Product Coaching for Startups: From 0 to Product-Market Fit
Product coaching helps startups find product-market fit faster. Expert guidance for founders and small product teams from idea validation to growth.
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The OKR Framework: How to Set Goals That Drive Results
The OKR framework is more than a goal-setting template. Learn why stretch goals work, how to implement OKRs in your team, and see role-specific examples.
Usability Testing: How to Run Effective User Tests
You've shipped a feature your team spent weeks building. Usage metrics come in. They're disappointing. Users aren't completing the flow. Support tickets pile up asking how to do something that seemed obvious.
User Research Methods: The Handbook for Product Teams
A practical guide to user research methods for product teams, featuring expert insights from practitioners at GitHub, Zalando, and Riot Games.
Product-Market Fit: What It Is and How to Measure It
Product-market fit is the moment when your product stops being a solution in search of a problem and becomes the solution to a problem people are desperate to solve. Learn what PMF is, how to find it, how to measure it, and what it feels like when you've achieved it.
Product Marketing: Complete Guide for Product Teams
Learn the Four Pillars of product marketing from SVPG. Understand how product marketing and product management work together to drive product success.
10 User Story Examples + Templates for Agile Teams
A user story is a short description of a feature from the end user's perspective: As a [user type], I want [goal] so that [benefit]. This guide covers 10 real-world examples, the INVEST framework, acceptance criteria templates, and how to break epics into stories.
User Story Mapping: The Complete Guide With Examples [2026]
User story mapping is a workshop-based technique that visualizes the user's journey through your product. This complete guide includes two detailed real-world examples, MVP definition techniques, and how to pitch your story map to teams and stakeholders.
15 Product Vision Examples + Complete Guide [2026]
There’s the assumption that the “average” person has about 10 ideas in their life that could/would change the world. Very successful people have about 15-20 of these ideas. That’s interesting, isn’t it? How do you really know that an idea could become a life-changing billion-dollar product or...
The Vision-Based Product Strategy
Have you ever wondered how certain intrinsically motivated people and companies, driven by a strong sense of passion and commitment, continually change the world we live in? If you want to understand how they do it, keep reading! This blog post takes you behind the scenes of an effective and...
Product Strategy: The Essential Guide for Product Managers
Product strategy is a high-level plan that connects your product vision to execution. Learn frameworks, expert insights from SVPG, and how to create a strategy that drives real decisions.
Product Launch Checklist: 25 Steps to a Successful Release
Master your product launch with this 25-step checklist. Timeline templates, stakeholder communication guides, and rollback planning from 50+ launches.
How to Run Product Discovery That Finds Real Problems
Teams waste $29.5 billion annually on unused software features. Learn the product discovery process that prevents this—including 12 techniques, templates, and frameworks with expert insights.
How to Create a Product Roadmap: A Step-by-Step Process
A product roadmap is a visual, strategic document that communicates your product's direction, priorities, and planned releases over time. Learn the 4-step process to create roadmaps that align teams and stakeholders.
The Practical Guide to OKRs: Objectives and Key Results
What are OKRs and how do they work? Learn the complete OKR framework with practical examples, a 5-step planning process, and best practices for product teams.
Post-Mortem Meetings: How to Run Them Effectively
The post-mortem meeting just ended. An hour of finger-pointing, defensive explanations, and vague promises to "be more careful next time." No one wants to bring up issues anymore. Sound familiar? A well-run post-mortem should feel completely different.
Organic Organization: What It Is and How to Build One
An organic organization is a flexible, decentralized organizational structure that prioritizes adaptability, employee empowerment, and horizontal communication over rigid hierarchy. This guide explores what makes organic organizations work, why the famous Spotify model failed to deliver on its pr...
How to Facilitate Product Meetings That Drive Decisions
Have you ever found yourself lost in a never-ending meeting, unclear about the decisions made? Or witnessed team members act contrary to what was agreed upon? According to research, only 30% of meetings are considered productive — meaning seven out of every ten meetings fail to achieve their goals.
7 Stakeholder Management Mistakes (And How to Fix Them)
Avoid the most common stakeholder management mistakes product managers make. Learn how to identify, categorize, and communicate with stakeholders effectively.
Benefits of User Story Mapping and Creating Your Agile Story Map
Do you remember your very first software project? I remember. I was a Product Manager back in 2014 and it feels like it was yesterday. Unfortunately, I didn’t know how to prepare and define a project with story mapping. Nor did I have any clue how to define the product scope or a minimum viable...
How to Estimate User Stories: The WORD Framework for Sprint Planning
Learn the WORD framework for estimating user stories: Work effort, Overall complexity, Risk, and Deployment. Includes capacity planning template and real forecasting examples.
How to Define an MVP With User Story Mapping
In the first part, we looked at the basics of a user story map and the story mapping creation process. I hope you didn’t develop a sticky note phobia after your first story-mapping session. So, what happens after you’ve created the first version of a story map? Who do you pitch/present it to? How...
What Makes a Great Product Manager
What separates great product managers from good ones? Learn the 10 skills that define PM excellence, from AI fluency to strategic thinking.
How to Get Into Product Management in 2026
Breaking into product management without experience feels impossible. Job postings demand 3-5 years of PM experience. Bootcamps promise shortcuts for thousands of dollars. Headlines claim AI will replace product managers entirely.
Empowering Teams: How to Build Autonomous Product Development Teams
You've just finished another status meeting. Thirty minutes of your team reading out what they did yesterday, while you mentally catalog everything that needs approval before they can move forward. Later today you'll review six decisions that could have been made without you. Sound familiar?
Product Due Diligence: What It Is and How to Do It Right
70-75% of acquisitions fail. Learn the 5 key areas of product due diligence — from team evaluation to technical assessment — with this comprehensive checklist for VCs, buyers, and leaders joining new companies.
Definition of Done & Ready: What They Are and Why They Matter
Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) are team working agreements that answer two critical questions: When is work ready to start? And when is work actually finished?
How to Break Down Features: A Framework for Clean Backlog Tickets
Teams with clear feature breakdowns are 97% more likely to succeed. Learn the spike, task, tech story, and bug framework that separates organized teams from chaotic ones.
Product Coaching: What It Is and Why 86% of Companies See ROI
Product coaching delivers 700% median ROI. Learn what product coaches do, why they work, and how to find the right one for your team.
Backlog Management: The Complete Guide for Scrum & Agile Teams
Master backlog management with practical tips for Scrum teams. Learn prioritization, cleanup routines, Definition of Ready, Jira workflows, and team ownership.