Seventeen years ago, I made a pop-culture-packed presentation called The Successful Product Manager. I recently found it again and asked a simple question: How much does current me agree with 2009 me? Some ideas hold up, some need asterisks, and a couple get taken out to the woodshed.
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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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As we approach Easter, I’m reflecting on the intersection between the professional and the personal and wanted to share how product management led me to the empty tomb of Jesus.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane…? is a 1991 thriller, starring real-life sisters Lynn Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave as siblings entangled in a progressively-deranged codependent relationship. This melodrama carries an important lesson for Product Managers about setting expectations for themselves and others. < SPOILER WARNING >Key plot points of this […]
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Two different blogs mentioned me recently so I wanted to return the favor. Ray Slater Berry at Chameleon curated a helpful guide to product management blogs, and here’s what he said about mine: Perhaps one of the best product management blogs on the market. Here’s why. There’s nothing quite like it. […]
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The NBC sitcom Friends debuted in 1994 and followed the lives of six twenty-somethings living in New York City. Chandler (played by Matthew Perry) often struggles with relationships, and goes to his friends for help. Hilarity ensues. And so does a lesson in executive meetings for product managers. <spoiler warning> […]
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