Welcome to the State of Product Ops 2022

It has never been a better time for the tech product manager to learn finance! Money is becoming more expensive, you have to understand your product’s Capex and Opex to keep it off the chopping block of the finance department....

PLG metrics are the goals that an organization is trying to achieve and using to check its performance. They should be used as a cross-functional guiding light to galvanize all the different teams around....

We're joined by Karen Gutierrez and Reema Joshi from the Product Ops team at Wise. They discuss how they're improving alignment and transparency around quarterly planning at a global company with 3000 employees in 17 offices across the world, and much more....

The product management profession is notoriously mystifying and many people aren’t actually sure what product managers do. Even some product managers disagree! If that’s you don’t worry, this article will answer (almost) every question you have about the confusing product manager title....

We're kicking off the second half of S2 with the superstar Product Ops team from Pendo.io - Christine Itwaru, Rick Kadlac and Adam Siegel. Find out how Christine and her experienced team are creating company-wide transparency around building, shipping and using products, and much more....

Many orgs are opting for AI/ML solutions for their products even when they’re not really required. But why is this? And how can PMs justify the use of AI/ML? Time to ask the professionals… We posed these questions and more to experts in the field to get their advice....

12 months on, we’re unpacking exactly where product ops stands now. Is the function even necessary? Is it pivotal to product orgs or just a fresh way of painting over old problems? Let’s find out. Welcome to the State of Product Ops Report 2022....

Product ops is a function aimed to help product teams achieve better outcomes. Here, we’re going to break down the fundamentals of the function, unpacking the key responsibilities, pillars of the role, and the key aspects an org needs to focus on when building a product ops team....

My name’s Esther Porte, I’m a Senior Product Manager at MyFitnessPal. In this article, I’ll talk about big bold bets vs incremental improvements. I’ll walk you through my definitions of those notions, their limits and much more....

A whopping 60% of those who use the Agile methodology have recorded an increase in profit. That is an admirable figure, and, on that note, let us dive into Agile planning, define some terms, break down how it works and finally give you a couple of its benefits....

When I first started as the head of product operations for Cognizant we realized that there were processes that shouldn’t be done anymore. In this article, we'll talk about why we have processes, how to kill (or modify) one, and finally how we avoid creating bad processes in the first place....

Product operations are effectively PM’ing the PM experience. A key component to this is knowing who we are focusing on. So who is the product ops customer? Who are the different groups that are “users” of our work?...

How important is it to maintain a constant connection with your customers? We sat down with Rick Kelly, Fuel Cycle, to find out. Rick took us through his inspirational journey in product. Here's the highlights from the Q&A....

In this episode, we sit down with Corey Grant, Yellowfin BI, who explores his journey of breaking into product management, the opportunity and challenges of embedded products, and much more....

In this article, we'll be examining some of these principles, together with some of the things I learned from my experience working at a fast-paced organization....