A PM gets pulled into this scenario constantly. The CEO sees a competitor launch an AI copilot. Sales says customers are asking about it. Engineering says they can spin up a version quickly. The roadmap gets rearranged before anyone answers the only question that matters. Should this exist for your users, in your product, right […]
A VP asks for a major feature on Monday. Design starts mocking it up by Tuesday. Engineering wants a decision by Thursday so they can protect the sprint. Sales says three prospects asked for it. Nobody can show whether the problem is real, whether the proposed solution is the right one, or whether the request […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Why most AI content misses the leadership tier (01:57) Aakash: I’ve been looking online at all of the content on AI for PMs and I noticed two really big gaps. The first is that most of the content is written for IC PM tasks. How to […]
You're probably doing what most aspiring PM candidates do. You've got a Notion doc full of product sense prompts, a bookmarked Reddit thread, a few YouTube videos playing at 1.5x speed, and no real confidence that any of it is building interview skill. That approach fails because it confuses collecting advice with preparing for interviews. […]
A product ships on time. The demo is clean. The team solved hard technical problems. Sales gets trained, marketing launches the page, and then nothing meaningful happens. A few polite customer calls. Some trial signups. A lot of internal explanations about why the market “doesn't get it yet.” Most of the time, the market got […]
Product cannibalization is when a new product takes sales from one of your existing products, and the standard way to measure it is (Sales Lost on Existing Product / Sales of New Product) x 100. If an older product loses 200 units and the new product sells 500 units, the cannibalization rate is 40%. Most […]
A weak product idea usually sounds fine until someone asks the obvious question. “We should add social sharing to article pages.”“Why?”“It should help engagement.” That exchange kills momentum in roadmap reviews because the idea isn't wrong. It's just unfinished. The team hasn't said what will change, what result they expect, or why they believe it. […]
The most popular advice on outsourcing product development is still wrong. It treats outsourcing like a procurement exercise. Find a cheaper team, write a spec, manage the timeline, hope for the best. That mindset creates most of the failures I've seen. Good outsourcing decisions don't start with rate cards. They start with a product question: […]
A lot of PMs are in the same trap right now. The roadmap is full. The sprint board looks healthy. Teams are shipping on time, metrics are moving, and leadership still has a nagging reaction that the product feels busy instead of meaningful. I've seen this in growth teams, platform teams, and AI teams. Nobody […]
You're probably here because someone senior asked for a business canvas and made it sound trivial. A feature pitch is gaining momentum. An AI idea is floating around your roadmap. Finance wants to understand monetization. Design wants clarity on the user. Engineering wants to know what's core. Then a VP says, “Can you put together […]