Marty Cagan argues that as companies grow, product organizations often drift into serving internal stakeholders, documenting requirements, mediating conflicts, and allocating developer time, which crowds out customer…
Cagan argues that product discovery, the practice of validating ideas with real customers before building, is still essential in heavily regulated industries such as finance and healthcare, even though legal and…
“This post is part of the So You Want To Be a Product Manager series. Over the past two weeks, I've talked about how you don't need experience to become a product manager and how you can gain experience right now. I regularly hear from folks who want”
Lenny Rachitsky argues that performance reviews are a secret weapon of strong managers: done well, they improve performance, align expectations, and accelerate a report's career; done poorly, they drive people out. He…
Marty Cagan argues that software buyers face an overwhelming marketplace, with tens of thousands of apps and thousands of solutions per category, so simply building a product no longer guarantees adoption. To win…
This podcast episode between Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argues that product teams are flooded with data but that not all evidence carries the same weight. Low-effort signals like support tickets and app reviews are…
Teresa Torres, a product discovery coach, shares the standout books from her 2013 reading list of roughly 50 titles. She recommends a mix of sales, energy management, luck versus skill, analytics, presentation…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how product people can deliberately build communities of practice to support long-term learning. Teresa describes an introvert-friendly approach centered on a personal learning…
Lenny Rachitsky's early newsletter answers three reader questions: how to motivate engineers to hit arbitrary deadlines, where to find real PM career ladders, and how to get executives to accept more actionable customer…
Torres argues that many good ideas begin as seemingly infeasible or bad ideas, and that their value often emerges through hard work and reframing. She proposes evaluating ideas first against the team's vision and…
Marty Cagan follows up his article on product management theater by arguing that where PM theater exists, product leadership theater usually exists too. Product leaders often blame senior executives, such as non-product…
Teresa Torres shares a list of lesser-known blogs she follows, inspired by Daniel Pink's year-end recommendations. Rather than product blogs, she highlights writers covering learning, decision making, happiness…
Teresa Torres argues that acceptance criteria are often the missing piece of a user story, and that they determine when a story is ready for release. She contends that criteria should be written from the end-user's…
Teresa Torres argues that most product teams lack a clear, written vision even though everyone agrees one is important. She identifies five reasons teams skip it: unclear ownership, the discomfort of saying no, the…
Teresa Torres, a product coach and course creator, announces she is recruiting product managers and product leaders for customer interviews. She argues that after two years of teaching and coaching, she needs to…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille question whether the technology industry they have built their careers in is net positive for the world. They reflect candidly on contributing to the internet, social media, and now AI, and…
Teresa Torres profiles how Sören Weber and the Search & Flow team at trivago adopted continuous discovery habits on a mature hotel metasearch product. Despite existing user-focus rituals, the team tended to jump to…
Teresa Torres interviews Colin Murphy, a former account manager who moved toward product management and shares lessons from his job search. His core argument is that career switchers must actively sell their applicable…
Teresa Torres describes how she used her own continuous discovery methods to shape and test the book that became Continuous Discovery Habits. Rather than writing the whole book upfront and hoping it landed, she turned…
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with co-host Petra Wille, previews the 2026 Product at Heart conference. The hosts explain that curating a single-track event is harder when AI moves so quickly, so AI will…
Melissa Perri interviews two product leaders, Alicia Hurst (Group PM at JW Player, hiring for an NYC team) and Vibhor Chhabra (VP of Product at TaxJar, a company that has always been fully remote), about hiring…
The post answers a founder's question about hiring difficulty by synthesizing advice from several early-stage founders who consistently attract strong talent. It argues that hiring success comes from a compelling…
This essay explores a common feeling among product people: that they are the only one who thinks a certain way inside their company, even though conferences or outside conversations suggest otherwise. The author argues…
Lenny answers a reader whose startup grew to four PMs and who worries the team is drifting out of sync. He argues a PM team meeting can be one of the most valuable recurring meetings, but only if it has a clear purpose…