Product Management
Discover articles and videos in Product Management
Product Management in the Twilight Zone
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/product-management-twilight-zone • 4 min
How to Stay Effective When Uncertainty is the Only Constant
Promptframes: Evolving the Wireframe for the Age of AI
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/promptframes
Promptframes enhance wireframes with prompt writing and generative AI, boosting content fidelity and speeding up user testing. No more lorem ipsum.
(People on) Nice Teams Finish Last
https://staysaasy.com/leadership/2023/10/06/ambiguity.html • 2 min
One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts.
Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFZNzeylCc
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...
How to think about task estimation
https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/task-estimation-101 • 10 min
Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.
Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success
https://review.firstround.com/navigating-new-waters-10-tips-for-first-time-founder-success • 15+ min
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.
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rethinking-text-resizing-on-web-1047b12d2881
Airbnb has made significant strides in improving web accessibility for Hosts and guests who require larger text sizes.
Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF
https://longform.asmartbear.com/adjacency • 10 min
A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
Product Design Process
https://uxplanet.org/product-design-process-e25d5b31c581 • 8 min
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…
Bite-Sized Habits in Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/habits-in-product-management • 4 min
Tools for preventing problems
The Next 10 Years Will Be About the AI Agent Economy
https://nfx.com/post/ai-agent-marketplaces • 6 min
The next decade belongs to AI agent marketplaces. Here's why they'll be a dominant force in the AI agent economy.
How to Walk the Talk on Culture: Former HubSpot CPO Katie Burke
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-walk-the-talk-on-culture-former-hubspot-cpo-katie-burke
The culture isn’t just healthy at HubSpot: Employees exemplify the core cultural dimensions that leaders emphasize.
Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/aletiq-secures-65m-for-its-saas-tool-focused-on-product-lifecycle-management
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
Product Managing to Prevent Burnout
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/product-managing-prevent-burnout • 5 min
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's Underestimated Frontier
https://nfx.com/post/software-with-a-soul • 8 min
Software with a Soul: AI where humanness is the core value proposition. This is the direction AI is heading.
What Three Years of Writing Taught Me About Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/product-management-for-product-managers • 4 min
150 weeks of patterns, surprises, and what product managers are really working through right now.
How to Structure your Day Using Energy Levels as a Product Manager
https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/how-to-structure-your-day-using-energy-levels-as-a-product-manager • 7 min
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…
133. What Product Managers do off the clock by Product Coffee
https://anchor.fm/product-coffee/episodes/133--What-Product-Managers-do-off-the-clock-e1r39ji
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…
The design thinking approach to enterprise SEO
https://searchengineland.com/design-thinking-enterprise-seo-445053
Here’s how to create user-focused, technically feasible solutions for your enterprise site that drive long-term growth and search visibility.
AI Product Development Lifecycle: tackling uncertainty
https://blog.tryreva.com/posts/ai-product-development-lifecycle • 4 min
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…
Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business
https://review.firstround.com/vercels-path-to-product-market-fit • 15+ min
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…
The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvkL18Ue0dE
Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford University professor, and speaker who teaches strategies for building high-performing teams. She’s also the author of...
When Generative AI Meets Product Development
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/when-generative-ai-meets-product-development
Image- and text-generation tools are helping innovation groups improve ideation and creativity and gain market insights.
Product Management vs. Program Management vs. Project Management: Key Differences
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/product-management-vs-program-management-vs-project-management • 4 min
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.
119. Risk Mitigation by Product Coffee
https://anchor.fm/product-coffee/episodes/119--Risk-Mitigation-e1mhil7
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 @…
How to Build Products Quickly
https://www.departmentofproduct.com/blog/how-to-build-products-quickly • 9 min
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…
134. Test Coverage in Product (w/Adam Wanninger) by Product Coffee
https://anchor.fm/product-coffee/episodes/134--Test-Coverage-in-Product-wAdam-Wanninger-e1re16h
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…
Phase raises $13M to speed up the UX design process with its no-code platform
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/phase-raises-13m-launches-its-no-code-platform-out-of-beta-to-challenge-figma
UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user
Lean Product Design: A Playbook
https://www.browserlondon.com/blog/2023/06/23/lean-product-design-a-playbook • 14+ min
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…
Build Like a Product Manager, Think Like a General Manager
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/product-manager-to-general-manager • 4 min
How product managers can lead outcomes
How To Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy
https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-design-a-bulletproof-product-strategy-f72dfd13e3da • 8 min
Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.
Break Free from Being Mushroomed
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/break-free-from-being-mushroomed • 4 min
How to Reclaim Your Product Management Role
From Flagship Back to Fledgling: Lessons on Going Multi-Product from an Early Stripe PM
https://review.firstround.com/from-flagship-back-to-fledgling-lessons-on-going-multi-product-from-an-early-stripe-pm • 20+ min
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…
When Design Is the Problem
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-design-is-the-problem • 5 min
Responsible design thinking demands a balance between creating solutions and anticipating their future consequences.
How Go-to-Market Teams Can Grow With AI, According to HubSpot’s Head of Product
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/go-to-market-teams-ai • 5 min
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.
The "Intangible" Game: How VCs See You
https://nfx.com/post/how-vcs-see-you • 7 min
There are intangible traits that make startup founders irresistible to VCs. Learn how to sell yourself, not just your company.
