Product professionals who bridge AI capabilities with business realities will be vital in turning experiments into measurable results.
TLDR Product Management 2025-08-29
News & Trends
Your next job will require AI skills (8 minute read)
AI fluency has become a key hiring factor, with roles requiring skills that range from basic tool use to advanced workflow automation. This post presents a six-step framework that helps evaluate curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, and the ability to apply AI in real-world scenarios.
Why Product People Can’t Coast Through the AI Transition (4 minute read)
Most GenAI pilots fail to deliver returns, but success comes from small, practical automations. Product professionals who bridge AI capabilities with business realities will be vital in turning experiments into measurable results.
Opinions & Tutorials
Product Leadership Archetypes (8 minute read)
Product leaders fall into three archetypes: craftsperson, operator, and visionary. The most effective leaders combine deep product craft with coaching to scale teams, rather than relying on process alone.
Minimally Viable Consistency (5 minute read)
Minimally viable consistency means using only the essential shared language and structures needed to coordinate effectively, balancing clarity with flexibility based on organizational context.
Resources & Tools
Keeping Yourself Moving as a Product Manager (6 minute read)
PMs often face silence and doubt after big wins, lacking quick validation. The MOVE Model helps create momentum and signals of progress when clarity is scarce.
Roadmap: Developer Tooling for Software 3.0 (7 minute read)
Software 3.0 is here: natural language is becoming the new programming interface, and AI agents are evolving from helpers to autonomous developers. This transformation is reshaping productivity, democratizing who can build, and creating new infrastructure and standards for the next generation of software.
Miscellaneous
Running a clean reorg (6 minute read)
Reorgs can feel scary, but when done well, they clarify priorities, empower teams, and fuel long-term growth. The key is to approach them with intention: make clear tradeoffs, communicate thoughtfully, move quickly, and treat them like a product launch.
How to Define Success Criteria for UX Research (4 minute read)
Strong UX research is built on hypotheses that frame assumptions about user behavior and success criteria that define measurable validation. Incorporating behavioral, attitudinal, and business-facing metrics ensures that research effectively drives both design and business outcomes.
Quick Links
Disposable Software (2 minute read)
AI and cheap tools enable disposable, personal apps, shifting software creation from ROI constraints to pure imagination.
Treat headcount as a cost (1 minute read)
Real growth comes from clarity, tight feedback loops, and enabling small teams to execute effectively.