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Three unconventional ways to be a better product manager 

What product leaders can learn from mergers and acquisitions – Vincent Jong (CPO, Dealfront)

Inside Amex’s mobile app redesign – Jose Quesada at #mtpcon London 2025 (VP Product, Amex)

Breaking into product management: A practical guide for aspiring product professionals

The best resources for product managers in 2025

Eira is an editor for Mind the Product. She's been a business journalist, editor, and copywriter for longer than she cares to think about.

Eira Hayward

<p><em>We’ve published a huge variety of posts on the Mind the Product blog this month &#8211; we’ve looked at responsible tech, how product management can help to prevent failure in startups, managing product teams during times of uncertainty, and much more besides. In case you’ve missed any of it, here’s the rundown on our most read posts in March.</em></p>
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<h3>3 tips for product managers at companies learning how to do product</h3>
<p>Product leader <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/martarolak/?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta Rolak</a>’s post looks at how teams can undergo product transformation within their own organisation. She says communication is key: you should “overcommunicate”, and  be patient. It takes time to win trust and for the message to get through. You should also just accept you’ll get many feature requests and just “deal with it”. Finally you should find allies within the business who can help you spread the word and promote the product function.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/3-tips-for-product-managers-at-companies-learning-how-to-do-product/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3 tips for product managers at companies learning how to do product</a></p>
<h3>The role of an AI product manager</h3>
<p>In this <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProductTank Tokyo</a> talk, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiroki-nakamura/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hiroki Nakamura</a> examines how generative AI is transforming product management. Hiroki says that an AI product manager plays an important role in managing product quality, and says the essential elements of product management &#8211; user experience, business, and technology &#8211; should remain the same when using generative AI. He looks at why product management is harder with AI products and also provides some guidance and suggestions for successful outcomes.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-role-of-an-ai-product-manager/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The role of an AI product manager</a></p>
<h3>ProductTech: The industry, the discipline, have we gone too far?</h3>
<p>This post from product director <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/beckyyelland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Becky Yelland</a> asks if it’s time to stop the product management obsession with frameworks and methodologies. She asserts &#8211; with plenty of evidence &#8211; that they are over-complicating the work and alienating product teams from the rest of the business. Finally, she offers some suggestions for alternative ways of working so that product managers don’t feel bound to navigate the complex of ProductTech.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttech-the-industry-the-discipline-have-we-gone-too-far/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ProductTech: The industry, the discipline, have we gone too far?</a></p>
<h3>Tips for successful stakeholder management</h3>
<p>One of the attributes that sets great product managers apart from the good ones is their ability to manage stakeholders. This post gives you a run-through on identifying stakeholders, keeping them engaged and offers some tips on how to deal successfully with the awkward ones.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/tips-for-successful-stakeholder-management/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tips for successful stakeholder management</a></p>
<h3>Why do product launches fail?</h3>
<p>In this post, product marketing consultant <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/poornima-mohandas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Poornima Mohandas</a> examines why product launches often fail, and what we can do to tackle this situation. She runs through some of the many reasons &#8211; lack of marketing budget, no push from the top, and unfocused marketing being just a few of them &#8211; and provides some suggestions to tackle these failings.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/why-do-product-launches-fail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why do product launches fail?</a></p>
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Product Management

The key principles of PLG: Leah Tharin at #mtpcon London 2025 (Product Advisor)

How to structure your product org- Trisha Price (CPO, Pendo)

How to craft a product vision: Ebi Atawodi at #mtpcon London 2025 (Director of Product, YouTube)

Black History Month: Our favourite lessons from from Black Product Leaders at #mtpcon

The journey to SVP Product – 3 things to know (Shannon Scott, Airwallex)

How Superhuman built its AI-powered email search: Lorilyn McCue (AI Product Manager) – Product Unplugged

Lessons from Google Maps’ pricing crisis: Thor Mitchell (ex Google, Miro, CPO Executive-in-Residence)

It’s the Strategy, stupid – Andrew Martinez-Fonts (VP Product, Honeysales)

LLM workflows for product managers: 3 key takeaways (Niloufar Salehi, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley) – ProductTank SF

Top product management reads in March

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