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The Vetting Function Nobody Owns
What a Senate campaign in Maine can teach you about proxy metrics, buyer/user splits, and shipping without QA, yeah, Product Management is a lifestyle
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Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Pt 5: "The Reckoning"
AI isn't disrupting product management as a category. It's disrupting the execution layer of it specifically. If you've been telling yourself you're on the strategic side of that line, this post is about whether that's true.
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The Role That Hollowed Itself Out: A Eulogy for Product Management
The title survived. The ceremonies survived. The Jira boards are still getting groomed. What didn't survive: the function that made product management worth having in the first place. A diagnosis.
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The Farm League, the Judas Goat, and the Bill That Always Comes Due
Or: how the AI ecosystem is running the oldest con in tech, and why so many product managers are apparently fine with that
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Who Killed the Product Manager?
(or: how we quietly dismantled the one role that understood the whole business)
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The True Religion of American Pricing Psychology
What a gallon of gas can teach you about anchoring, asymmetry, and the stubborn math of consumer behavior
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A Pragmatic PM's Guide to Generative AI
What it gets right, what it gets wrong, and how to use it without getting torched. There is no doubt that AI can greatly augment your work, and help you get to defensible positions without getting bogged into the tactical morass
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The Craft of Product Management
My near three decades in the product management trenches has reinforced that product management isn't a recipe, it is a craft, and it is a craft honed by repetition and practice.
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How We Got Here: Three Decades of Product Management's Identity Crisis
Product management has transformed significantly in my 3 decades of experience, but it has still remained true to its original goals: how to meld business context to solving customer problems
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The Toolbox Doesn't Make the Carpenter
Having been in product management as long as I have, the evolution of the tools that do product management tasks, and while they are slick, they don't make you a product manager.
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The Old Dog's New Trick: AI as a Force Multiplier in Building Technical Training
For a long time, I was a sceptic, someone who resisted the use of GenAI in my day to day. I thought that it wouldn't be able to deliver the goods. That changed when we pivoted our development process, and the tools became an essential part of the workflow.
AI and the Enterprise
Corporate AI projects are not yet driving expected productivity gains, but don't read too much into it - yet.