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PRODUCTHEAD: Move fast and break things – AI edition

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

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What happens when anyone in your org can build and ship product?

GenAI is creating a productivity disparity between companies using it by default and those which are not

Investors are increasingly valuing companies based on ‘revenue per employee’ (≈ efficien...

PRODUCTHEAD: Job interviews are rubbish / Least evil genAI company / The Great Flattening

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curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Job interviews are a terrible way to assess how someone will perform in role

All genAI companies are evil, but some are less evil

Accumulated inefficiency has come back to bite organisations – what to do about it

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PRODUCTHEAD: Celebrating Tomer Sharon’s legacy

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Tomer Sharon will be remembered for pioneering UX research techniques such as Experience Sampling and Google’s HEART framework

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PRODUCTHEAD: The rift between design and product

PRODUCTHEAD is a regular newsletter of product management goodness,
curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Product managers exist in part to free up the specialists to do their thing

Being the point of contact with senior executives and stakeholders tends to also make you accountable to them

Specialists’ expertise is needed to wield a tool effectively, even if it’s easy...

Are developers vibe coding themselves out of a job?

And is the increasing reliance by junior developers on AI coding assistants storing up a generational skills shortage for the future – ‘professional debt’, if you will?

Social media is awash with people saying how quick and easy it is to code when generative AI is writing it for you. This is opening up a battle on two fronts for the developer profession:

1. Some senior executives, who care about delivering more quickly and not at all about technical debt, will see coding assistants as ...

PRODUCTHEAD: Bridging cultural divides

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curated by Jock Busuttil.

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Different cultures communicate with varying directness; context heavily influences interpretation and meaning

Leadership, trust, and decision-making styles differ widely across cultural backgrounds and must be adapted to the team

Bridging cultural...

PRODUCTHEAD: Structuring teams for the work — team topologies and taxonomies

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Organisational changes will reveal weak spots in the current ways of working before you adapt them

Structure teams differently based on the nature of the work

There is value in using shared language to describe how teams differ

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PRODUCTHEAD: “It was at that moment he knew …”

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Be comfortable not having all the answers; trust your team

Prioritise the customer when balancing B2C/B2B decisions

Counteract your cognitive bias towards adding complexity by subtracting

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There is one kind of problem that I’m never worried about ha...

PRODUCTHEAD: Pragmatism versus idealism

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There’s a balance between motivating people to a goal and killing their enthusiasm with the gory detail

Just as with users and customers, we need to meet our peers where they are

In most complex organisations, product supports the organisation’s goals, not vice ve...

Cloud computing for non-technical product managers

This explainer article is an experiment for me. If you consider yourself to be a non-technical product manager, I would love to know in the comments below whether this article has been helpful and pitched at the right level for you.

To understand how cloud computing works, we’re going to start with the basic building blocks and work our way up.

In this articleIntroductionMain bits of a computerRunning software on serversClustering serversAutomation and orchestrati...