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Competitors obsession

  Healthy competition is a good thing. It drives innovation and brings benefits to customers. However, at times a product team might get obsessed with their competitors which leads them astray.
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Competitive Research Survey

  Whether we like it or not, we all need to be competition-aware as PMs. Most of us have competitors, and understanding what they do might help us to win in the market.

No excuse not being technical

  People come to product management from different fields, engineering being just one of them. This created a divide between technical and non-technical PMs. With the rise of AI coding tools, this divide is going away fast, as most PMs can now become technical PMs.

Frameworks we no longer care about

  Is it only me, or have we stopped talking about frameworks? Long gone debates about Agile vs Waterfall, we stopped fighting over TDD vs BDD or KANO vs effort/value... it's KANO by the way, KANO is way superior.

Live and let fail

  How's an old song by Paul McCartney and a famous quote by William Blake relevant to product management and business in general? Yeah, it's one of "those" posts.

At least I am learning

  When the job market gets tough and you can't move to pastures green - prioritise learning.

Product-led organisation is not run by PMs

  A common misconception when people say Product-led org is to assume product managers are running things. That shouldn't be the case. Product-led is about the mindset of everyone.

How can we work better together?

  That's the first question you should ask when joining a new team or having a new team member.