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The Product Handbook — 119 episodes

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The First 90 Days as a Product Manager

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Mastering Planning: From Sprints to Annual Strategy

3

Calendar Management: Protecting Focus as a Product Manager

4

Leading Through Layoffs: Strategy, Stability, and Moving Forward

5

Hooked: Customer Retention Guide

6

Go-to-Market Strategy: Components, Execution, and Metrics

7

How to Validate Your Ideas with Customers

8

How do you come up with new feature ideas?

9

Product Managers — Are You the CEO of Anything?

10

How to Ask - Nay, Get - a Promotion as a Product Manager

11

Thriving as an Introvert in Product Management

12

The Good Product Manager’s Toolkit

13

The Five Dysfunctions of Product Teams and How To Fix Them

14

Effective Delegation for Product Managers and Product Leaders

15

When to Pivot: Strategy, Execution, and Communication

16

Building and Managing Customer Advisory Boards

17

Product Transformation: Leading Change Beyond Technology

18

That's a Great Question! How To Train Product Management Core Skill

19

Crafting Effective Product Problem Statements

20

Epic Product Fails: Amazon, Juicero, Apple, and Microsoft [100th Special Episode]

21

Cultivating Product Ownership: Frameworks, Mindset, and Empowerment

22

Data Products: From Analytics Layers to Self-Serve BI

23

Accessibility at Scale: WCAG Compliance and Building Inclusive Products

24

Product Analytics: Metrics, Tools, and Best Practices

25

Market Research and Competitor Analysis: From Insights to Advantage

26

The Mom Test: Talking to Customers the Right Way

27

Tell Me About a Time You Failed: Turning Mistakes into PM Growth

28

Build vs Buy: How Product Managers Make the Call

29

Winning Your Case for More Resources: How PMs Secure Engineers and Designers

30

Platform Teams: Building the Foundation for Developer Velocity

31

Product Storytelling: How to Persuade and Align Through Narrative

32

Release Management: The PM’s Guide to Shipping with Confidence

33

Product Strategy: What it is, Why it Matters, and How to Ace the Interview

34

Cracking the PM Interview: Book Review and Key Takeaways

35

Productive Sprint Retrospectives for Agile Teams

36

Pre-Mortem: How to Anticipate Failure and Strengthen Your Strategy

37

Blameless Post-Mortems: Turning Failure into Strategy

38

API Product Management: From Endpoints to Ecosystems

39

Structured Brainstorming Techniques for Product Teams

40

Handling Difficult Conversations with Engineers and Designers

41

Technical Debt: How to Identify, Prioritize, and Communicate It as a PM

42

Mergers and Acquisitions: What Happens to Products and PMs

43

Pricing Psychology: Anchoring, Decoys, and Freemium Models

44

Unit Economics for PMs: CAC, LTV, Payback Period and Why They Matter

45

The Math of Retention: Cohorts, Churn, and Compounding Growth Explained Simply

46

How to Show Leadership Without Having a “Leader” Title

47

STAR Method for PMs: Turning Your Career Stories Into Impact Statements

48

User Story Mapping: Turning User Journeys into Product Plans

49

AI and Human-Centered Product Discovery

50

Building Products: AI Tools and Side Projects for Product Managers

51

From Zero to One, from One to N: Building and Scaling Products

52

Mastering the Product Manager’s Portfolio: Skills, Strategy, and Career Growth

53

Mastering the Product Management Case Study Interview

54

Cultivating Product Sense: Empathy, Creativity, and Strategy

55

Burnout in Product Management: How to Spot It, Prevent It, and Recover with Clarity

56

Product Operations: The Engine Behind Scalable Product Teams

57

Product Trios: Building Better Products Through Collaboration

58

PRD - the Product Requirements Document: What It Is, When to Use It, and How to Write It Well

59

Heuristic Evaluation: A Usability Toolkit for Product Managers

60

Market Sizing and Competitive Analysis: TAM, SAM, SOM Explained

61

The Art of Saying No: Strategic Prioritization and Stakeholder Boundaries

62

Product Prioritization: RICE, ICE, MoSCoW and Making the Right Trade-Offs

63

Decision-Making in the Fog: Navigating Ambiguity as a Product Manager

64

The Chief Product Officer (CPO): Vision, Influence, and the Skills That Matter

65

Product-Led Growth: Turning Your Product into the Growth Engine

66

Mastering the Product-Led Organization: Structure, Strategy, and Culture

67

Marty Cagan’s Transformed: Can Your Company Really Change?

68

Marty Cagan’s Empowered: What Real Product Leadership Looks Like

69

Marty Cagan’s Inspired: Empowered Teams vs. Feature Factories

70

How to Manage Executives Without Authority (as a PM)

71

Mastering Stakeholder Management – Part 4: Ethics, Power, and Inclusive Decision-Making

72

Mastering Stakeholder Management – Part 3: Strategies, Tools, and Building Trust

73

Mastering Stakeholder Management – Part 2: Principles, Practices, and Common Challenges

74

Mastering Stakeholder Management – Part 1: Identifying and Communicating with Stakeholders

75

Product Discovery in Practice: Real-World Examples and Case Studies

76

Product Discovery: How to Find the Right Problems to Solve

77

The Product Life Cycle: What to Do from Launch to Decline

78

Escaping the Feature Factory: How to Build Outcome-Driven Product Teams

79

Agile Stage-Gate: How Hybrid Product Development Works

80

Hire This Podcast: Understanding Jobs to Be Done

81

Waterfall: The Structured Past (and Unexpected Future) of Project Management

82

Kanban, WIP Limits & the Value of Visibility

83

Crystal Agile Frameworks for Software Development

84

Minimum Lovable Product (MLP): Crafting Products People Actually Want

85

Understanding Proof of Concept in Product Development

86

AI x MVP: Building an MVP Smarter, and Faster

87

MVPs Done Right: What to Build, When to Launch, and How to Learn

88

From Sketch to Click: Prototyping in Product Development

89

Lean Startup: Build, Measure, Learn

90

SAFe or Sorry? A Guide to the Scaled Agile Framework

91

Scrum in Real Life: Roles, Rituals & the Reality Behind the Framework

92

Agile Methodologies: Principles, Practices, and Pitfalls

93

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Understanding Overconfidence and Misjudgment

94

The OODA Loop: Decision-Making for a Dynamic World

95

The Ladder of Inference in Leadership and Decision-Making

96

Mastering Second-Order Thinking

97

Wardley Maps - Strategic Planning for Business Evolution

98

Building BICEPS: A Framework for Business Impact & Sustainable Growth

99

Opportunity Solution Tree: Mapping what Matters

100

Shape Up method explained

101

Leadership is not Ownership: Rethinking Responsibility at Work

102

The Double Diamond Design Process

103

The Definitive Guide to A/B Testing

104

Your Brain, Upgraded: Mnemonics, Memory Palaces & Remembering What Matters

105

Team Topologies: Designing Teams for Flow, Focus, and Faster Delivery

106

Inverse Conway Maneuver: Design the Org to Design the System

107

Understanding and Applying Conway's Law

108

Shreyas Doshi's “Product Work Types” and LNO framework

109

Exploring the Kano Model for Customer Satisfaction

110

The Four Fits of Company Growth

111

The CIRCLES Method for Product Management

112

Strategies for Job Interviews

113

Strategies for Building and Managing AI Products

114

Mastering the North Star Metric

115

Gibson Biddle Product Strategy Frameworks

116

Four Lessons from Product Manager Interviews

117

Donella Meadows and Systems Thinking

118

Becoming and Leading a Product Team

119

Agile and RAPID Decision Making Frameworks