Product Management

How to Stay Effective When Uncertainty is the Only Constant

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One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts.

Jiaona Zhang (JZ) is a product leader with a strong background in consumer products and extensive hiring and management experience. She is currently Senior V...

Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.

Tactical advice from seasoned founders like Thumbtack’s Marco Zappacosta and Dropbox’s Drew Houston about the biggest mistakes to avoid as a first-time startup founder.

Airbnb has made significant strides in improving web accessibility for Hosts and guests who require larger text sizes.

A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.

There is no such thing as a universal product design process. Every org is different and uses the process that works best for its needs…

Tools for preventing problems

The next decade belongs to AI agent marketplaces. Here's why they'll be a dominant force in the AI agent economy.

The culture isn’t just healthy at HubSpot: Employees exemplify the core cultural dimensions that leaders emphasize.

Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is

In this blog, Winston Hearn talks about something not often mentioned when the work of product management is discussed: burnout.

Software with a Soul: AI where humanness is the core value proposition. This is the direction AI is heading.

With product management often requiring a diverse bunch of different skill sets, it can be overwhelming to try to structure your day in a way that optimises each of the activities these skill sets are…

Lindsey, Kevin, Taj, and Lou discuss what they do off of the clock. Whether it’s contracting, inventing, tinkering, or just spending time to recharge, hear what the crew has to say about their…

Here’s how to create user-focused, technically feasible solutions for your enterprise site that drive long-term growth and search visibility.

There are well-established and effective frameworks that companies adopt when building and shipping software. Whether it’s an early-stage startup, scaling startup or a larger enterprise, there will be…

Guillermo Rauch, raised in Buenos Aires and fascinated by computers since age 7, taught himself to code and moved to San Francisco at 18. His company, Vercel — the frontend cloud service behind open…

Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford University professor, and speaker who teaches strategies for building high-performing teams. She’s also the author of...

Image- and text-generation tools are helping innovation groups improve ideation and creativity and gain market insights.

Learn the differences between product management vs. program management vs. project management from a professional with 15+ years experience. See the overlap between roles before your next role.

Taj and Lou discuss what it's like to incorporate risk into your Product work and how to take strategic bets. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter & check out our website @…

If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with…

Adam Wanninger is on the show! Adam is a FinTech Product Leader at Fortune 100 companies, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Kevin and Adam discuss how test coverage contributes to building a…

UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user

Creating a new product is an exciting process. You’ve dreamed up a killer idea, drafted some sketches and maybe even started to think about how you’d make money out of this world beating idea. But…

How product managers can lead outcomes

Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.

How to Reclaim Your Product Management Role

Drawing from her time taking products from 0 to 1 at Stripe and Watershed, Tara Seshan shares her playbook for successfully transitioning from a single-product focus to a multi-product strategy — from…

Responsible design thinking demands a balance between creating solutions and anticipating their future consequences.

Hear from HubSpot’s Head of Product on how you can use AI to create a go-to-market strategy that's easy, fast, and unified.

There are intangible traits that make startup founders irresistible to VCs. Learn how to sell yourself, not just your company.

Modern product engineering requires the production of highly accurate digital simulations, allowing engineers to create prototypes and understand the

A guide to iOS and Android keyboards.

What's Holding, Evolving, and Emerging

Design isn’t just about aesthetics or creating a great user experience—it’s a critical driver of product growth and revenue. Kate Syuma, former Head of Growth Design at Miro, shares how growth design…

Today's startup MVP is about iterating early to build the highest quality competitor to an existing idea, not validating a novel one. This journey involves refining early ideas to compete in an…

Consumer software startups struggled for over a decade. Now there's new opportunity. Here's what it takes to build the next consumer unicorn.

Learning from sharing product management stories

John Cutler's answer: The future of product management will involve a move towards The Catalyst archetype below (and Technologist for specific domains). There are a couple of reasons for this: 1. Data available to teams, affordable tooling to cross-pollinate insights, the speed of feedback, and ...

How the design team behind Adobe GenStudio strengthens stakeholder confidence and conviction

Never stress out before meeting your boss again.

AI is creating a massive opportunity to unbundle horizontal SaaS companies. We're on the brink of the "verticalization of everything."

A process for identifying the key insights and narratives in UX design research

The path to $B scale begins at seed. Orienting your company around a key "killer wedge" can help you gain traction, and prepare to grow.

In some pockets of the industry, an axiom of software development is that deploying software quickly is at odds with thoroughly testing that software. One reason that teams believe this is because a…

How solution product management elevates product strategy

The obvious answer to this question is that you don't. But for the sake of argument, let's try to think through a few options. Be aware that the title of this post has a question mark in it, and is a…

Learn about the evolution toward AI-first organizations, autonomous workflows, and how businesses can adapt to the rise of agentic AI in industries like healthcare, security, and automation

Learn how an effective project status report can cut down on meetings and messages, clear up confusion, identify and resolve issues quickly, and ensure everyone’s on the same page.

Wade Foster, founder and CEO of Zapier, shares his contrarian takes on building a billion-dollar company — from fundraising advice, go-to-market strategy, and hiring mistakes.

A comprehensive guide on writing great Tech Specs (🎁 Includes Template!)

Cat-approved Jokes for Product People

Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.

Laura Schaffer is the brand-new VP of Growth at Amplitude. Prior to this role, she spent over 10 years leading product management and growth teams at Twilio,...

If you open the news, you’ll occasionally get to read a happy headline like, “Roger, from Nearby City, has won $4 million.” Which is lovely. Good for Roger. Roger, enjoying his mansion, private jet,…

A deeper dive on the top 5 trends

Paige Costello is a beloved product leader with a reputation as a remarkable coach and mentor. She is currently the Head of Core Product at Asana, where she ...

Learn how AI startups can thrive with stackable business models, combining innovation, retention strategies, and scalable revenue streams for long-term success.

You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mista…

Inside the world of consumer product management

Hosted by Square's Lead Product Manager, Abhishek Bharadwaj, together with Department of Product and Sendbird.​In this live session, we explore:​How to devel...

Coming up with a product strategy should be messy. It's not some clean fill in the box activity. Instead it's often big messy Miro boards, multiple white boarding sessions, synthesising loads of data,…

Asking questions and doing discovery like Amazon, Stripe, and Y Combinator

Every technology has a limited open window when it's a good time to start a company. Most great companies are built in that window.

How we've redefined the PM and engineer relationship

Habit loops are a clever way to bake retention into your product strategy. Here's how to hook your users with the power of psychology.

Product Management predictions for 2025

Key questions to ask. A recommended approach. An editable template of the Startup Canvas to download.

Mastering the art of product manager balance

Amanda Schwartz Ramirez, former PayPal strategy leader and now COO advisor for startups, shares the 5 biggest fears that can derail your company's strategic planning sessions (and tactical advice for…