Product folks love to debate about existential topics about their own roles! I had largely ignored everything about whether Product Management is or is not dead, until I learnt about Moravec's Paradox. If you are one of those who believe Product Man…
If you’ve ever played poker, you know the feeling. You don’t get to choose the cards you are dealt. But great poker players win not because they have the best hand, but because they know how to play it. They read the table, make smart be…
"I want to be a Product Manager." I get this all the time from MBA students. When I ask them what kind of PM they want to be, or what problems they want to solve, I get silence.Here's the analogy I use.Saying "I want to be a PM" is like saying "I wa…
The end of the year is always a time to put things in perspective. In that spirit, here is what our customers don't care about and what they truly care about:Don't care about: The tool we use to manage our backlog Our favorite prioritization fra…
Season 3 of Product Leader's Journey wrapped up this month with great product leaders sharing insights into their challenges and strategies. If you missed an episode, you can find below.S3E1: Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President & CEO, SolarWindsS…
This article is a lightly-edited summary of the conversation between Inbal Shani and Rahul Abhyankar . This conversation was recorded in May 2024 when Inbal was Chief Product Officer of GitHub. She is currently Chief Product Officer of Twilio. Havi…
This weekend edition of the Product Leader's Journey newsletter contains lightly-edited excerpts of a conversation with Al Zollar , Board Member IBM , Nasdaq , BNY in Season 2 of the podcast. Al had a distinguished career of over 34 years at IBM, du…
This article contains lightly-edited excerpts of a conversation between Rahul Abhyankar, host of Product Leader’s Journey, and Raj Yavatkar, Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. It covers Raj's journey of driving innovation at Intel, …