The Product Operating Model at Google – A Critical View

Anti-Patterns, Product Discovery, Product Operating Model, Product Stategy

Marty Kagan and Elias Lieberich, just published an article titled “The Product Model at Google”. It’s a good article that gets many things right, but I think there’s also a more nuanced picture that’s worth talking about. I see Google as an example of a company that used to have one of the best product

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Beyond Productivity: Gen-AI’s Deeper Use Cases

Frameworks and Tools, Product Management, Product Operating Model

By now you must have heard an awful lot about how gen-AI will “10X” tech workers’ productivity and massively cut development costs. This promise is music to the ears of executives and tech-eutopians, but currently is not backed by any rigorous research (most of the evidence comes from coding competitions and reported usage — mostly

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Prioritization Techniques Compared — Part 1

Frameworks and Tools, Prioritization, Product Management

Prioritization is the process of choosing which ideas/bets to invest in and which to postpone or park. It entails two cognitively-hard tasks: 1) evaluating the merit of each idea, and 2) comparing multiple ideas and choosing an order of precedence. If that’s not difficult enough, prioritization decisions are often a flash point of debate and

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