Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Intro (0:00) Aakash: What are we going to do today? Hamel: So today we’re going to walk you through how to do evals step by step. A real live example on real data. Aakash: Do we even need evals? I heard Claude Code doesn’t use evals. Hamel: Oh my gosh, […]
You’re looking at a dashboard with too many green arrows and not enough truth. DAU is up. Feature adoption is up. Session length is up. But churn is also up, support tickets are getting worse, and the growth story starts falling apart the moment someone asks the obvious question: which metrics are moving together, and […]
You’re probably here because someone on your team still treats Jira like a filing cabinet. A designer Slacks a bug. An engineer says, “Can you make a ticket?” A PM opens Jira, types a vague summary, skips the description, throws it into the backlog, and moves on. Two days later, the team is debating what […]
A product team once showed me a board with hundreds of tickets, seven issue types, and three different definitions of “done.” Nobody trusted the status, so they added more meetings. The meetings became the system. The End of Process for Process' Sake A lot of teams don’t have a prioritization problem. They have a friction […]
You’re in a review meeting. The game pitch is polished, the target audience sounds plausible, and the roadmap looks tidy. Then someone asks the only question that matters: how do you know this is worth building? That’s where product managers get exposed. A lot of PMs in games can write a positioning memo, summarize player […]
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 […]