David Pereira's take on the fake PM problem landed in my inbox last week, and one line has stayed with me: "If you removed the roadmap and the Jira board, would you still know what to do?" I've been …
The Hardware Illusion: Why AI Agents, Not Gadgets, Are the Real Paradigm Shift
In 2009, Palm unveiled webOS — software so good that Steve Jobs allegedly panicked. Multi-tasking, card-based navigation, developer-friendly APIs, seamless notifications. By most accounts it was …
The Orchestrator’s Era: Why Your Feature Roadmap is Obsolete in an Agentic World
Most product roadmaps I see today look almost identical to ones from five years ago. A prioritised backlog, ranked features, a launch plan, a success metric. The framework is solid. The problem is the …
The Brittleness Paradox: Why AI Governance Is Now a Product Problem
For more than twenty-five years, I have watched technology cycles move from the "magic" phase to the "utility" phase. I remember the early days at Nokia when we thought the mobile phone was just a …
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The AI Helper I Didn’t Expect
I never expected to become an AI enthusiast. As someone who has spent 25 years leading product and technology teams, I have seen every wave of revolutionary technology roll through the corporate …
The Great AI Sobriety Test: Is Your Product Team Ready for Zero-Cost Execution?
For decades, product management has been defined by the management of scarcity. There were always more ideas than engineering hours, more "desirability" questions than research budgets, and more …