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Better thinking.
Better products.
Practical ideas for the decisions you make every day. Explore product fundamentals, customer discovery, strategy and career development.
The people behind Product Conversations
Perspectives worth exploring.
Meet some of the speakers featured in our journal and explore the experience behind their invitations.
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What does a product manager actually do?
A practical introduction to the decisions, relationships and outcomes at the heart of the role.
Build a roadmap around outcomes, not just features
Connect your team’s plans to customer and business changes you can explain and evaluate.
Prepare for a product interview with stronger examples
Show how you think, make decisions and learn, even when your experience comes from another role.
Product Conversations
Ideas worth discussing. People worth learning from.
A continuing webinar series connecting product managers and leaders around the questions shaping their work. Explore the opening themes and speaker features, with future editions to follow.
Product Expert Feature
Meet the people. Understand their perspective.
Meet the speakers behind Product Conversations. Each feature explains the perspective they brought to the series and why we invited them to speak with our audience.
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Find your next insight.
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Product leadership: align people before accelerating delivery
Build shared understanding of goals, constraints and decision ownership across your team.
August 2026 Product Expert Feature: Meet the Speakers Behind Strategic Roadmaps and Subscription Growth
Introducing Bruce McCarthy and Phil Carter, the speakers behind our August 2026 Product Conversations webinar.
Write a problem statement that guides real decisions
Define who needs help, what gets in their way and why solving it matters.
An MVP is the smallest useful test, not a smaller wish list
Choose a focused experiment that tests your most important assumption.
Choose product metrics that answer a useful question
Pair activity measures with evidence that customers are getting value.
Product Conversations — June 2026: Product Strategy and Leadership in the AI Era
June 2026 Product Conversations: Gibson Biddle, Ravi Mehta and Oyama Nzan on strategy, leadership and AI-powered innovation.
Put your learning into practice
Your next step in product.
Explore Pinnacle’s proposed training pathways for aspiring product managers, practitioners and leaders.