Lenny Rachitsky shares five strategies from his own early career for people in their 20s deciding on roles, quitting jobs, and new ventures. He argues against over-optimizing for resume checkboxes, follows interests…
Marty Cagan answers common follow-up questions about product vision, clarifying how it differs from a roadmap and how it should be scoped, owned, detailed and maintained. He argues a vision should describe a desired end…
Cagan argues that many companies confuse a product vision with a mission statement, a slogan of purpose that does not do the work a product vision must do. He also criticizes the practice of each product team inventing…
This edition of Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter answers a reader question by curating his favorite product management templates and frameworks in one place. The collection spans 1-pagers and PRDs, business and team…
Melissa Perri argues that the sudden shift to distributed work during COVID left many teams disconnected, and that the core problem is missing the informal stories and interactions that build trust and candor. She…
Lea Hickman and Marty Cagan argue that many company transformations to empowered product teams fail because key conditions are missing. They present ten keys, spanning senior leadership support, reframing technology as…
Melissa Perri argues that when several product teams must deliver a shared cross-team integration, companies need a deliberate coordination model or the work stalls. She describes two strategies: dual responsibility…
This post examines how fast-growing B2B startups converted their first users into paying customers, grouping them into three early sales motions: bottom-up self-service, bottom-up with inside sales, and outbound…
The post examines how fast-growing B2B companies converted early free users into paying customers. It maps three early go-to-market strategies (bottom-up self-service, bottom-up with inside sales, and outbound sales)…
Lenny Rachitsky addresses the tension managers face between incorporating team input and making firm decisions themselves. He argues that managers must often overrule their teams, and offers five strategies to balance…
Melissa Perri argues that a new Chief Product Officer must shift from viewing executives as obstacles to seeing them as teammates with their own goals and constraints. The essay stresses that the CEO relationship is the…
Melissa Perri interviews Brian Bhuta, CPO at Signify Health, about how product leaders gain trust and influence, especially when joining a team full of resistance. Bhuta argues that influence is an advanced form of…
Cheryl Michael, CPO of CentralReach, argues that product leaders who want to act with confidence need a structured, data-driven approach to product operations rather than relying on intuition alone. She frames product…
A guest-written post in which an SEO leader lays out a strategy for an early-stage company to compete with entrenched incumbents: build many valuable, templated pages targeting long-tail keywords, using proprietary…
The author, who onboarded fully remotely at Produx Labs during the COVID-19 pandemic, argues that starting a job virtually is daunting but has real upsides. Remote hiring signals the company values the role, offers…
In this interview from Melissa Perri's CPO Accelerator series, Abbie Moore, CPO of the non-profit Adopt-A-Pet, explains that product leadership at a non-profit shares most fundamentals with for-profit work: customer…
The article argues that Chief Product Officer roles have multiplied since 2020 as companies become more customer-centric, but the title is inconsistently applied and poorly defined. It distinguishes the CPO, who sets…
Teresa Torres argues that product teams must map the opportunity space before solving problems, because customer interviews surface far more needs, pain points, and desires than any team can address. Treating…
Lenny Rachitsky investigates how fast-growing B2B companies won their first ten customers, drawing on interviews and stories from firms like Figma, Stripe, Slack, Shopify and Airtable. He finds that nearly every company…
Christian Idiodi argues that hiring experienced product people is not enough, because even strong hires lack the company-specific context, decision-making knowledge, and relationships needed to succeed. Standard…
Lenny Rachitsky answers a reader struggling with frequent reorgs, arguing they can accelerate careers and offering five tactical moves to position yourself for bigger roles. He then brings in executive coach Katherine…
Lenny Rachitsky answers an investor's question about evaluating marketplace ideas by arguing that the business fundamentals matter more than the marketplace structure itself. The free preview lays out the first several…
Lenny Rachitsky shares how he evaluates marketplace business ideas after reviewing 100+ companies. He argues that founders and investors should first test the underlying business against seven core criteria…
This interview with Siamak Khorrami, Product Operations and Governance Lead at ATB Financial, a government-owned Canadian bank, describes how the bank built a product management capability during a multi-year digital…
Lenny answers a reader's question about having separate design and engineering roadmaps, arguing that cross-functional teams should converge on one source-of-truth roadmap. He outlines the core benefits of a shared…
Marty Cagan offers a curated starting path for aspiring product managers who are overwhelmed by contradictory online advice. He argues that the product manager role is about ensuring what gets built is both valuable and…
Teresa Torres argues that discovery teams should be judged by whether their discovery work actually moves a desired product outcome, tracked as absolute progress quarter over quarter rather than percent of a goal. Since…
Lenny Rachitsky and Casey Winters surveyed 20 experienced growth practitioners to define what good and great retention looks like across business types. They asked for benchmarks on user retention at six months and net…
Christian Idiodi, an SVPG partner and Black leader in tech, writes about the personal weight of racial injustice in America and asks why tech companies, which tackle enormous problems like aging and space colonization…
Lenny Rachitsky shares advice, drawn from researcher Matt Gallivan, on which questions to ask users to judge product-market fit. He recommends a survey for 100+ active users and interviews for smaller bases, while…