelope numbers — in three steps — for a likely discussion with your CFO or General Manager. [1] R&D as a Portion of| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
OOPSI offers an opportunity to collaborate, align the team towards value, and get real concrete focus for what you're doing next.| Avanscoperta Blog
A new wave of progress is sweeping through product management - design thinking. Whether you’ve heard of it or not, design thinking is a great tool for any PM to have in their belt. Improving focus on the user and innovation - what more could you ask for in a product management process?| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
This product end-of-life recipe has been hiding on my hard drive for dog’s years, but never got published. It’s the natural companion to my Customer-Side EOL post. When it’s time to retire (aka sunset aka end-of-life aka put a fork in) a commercial product or service, here’| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
AI is changing how product managers learn. It's like smart text editors changing how grade schoolers now learn spelling and grammar.| Product Management University
Portfolio positioning is the key to making product positioning more strategic, plus it gives sales and marketing a simpler and more differentiating story.| Product Management University
Very few companies are truly data-driven. Here are four levels of proficiency that will up your data game.| Itamar Gilad
Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams (pushing us to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization [http://www.mironov.com/4laws1/]) and that all of the profits are in the nth copy (thus The Law of Build| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
The AI fueled product manager is the best version of yourself and gives product leaders a team with stronger market savvy that operates more strategically.| Product Management University
Digital health apps are reshaping healthcare and transforming patients’ lives with every download. Whether it’s through remote patient monitoring, collecting accurate health data, connection to other patients, improving workflow efficiency and experience to ease the burden on physicians, or even virtual consults, the possibilities these apps open up often seem endless. Universities and academic institutions […] The post From Research to Reality: Overcoming Challenges in Academic Digital...| MindSea
Most product companies have a few things in their roadmaps that are specifically for single customers – I call these sales one-offs. But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem [https://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Product management lives at the intersection of business, technology, UX, and arguably now, CX. This important function plays a critical role in ensuring that products meet customer needs and expectations.| Product-Led Alliance | Product-Led Growth
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If you're thinking of running an early access program (a.k.a. beta testing) find out some tips to ensure that you get the most out it.| UXM
