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How Top Product Teams Roadmap Through Uncertainty: Align Faster, Adapt Smarter, Deliver
Uncertainty isn’t the enemy of great product roadmaps—wishful certainty is. I anchor plans on outcomes, organize bets by time horizon and confidence, and use continuous discovery…
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Join Me in April: Build a Continuous Interviewing Habit and Unlock Real Customer Insights
This April, I’m leading a community read of Chapter 5: Continuous Interviewing from “Continuous Discovery Habits,” with a practical guide, discussion prompts, and exercises you can…
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Product Management Isn’t Dead: Why ‘Product Builders’ Will Win in the AI Era—and How to Upskill Now
“Is product management dead?” Not even close. The role is evolving as AI raises the baseline, compresses cycle time, and nudges the classic product trio toward…
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A Product Leadership System for Faster, Clearer Execution
A practical operating system for clearer ownership, smaller batches, faster decisions, stronger quality, and outcome-focused product teams.
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Outcomes vs Outputs: How I Stopped the Feature Factory and Drove Real Product Impact
Most teams say they value outcomes over outputs, yet daily habits still reward shipping. In this article, I share clear definitions, hard-won examples, and diagnostic tests…
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Staying Sane as a Product Leader: Practical Strategies I’m Using from Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
Feeling overwhelmed is rational in a world of infinite inputs and finite attention. I’m applying small, values-driven actions—guided by “Something is better than nothing”—to stay grounded…
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Inside Zipline’s Wild Pivot: My Take on Hiring Heat-Seekers and Scaling to 5,000 Hospitals
Zipline’s arc—from near-dead robotics to drone blood delivery in Rwanda—offers a standout playbook for product leaders. I break down why hiring “heat-seeking missiles for pain” beats…
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Kill Your Darlings: Why I Sunset ‘Successful’ Products to Fuel Real Portfolio Growth
Letting go of “profitable but flatlining” products is one of the hardest calls we make as product leaders, yet it’s often the move that unlocks real…
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Lost in the Woods: 5 Survival Patterns Every Product Leader Must Master Now
Feeling “lost in the woods” with your product strategy is more common than most leaders admit. I break down five survival patterns—freeze, chase shortcuts, follow the…
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March CDH Book Club: Master Experience Mapping to Align Teams and Accelerate Discovery
Join me for March’s CDH Book Club as we dive into Chapter 4: Visualizing What You Already Know. We’ll practice experience mapping to unlock team alignment,…
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Stop Blurring the Lines: Clear Product–Engineering Boundaries to Boost Quality and Prevent Burnout
Blurry lines between product and engineering lead to burnout, slow delivery, and quality problems. I share a practical model that restores clarity: product trios own the…
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Human-in-the-Loop Mastery: Proven Oversight Tactics That Elevate AI Quality and Trust
Human-in-the-loop oversight is the most reliable lever I use to improve AI quality and build trust. By combining retrieval-first pipelines, prompt engineering, and eval-driven development with…
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Why “Figma Is Not the Source of Truth”: My Playbook for Design Leadership That Scales
I share a practical playbook for design leadership built around a simple truth: Figma is not the source of truth—customers are. You’ll learn how to align…
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Stop Groupthink in Hiring: Proven Product-Led Tactics to Make Faster, Fairer Decisions
Hiring isn’t broken so much as it’s often badly designed. I unpack how AI-driven application volume, sprawling interview loops, and fuzzy criteria fuel groupthink and derail…
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Stop Measuring Output, Start Driving Outcomes: My February CDH Book Club Guide
This February, I’m hosting a “Continuous Discovery Habits” book club focused on Chapter 3: Focusing on Outcomes Over Outputs. You’ll get a practical, first-principles guide with…
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Inside Product at Heart 2026: Bold Single-Track Vision, AI Everywhere, Deeper Connections
Product at Heart 2026 is making a bold shift to a single-track format—prioritizing tighter curation, shared context, and deeper learning. Petra Wille and Teresa Torres outline…
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How I Harness AI to Supercharge Product Discovery for Faster Research, Prototyping, and Validation
AI has become my unfair advantage in product discovery, compressing weeks of research, prototyping, and validation into days. I synthesize interviews with LLMs, layer in Amplitude…
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New Year, New Product Habits: AI Workflows, Coaching Culture, and Community in 2026
I’m starting 2026 with a practical reset of how I lead continuous discovery, integrate AI workflows, and scale coaching inside product teams. In this reflection, I…
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11 Product Management Shifts Redefining 2026: Actionable Signals from Top Leaders
2026 will reward product teams that turn signals into action. In this first-person analysis, I highlight eleven shifts—from outcomes-first OKRs and continuous discovery to agentic AI…
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7 Proven Steps to Win Stakeholder Buy-In with Clarity, Data, and Lasting Trust
Buy-in is earned through a designed journey—not a single meeting. This first-person, 7-step playbook shows how to align on outcomes vs output OKRs, map stakeholders and…
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