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Product management
Discovery, prioritisation, and the decisions that do not show up on a roadmap.
- Product management2 min readAI is being judged on revenue nowThe industry conversation moved from model capability to unit economics, governance, and durable revenue. That shift changes what a working AI product has to prove.
- Product management3 min readThe AI data product manager role is not a rebrandData products became AI products, and the product manager who owns them now needs to read model behaviour, not just gather requirements and hold a roadmap.
- Product management3 min readThe AI PM job market screens for judgement, not model theoryCourses teach machine learning theory first. One month of job-posting data suggests employers screen for use-case judgement and delivery skill, and hire almost nobody at entry level.
- Product management3 min readAPI product management is a different customer, not a harder oneAPIs appear in about one in eight PM postings at a premium to the median, and become technical advice stops at learn SQL. The shift is in who your customer is.
- Product management2 min readNine things to settle before you build an AI productProduct managers who approach AI products like traditional software ship disappointing results. Three assumptions stop holding, and the differences are worth settling before design starts.
- Product management2 min readUsers tell you what hurts, not what is missingThe largest product opportunities do not arrive as customer requests. They come from watching what users work around and never think to mention.
- Product management2 min readVolume is not evidenceThe most confident voice in a product review steers decisions it should not. Quiet team members often hold better information, and that is a product risk rather than a culture complaint.
- Product management2 min readThe hard part of product management is the backlog you rejectEvery roadmap becomes a prioritisation problem where sales, design, engineering, and leadership all have defensible asks. Scoring frameworks help by forcing better arguments, not by producing answers.