Why Good Product Ideas Don’t Survive Good product ideas, ones that create significant value for the business and the users, are rare and precious things. Look at your product and you’ll immediately recognize them. These are the features that are used the most, that drive conversions, that keep your customers onboard. Think Google Search Suggestions, […]
Can you perform every task in your organization? Unless you’re a solopreneur, the answer is likely No. You’re probably very good at some types of tasks, OK or so-so at others, and have low or zero proficiency levels at most. As a product manager at Google, I could write decent product requirement documents, produce sub-par
“The Product Manager role as we know it will be obsolete by 2030.” That is the conclusion of the 2026 CPO Insights Report, a survey of 1,500+ Chief Product Officers. Some prominent founders, executives, and investors agree — AI is going to eliminate or drastically change the PM role as we know it. But why?
Last week I published this cartoon on LinkedIn. It went instantly viral: Tokens spent (as well as the other metrics shown) are of course not meaningless, but everyone got the joke: The latter point generated some interesting conversation. One commenter threw the ball back into my court: “Great point. The harder question remains. What are
There’s a certain type of meme, often called “how to create a minimal viable product”, that’s been making the rounds in the product web for years. I must have seen at least 5 original versions and they all disagree with each other. Not very originally, I felt that they all missed the mark and decided
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There’s no shortage of AI hype at the moment and that includes lots of speculation about the future (or lack there of) of product management. In this article I’ll review three PM predictions that are circulating in the product-sphere — The AI-PM, Developer PM, and No-PM futures. I’ll discuss each to see whether it is
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