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Founder-Style Leadership

But after reading many of the subsequent pieces, and talking to many product teams and product leaders about this concept, I’m convinced that most people have been missing the real point of this critically important topic.

Empowered Product Teams

What are the skills and techniques used by the best product teams at the best product companies to solve hard technology problems? I love this topic, and between the various risks (value, usability, feasibility, and viability), the various forms of prototypes for tackling these risks, and the many qualitative and quantitative techniques for testing these prototypes, there is so much to say.

Team Autonomy and AI

Through these discussions, one thing I’ve learned is that when it comes to product teams, there’s considerable confusion between the two related, but distinct, concepts of empowerment and autonomy. In this article, I’d like to clarify these two concepts, and then discuss some of the less obvious implications of AI when it comes to team autonomy, and why I think this is very profound, yet does not seem to be discussed much.

INSPIRED in the Generative AI Era

The book INSPIRED is available in hardcover, digital, and audio versions, but until now, the audio version was only available in an exclusive arrangement with Amazon, on audible.com. The audio versions of our other books have been available from all major audio book providers. The exclusive contract with Amazon has now expired,

Transformation as a Personal Journey

Change is a process of becoming. So, it’s only natural that companies undertaking a digital transformation tend to look to the future and where they want to go. Ramsey Solutions took a different approach. Rather than deciding who they wanted to become, the company started its journey by first examining who they already were.

Product, Design and AI

My co-author for this article is the design leader Bob Baxley. Bob was a long-time designer and then design leader at Apple, as well as at other leading Silicon Valley companies, and much as I write about and advise companies about product, Bob serves a similar role for the design community.

AI Product Management 2 Years In

At the end of 2023, I published an article containing my predications for the coming year where I spelled out my hopes and fears for each area that I expected to see some real change. You can read the article and judge for yourself, but as is usually the case, I think overall I was too optimistic about how soon many of these things would happen.

Disruption and Denial

The Internet was essentially a new platform, and a large part of my job (I had the role of VP Platform and Tools for Netscape Communications at the time), was to evangelize this new platform to developers and product companies, so that they could start building the new generation of connected products.At the time, the single most common objection I would get is

Creating Intelligent Products

“Applying AI to the software development process is a major research topic. There is tremendous potential for improving the productivity of the programmer, the quality of the resulting code, and the ability to maintain and enhance applications…we are working on intelligent programming environments that help users assess the impact of potential modifications, determine