Aiming to accelerate product design with AI, Trace.Space raises a seed round
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/aiming-to-accelerate-product-design-with-ai-trace-space-raises-a-seed-round
Modern product engineering requires the production of highly accurate digital simulations, allowing engineers to create prototypes and understand the
Are you designing with the right keyboard?
https://uxdesign.cc/are-you-designing-with-the-right-keyboard-ab2f02df42b6
A guide to iOS and Android keyboards.
Mid-Year Product Management Trends Update
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/product-management-trends-2025 • 3 min
What's Holding, Evolving, and Emerging
How to Unlock Product Success Through Growth Design
https://www.designerfund.com/blog/how-to-unlock-product-success-through-growth-design • 7 min
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…
Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
https://linear.app/blog/rethinking-the-startup-mvp-building-a-competitive-product • 8 min
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 is Back – And Why It's Been So Hard Since 2014
https://nfx.com/post/consumer-is-back • 9 min
Consumer software startups struggled for over a decade. Now there's new opportunity. Here's what it takes to build the next consumer unicorn.
Two Years of Product Management IRL
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/two-years-of-product-management-irl • 4 min
Learning from sharing product management stories
What is the future of Product Management?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-future-of-Product-Management/answer/John-Cutler • 1 min
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 ...
Building product alignment through design strategy
https://adobe.design/stories/leading-design/building-product-alignment-through-design-strategy • 8 min
How the design team behind Adobe GenStudio strengthens stakeholder confidence and conviction
4 Engineering Slides CEOs Love (That You Can Have For Free)
https://devinterrupted.substack.com/p/4-engineering-slides-ceos-love-that • 4 min
Never stress out before meeting your boss again.
The Verticalization of Everything
https://nfx.com/post/verticalization-of-everything • 9 min
AI is creating a massive opportunity to unbundle horizontal SaaS companies. We're on the brink of the "verticalization of everything."
Using data-driven storytelling to shape product strategy
https://adobe.design/stories/leading-design/using-data-driven-storytelling-to-shape-product-strategy • 8 min
A process for identifying the key insights and narratives in UX design research
12 Killer Wedges for Your Company's Growth
https://nfx.com/post/finding-your-killer-wedge • 12+ min
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.
Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.
https://lethain.com/multi-dimensional-tradeoffs • 4 min
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…
Mastering Solution Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/mastering-solution-product-management • 5 min
How solution product management elevates product strategy
How do we sell product design when no one is buying? — Dragan Babić
https://draganbabic.com/blog/how-do-we-sell-product-design-when-no-one-is-buying • 4 min
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…
The Five Stages of AI Agent Evolution
https://nfx.com/post/ai-agent-revolution • 8 min
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
How to write a project status report that works for your team
https://blog.trello.com/how-to-write-a-project-status-report • 7 min
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.
The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier
https://review.firstround.com/the-not-so-cookie-cutter-approach-to-company-building-8-lessons-from-zapier • 14+ min
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.
How to Write Great Tech Specs
https://hybridhacker.email/p/how-to-write-great-tech-specs • 7 min
A comprehensive guide on writing great Tech Specs (🎁 Includes Template!)
The Lighter Side of Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/the-lighter-side-of-product-management • 2 min
Cat-approved Jokes for Product People
Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders
https://review.firstround.com/unexpected-anti-patterns-for-engineering-leaders-lessons-from-stripe-uber-carta • 20+ min
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.
Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMAmj1bciww
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,...
Overcome your fear of deadlines with Parkinson's law
https://bigthink.com/business/overcome-your-deadline-fears-parkinsons-law • 3 min
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,…
2025 Trends in Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/2025-product-manager-trends • 1 min
A deeper dive on the top 5 trends
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7S6nSmOsUI
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 ...
The product design talent crisis
https://matthewstrom.com/writing/product-design-talent-crisis • 9 min
Why we should invest in the next generation of product designers
Stackable Business Models in the Age of AI
https://nfx.com/post/stackable-business-models • 7 min
Learn how AI startups can thrive with stackable business models, combining innovation, retention strategies, and scalable revenue streams for long-term success.
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
https://charity.wtf/2023/06/19/helicopter-management • 13+ min
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…
What It Takes to Build Products for Millions
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/what-it-takes-to-build-products-for • 6 min
Inside the world of consumer product management
How to create an API Product Strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxUq8EOVmLE
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...
Product Strategy Should be Messy
https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/product-strategy-should-be-messy • 2 min
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,…
How to uncover your users' real problems
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/how-to-uncover-your-users-real-problems • 3 min
Asking questions and doing discovery like Amazon, Stripe, and Y Combinator
Technology Windows: The Unseen Force Driving Your Startup
https://nfx.com/post/technology-windows • 8 min
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.
Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it
https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/product-management-is-broken-engineers • 7 min
How we've redefined the PM and engineer relationship
How To Build Habit Loops That Get Users Hooked
https://theproductmanager.com/how-to-guide/habit-loops • 9 min
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.
2025 Trends in Product Management
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/2025-trends-in-product-management • 3 min
Product Management predictions for 2025
Startup Canvas: Product Strategy and a Business Model for a New Product
https://www.productcompass.pm/p/startup-canvas • 6 min
Key questions to ask. A recommended approach. An editable template of the Startup Canvas to download.
Lone Wolf of Over-Collaborator?
https://amycmitchell.substack.com/p/lone-wolf-product-manager • 3 min
Mastering the art of product manager balance
The Silent Killer of Your Operating Practice: Fear
https://review.firstround.com/the-silent-killer-of-your-operating-practice-fear • 20+ min
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…