A lot of good has come from Ben Horowitz’s commonly cited metaphor that a product manager is the CEO of their product. …

A parable for Product Managers — Can you be emotionally moved by machine translation? The answer is amazingly, yes! Seventeen years ago, when I first started studying AI and Natural Language Processing, machine translation and speech recognition were so far from reality. They were the white whales of NLP. There’s so much nuance and variation that…

How to create a release roadmap when you are unsure what to include, particularly when facing pressure to deliver from leadership — This challenge is constantly present as a product owner. Or any area owner for that matter! How do I know that my plan will work? How can I feel confident that my roadmap is going to create a successful product? We often feel that we don’t have time to do…

I mentor product managers all over the world from one-off questions to long term mentorship engagements. I’ve decided to share some highlights from our discussions (removing any identifying information) as I’m sure others are facing similar problems. The Question Hi Katherine! I have been PM at a small eCommerce company for about…

Recently, I read a post asking what advice you’d give to folks trying to break into Product Management. There were lots of great responses including, join a Product Circle or Meetup group and great tactical feedback about doing the job before you get the title by bringing your ideas and…