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Product people from around the world have unique stories to share. Guest posts are written by the product management community, and for the product management community, across all areas of product. Read content here to gain insights on a plethora of topics, from OKRs to building product teams.

When was the last time you pissed off your users off?

When was the last time you pissed off your users off?

Product and People Leader, Assaph Mehr, discusses the importance of killing features on the journey to building great products.

Assaph Mehr

Mastering the product tango: Navigating vision, constraints, and customer cravings

Mastering the product tango: Navigating vision, constraints, and customer cravings

In this post, Rudra Roy Choudhury explores the twists and turns and the highs and lows, unlocking the keys to product vision.

Rudra Choudhury

The great fallacy: “I’m the CEO of the product!"

The great fallacy: “I’m the CEO of the product!"

While a product manager should embody many traits of a CEO, says Phillip Keiken, he explains why they are - most emphatically - not the CEO of the product.

Phillip Keiken

Internationalising products: Experiences after building digital products for over 30 countries

Internationalising products: Experiences after building digital products for over 30 countries

From displaying dates and times, local payment systems through to customer mentality, internationalising a digital product can be fraught with issues to trip up the unwary. Ismail Monzon gives us a run through of some of the problems he's had to deal with when launching in new markets.

Ismael Monzon

Empathetic and kind product leadership

Empathetic and kind product leadership

Especially the last few years have highlighted the significance of effective leadership in today's fast-paced world. Navigating volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity has become essential for leaders. Simply adapting to change is no longer enough. In this guest post, product leader, Johanna Feick explains how leaders must embrace change and build-up their team's resilience to persevere.

Johanna Feick

Unconscious biases – how do they impact the product roadmap?

Unconscious biases – how do they impact the product roadmap?

Roadmaps play a crucial role in aligning product teams, maintaining focus on goals, and effectively communicating with stakeholders. However, the fluid nature of business means that product roadmaps are not impervious to change.

Jayendran Gopalsami

Storytelling and driving accountability with data

Storytelling and driving accountability with data

Product leader, James Gunaca, discusses how data-driven narratives, tailored context, and audience understanding can transform product managers into effective storytellers for better outcomes.

James Gunaca

How to succeed as a product manager building developer experiences

How to succeed as a product manager building developer experiences

Reflecting on his experiences in building consumer experiences for Windows in Microsoft and contrasting it with building data platforms for Azure and Snowflake, Product Leader, Siddarth Ramadoss shares insights into how to succeed as a product manager dealing with cloud-based products.

Siddarth Ramadoss

Creating intelligent experiences: The role of an AI Product Manager

Creating intelligent experiences: The role of an AI Product Manager

With the expanding field of data analytics, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool for data-driven decision-making in product management. In this article, we share a thought process to enable a product manager to leverage AI for product thinking to build AI driven products that solve customer problems.

Rudra Choudhury

What Netflix’s $900k product manager job tells us about AI

What Netflix’s $900k product manager job tells us about AI

It’s a tool that will be a game-changer—if businesses have the product leadership necessary to leverage it.

Nichole Mace

The fusion phenomenon: product strategy vs UX strategy

The fusion phenomenon: product strategy vs UX strategy

Phillip Keiken makes the case for the unification of product strategy and UX strategy - what he calls the fusion phenomenon. He predicts it will usher in a new era of integrated, user-centric product delivery.

Phillip Keiken

Premortems in product management; why pessimism pays

Premortems in product management; why pessimism pays

A premortem exercise can be an excellent way to identify potential risks that might affect the success of your product launch, as Jordan Jacobi explains.

Jordan Jacobi