Most product teams don't have a strategy problem. They have a naming problem. They call a roadmap a strategy. They call quarterly themes a strategy. They call a pile of stakeholder requests a strategy. Then they wonder why engineering feels busy, design feels fragmented, leadership feels unconvinced, and customers don't feel much of anything. I've […]
A roadmap review goes sideways faster than most PMs expect. You walk into the Q3 planning meeting with a polished deck. The feature set looks smart. Engineering sizing is in place. Design has mockups. GTM has a launch window. Then the CEO asks one question: How do we know users will pay for this? If […]
A PM I hired once asked why her X account wasn’t growing. Her posts were smart, but her profile looked anonymous and her content read like meeting notes. We fixed the packaging, tightened the message, and treated the account like a product with a clear user, funnel, and growth loop. Build Your Foundation Your PM […]
The meeting usually starts the same way. Engineering wants the model that gives the team the most headroom. Finance wants predictable cost. Legal wants fewer surprises. The CEO wants a fast answer to a deceptively simple question: should we build on OpenAI or Anthropic? That question sounds technical. It isn’t. In practice, openai vs anthropic […]
Most product teams already have one AI tab open all day. The harder question isn't whether to use AI. It's whether you're using the right model for the job in front of you. If you're a PM, the difference shows up fast. One request is a roadmap draft for next quarter. The next is a […]
Most management advice fails product managers because it assumes authority. It assumes the people doing the work report to you, your priorities become their priorities, and a clear org chart solves alignment. In product, none of that is reliably true. A PM works through influence. Engineering may disagree with your sequencing. Design may push back […]
You’re probably in one of two situations right now. Either you’re a PM trying to justify Jira Product Discovery to a finance partner who sees “another Atlassian line item,” or you’re a product leader looking at your existing Jira spend and asking a sharper question: what will this cost once the team starts using it […]
Yes, you can take notes into an interview. For Product Managers, it’s often a positive signal when used strategically, and a 2025 LinkedIn poll of 1,200 PM recruiters found that 68% view discreet note references tied to research initiative positively, while 42% of PM job postings on Indeed specify “bring portfolio/notes for case discussions,” up […]
The worst advice in product manager linkedin jobs is also the most common: update your profile, turn on Open to Work, and click Easy Apply until something sticks. That advice fails because it treats LinkedIn like a job board. It isn't. LinkedIn is a distribution system. Recruiters search it. Hiring managers sanity-check candidates on it. […]
You already know the moment this problem shows up. A launch gets approved. Leadership wants the same workflow you used last quarter, but for a new market, a new customer segment, or a new product line. You open Jira and realize the “template” lives only as a live project full of epics, stories, subtasks, comments, […]