Valentin Firak
Co-Founder, Head of Strategy & Operations @ airfocus by Lucid
Valentin leads the Go-to-Market, driving fast & efficient growth. Known for his love of spreadsheets, he spends free time with his daughters or on minimalist bike trips with just a sleeping bag.
Product Management 10 Jul 2024
How enterprise agile can transform your companyThe agile enterprise is fast-moving, flexible, and robust - capable of rapid response to unexpected challenges, events, and opportunities. Do you want to learn more about it? Let's dive deep into it in this article.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 6 Jun 2024
13 Surprising Stats About Product Management (And What They Actually Mean for You)Discover 13 unexpected things about product management. Learn how to improve your performance and strive for excellence in your product management role.
By Valentin Firak
Roadmapping 9 Oct 2022
Business Intelligence Roadmaps: How To Plan For BI OutcomesA Business Intelligence roadmap helps key stakeholders to track and visualize all of your BI data across organizational silos, over time.
By Valentin Firak
Roadmapping 19 Jul 2022
What Is the Goal or Purpose of a Roadmap?We all know how essential the roadmap is for product management success, but there is a right and not-so-right way of creating and updating your product management roadmap. Let’s remind ourselves what a roadmap is, what the goal of a roadmap is, and some examples of goal roadmap templates.
By Valentin Firak
Product Strategy 4 May 2022
Continuous Discovery and Continuous BenchmarkingIn this blog post, we look at what continuous discovery is and how the continuous nature of continuous discovery can be used to improve competitor benchmarking, too.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 29 Mar 2022
Product Operations: The Backbone of Product-led GrowthThe role of Product Ops is to create efficiency, reduce friction, and facilitate the delivery of better end products for the product management and engineering teams.
By Valentin Firak
Product Strategy 17 Mar 2022
Product Analytics and Digital Transformation - An Interview With John CutlerInterview with John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude about product analytics and digital transformation.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 22 Feb 2022
6 Common Software Development Methodologies In today’s post, we’re going to look at the six most common software development methodologies and their pros and cons.
By Valentin Firak
Feedback Management 14 Feb 2022
How To Use Customer Feedback Without Being SwampedWhat do you do with the reams of data pouring in from your customers? And what happens if you start to become overwhelmed with feedback before you’re able to action it? Read the answers in this article about using customer feedback.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 31 Dec 2021
Best Practice When Setting Product OKRs – The Consultant Perspective, With Robin ZaragozaIn this interview we speak with Robin Zaragoza, consultant and Founder & CEO of The Product Refinery about her perspective on setting product OKRs.
By Valentin Firak
Agile 10 Aug 2020
Why Creativity, Not Just Experience, Is Key To Successful Product TeamsWhen it comes to creativity vs. experience, disruptive tech is the perfect example of what can happen when creativity is allowed free-rein on a project.
By Valentin Firak
Career 12 Feb 2020
20 Ambitious and Achievable Career Goal Examples for ManagersLet’s look at some specific goal examples for project managers and product managers alike. Here are 20 ambitious and achievable career goals for managers.
By Valentin Firak
Prioritization 31 Jan 2020
3 Killer Prioritization Techniques for Building a Great Marketing Strategy What are the best prioritization methods for ranking your marketing activities? Here are prioritization techniques for building a great marketing strategy.
By Valentin Firak
Product Strategy 10 Jan 2020
What Makes a Good Manager? 15 Traits and Must-Have QualitiesGood management is crucial to maintain an efficient, productive, and happy workforce. But what makes a good manager? Which traits are essential and why?
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 5 Dec 2019
Product Manager vs Project Manager. Key Differences Between the Two JobsLet's look at the differences between a product manager and a project manager. What do their salaries, responsabilities, and expectations look like?
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 26 Nov 2019
Product Management Trends in 2020: Five Things to Watch for This YearWith 2019 drawing to a close it’s time to cast a glance into the future and make some educated guesses about product management trends in 2020.
By Valentin Firak
Career 29 Oct 2019
How To Identify Skill Gaps as a Product Manager (And More Importantly, How To Fill Them) Not every PM will have a natural aptitude or necessary experience to nail the role. But, many of these skills can be learned and developed.
By Valentin Firak
Career 29 Aug 2019
The top 3 challenges of leading a remote product teamWhat do you need to manage an effective remote product team? Product managers need to be attuned to the unique management needs of a remote team.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 15 Aug 2019
What Exactly Are a Product Manager’s Responsibilities?In this article, we focus on the responsibilities to answer the question: what exactly is it that product managers actually do?
By Valentin Firak
Product Strategy 23 Jul 2019
How To Manage Your Stakeholders as a Product Manager A product’s outcome is determined by its stakeholders. It is absolutely critical that product managers do what they can to nail stakeholder management.
By Valentin Firak
Product Management 8 Jul 2019
10 of the Most Common Mistakes Every Product Manager Should AvoidA list of 10 mistakes that every product manager should be sure to avoid, and what you can do to safeguard against them.
By Valentin Firak
Agile 11 Jun 2019
9 Common User Story Mistakes Most Product Managers MakeIn this article, we'll run through 9 of the most common user story mistakes that product managers make, as well as tips on how to do better.
By Valentin Firak
Roadmapping 28 Apr 2019
How To Create an Excellent Product Roadmap (Incl. 15 Actionable Templates)Here are the most successful Product Roadmaps used by product managers today. Make our product roadmap templates your own with the click of a button.
By Valentin Firak
Product Strategy 9 Mar 2019
Product Strategy: Achieve Product Excellence in 3 Steps Learn how to create and maintain a product strategy. Successful product managers use this technique to attract target customers and achieve their goals.
By Valentin Firak
Prioritization 14 Jun 2018
How Routine Prioritization Boosts Success: An Actionable GuideGood prioritization is often the difference between success and failure. Here's How Routine Prioritization Boosts Success.
By Valentin Firak
