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Evolving Your Product Strategy: 3 Principles for Successful AI Integration
For product businesses, embracing the transformative power of AI means incorporating it in a robust, relevant, and sustainable way. Navigate the challenges of AI integration with this guide.
Nishant Saxena
Nishant is a product leader and business development consultant with more than a decade of experience. He uses his knowledge of AI and ML to inform business strategies, most recently in building intelligent supply chains for a global food and beverage company. By spearheading innovative approaches at organizations including Royal Caribbean Group and Carnival Cruise Lines, he has helped teams evolve, embrace challenges, and deliver lasting value.
HiPPOs and the Product Roadmap: How to Manage Senior Stakeholder Intervention
Don’t let someone’s intuition overshadow data-driven decision-making. Use these strategies to manage the highest-paid person’s opinions (HiPPO) and build robust, consistent processes around your product roadmap.
Ryan Strong
Ryan is a senior product manager and startup CEO with more than a decade of experience building innovative products. His previous roles include Director of Product Management at 7-Eleven, where he played a key role in creating the first cashierless store, and Product Manager at AIG Retirement. Ryan has led both software and hardware projects using data to guide and validate at every stage of the process.
Product Manager vs. Product Owner: Who’s Who?
Product management has evolved to encompass numerous roles, each with its own skill set and knowledge. So which one does your business need?
Douglas L. Ringer
Doug is a senior product manager and executive coach who has led teams at Fortune 500 companies including GE, Honeywell, and Ericsson. Over his two decades of experience, he has helped numerous businesses increase efficiency, revenue, and product quality.
How to Build AI Product Strategies and Teams
Great AI products begin with an AI product strategy. Tackle complex development projects with this step-by-step planning guide.
Mayank Mittal
Mayank is a product manager who has built products for GE, The Emirates Group, KPMG, and Kraft Heinz, and launched two startups in the IoT and AI spaces. Mayank specializes in Agile-based execution of robust go-to-market strategies. He holds a master’s degree in information systems management from Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of The Art of Building Great Products.
Getting Started in AI Product Management
The booming AI product market is growing companies and careers. This primer on AI tech and product management will help you thrive in this fast-moving field.
Mayank Mittal
Mayank is a product manager who has built products for GE, The Emirates Group, KPMG, and Kraft Heinz, and launched two startups in the IoT and AI spaces. Mayank specializes in Agile-based execution of robust go-to-market strategies. He holds a master’s degree in information systems management from Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of The Art of Building Great Products.
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Keeping Sight of the Forest: Risk Management and Creativity in an Agile Ecosystem
Agile has a reputation for delivering results in uncertain times and high-risk industries. But when risk management turns into a culture of total risk aversion, you may find that it comes at the cost of innovation.
Scott Lee
Scott is a product manager and consultant with more than eight years of experience working in global markets for companies like LVMH, Kering, and Richemont, as well as startups at all stages of development, from pre-seed to scaling.
How to Define an MVP Scope in 3 Hours
Scoping an MVP doesn’t have to take days. Product manager Phillip Wood explains how he gathers product specialists, designers, and engineers to brainstorm features, pare them down, and create wireframes—all in a few hours.
Phillip Wood
Phil is a senior product leader with 17 years of fintech experience. He has led consulting engagements with Visa, Mastercard, and TD Bank, and built successful payment and business loan products with fintech startups. Phil has a record of driving increased user engagement through better product and UX design.
Design Sprints: Fostering Creativity Through Constraints
How can creativity thrive in an environment of rules and set processes? The creative constraints introduced by design sprints can help product managers find the midpoint between structure and chaos.
Daniel Hatton
Daniel is an innovation and product manager with seven years of experience at PwC, and a track record of working creatively and entrepreneurially to bring ideas to life and generate new value streams.
Growth Product Management: What You Need to Know
Growth product managers are now a mainstay of Silicon Valley, but what do they do, how do they work, and what value do they bring? Find out in this guide to an increasingly vital product role.
Philippe Araujo
As a growth product manager, Agile expert, and digital innovation consultant, Philippe helps clients, both startups and established companies, use data to deliver an improved user experience and increase product performance.
How to Use Your Product Management Experience to Ride the AI Wave
Organizations are investing in AI initiatives and seeking product experts to lead them. Here’s how you can leverage diverse industry experience and capitalize on the rising demand for product managers in AI.
Adrian Gonzalez
Adrian is an AI and ML specialist who has held multiple roles in product and project management and consulting. He has taught at MIT and regularly lectures at the university level on AI project management, ethics, and big data.
Running a Successful North Star Metric Workshop for Product Teams
A North Star metric is a useful tool that can align and motivate your product team. This guide will help you facilitate a productive, creative workshop that results in a strong metric.
Katie Shevlin
Katie has more than a decade of experience reporting on innovations in business and technology. She has worked on content for brands including McDonald’s, Telstra, and Hewlett Packard, and is Senior Editor of the Toptal Projects and Product Blogs.
Embracing an “Aha!” Moment: Building Trust to Effect Change
What happens when you have a big idea but not the authority to make it happen? Earning trust is the key to influencing without authority.
Jerry Gutierrez
Jerry has extensive experience working in organizational governance, digital and IT asset management, marketing analysis, and e-commerce.
Source Code QA: It’s Not Just for Developers Anymore
For product managers concerned about building a solid foundation for product development and eliminating risks, defining and implementing a systematic software QA process is essential.
Costas Voliotis
A product leader and technologist, Costas has 25+ years of experience supervising the full life cycle of sophisticated product development.
Product Backlog Prioritization With Multiple Key Stakeholders: A Case Study
Managing conflicting requests from product stakeholders can be time-consuming. Learn how to prioritize product backlog items with multiple stakeholders through a dedicated workshop.
Chris Sykes
Chris is a passionate Agile practitioner and a Waterfall professional.
Inside Toptal’s Product Team
Toptal’s SVP of Product shares the internal workings of a world-class remote product team and what it takes to work at the greatest talent company in the world.
Kleanthis Georgaris
As Toptal’s GM of Marketplace, Kleanthis leads the development of Toptal’s exclusive self-service jobs platform, connecting top talent with world-leading brands. Previously Toptal’s SVP of Product, he collaborates closely with operations and engineering teams to provide seamless, on-demand experiences. Kleanthis specializes in digital talent networks and product strategy, drawing on his background from roles at Microsoft, McKinsey, multiple startups, and his own entrepreneurial ventures.
Suddenly Remote: Product Managers in Transition
There are numerous product manager challenges in the shift to remote. Experienced remote product managers share their best practices on how leaders make the most of remote working.
Egle Merkyte
Egle is a professional product manager with a background in international media.
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