What makes the best product companies different, and how to to build a product organization that creates high-impact products at speed in the face of uncertainty
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 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
3 Trendy AI PM Archetypes, and 1 We Actually Need Read More »
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
The Product Operating Model at Google – A Critical View Read More »
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
In his latest book, Transformed, Marty Cagan introduces the term The Product Operating Model (POM) which he defines as “How the best tech-powered companies work …— principles, practices, and competencies ”. I feel that, like Product Discovery, which Cagan also coined, the Product Operating Model is going to be an important and useful concept, but
Everyone’s figuring out their AI strategy now. But a strategy has to be guided by a vision — how the world will be different, for better or for worse, due to AI, and how these changes will affect your target market. Armed with this vision you can choose your part in the future (mission) and
Developing a Transformational Vision for AI and Beyond Read More »
Building great products — ones that deliver high value to the customers and to the company — is extremely hard. This is evident from discussions I hold with product people, who regularly report not being able to create impact. It’s also clear from data: A/B experiment statistics, feature usage data, and startup failure rates, all
We all strive for certainty — if we do X, Y will happen. Certainty is comforting; it allows us to operate without fear, doubt, or having to think too much. Many of the processes your company employs, especially strategy, roadmap, and project planning, are meant to create certainty — Here’s what we need to do
Embracing Uncertainty: A Modern Take On Strategy, Goals, and Roadmaps Read More »
In part 1 of this article series I discussed the principles high-performing companies use to accelerate and improve the quality of their decisions. In this article I want to give you specific techniques to do the same, including the ACID model, not judging decisions by their results, and publicly killing HiPPOs. This is a long
Many organizations struggle with decisions-making: both speed and quality are well below where they need to be. Key contributing factors include: While these challenges are common, slow, bad decisions are not a universal problem. Some organizations are able to make good decisions fast and at scale. In this two-part article series I’ll cover the most