The Pinnacle journal
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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Build a product portfolio that shows your reasoning
Explain the problem, decisions and learning behind your work.
Make your product vision useful beyond the presentation
Turn an ambitious direction into choices your team can use.
Run retrospectives that lead to meaningful action
Move from a discussion of frustrations to a small, owned improvement.
Plan a simple usability test before committing to a design
Observe whether people can complete a task without coaching them through it.
Product Conversations — March 2026: Product Operations and Marketplace Growth
Looking back at the March 2026 webinar with Jenny Wanger and Ben Lauzier.
Move into product management by building on what you know
Find relevant experience in your current role and develop the gaps deliberately.
Put your learning into practice
Your next step in product.
Explore Pinnacle’s proposed training pathways for aspiring product managers, practitioners and leaders.