Welcome to Product Management Meets Pop Culture, or PMMPC for short. This is my blog where we use movies, comics, and other pop culture ephemera to illustrate product management lessons that anyone can start using immediately.
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Another year is wrapping up, which means it’s time to look back at some of the highs, lows, and product insights from a year where stranded astronauts came home, AI got better and worse at the same time, Richard Ayoade finally smiled, and thieves broke into the Louvre with a furniture lift. Let’s start at the start!
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Earlier this year, I did something every product manager secretly yearns to do: I built a product where I was the product manager, developer, designer, key stakeholder, target customer, and executive sponsor. It was remarkably easy to get roadmap alignment.
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One of the challenges with AI right now is that everyone wants to experiment with it. And they should. Product teams need room to explore, understand what’s possible, and figure out where AI might make a difference in our customers’ lives. But AI, like a kite, needs a string. Hear me out.
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The Thompson Twin’s 1983 pop song “We Are Detective” tells the playful story of detectives who are being spied on by other detectives, and there are lessons in here for how product management and UX can better cooperate to drive bigger business outcomes.
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Another year is in the books, which means it’s time to look back at some of the highs, lows, and product insights from a time where generative AI exploded and superhero movies discovered that audiences might actually expect them to be good. Let’s dive in!
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I love jokes because they can accomplish multiple objectives at once: Break tension, reduce stress, and pave the way for actual conversation. Feel free to deploy today’s #PMJoke at your convenience
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