Jock Busuttil's Blog: I Manage Products, page 4

Navigating your product management career

Ross Webb and I have been chatting about product management career progression.

We cover topics including:

» Thinking of visibility as a strategic competency, not self-promotion

» Controlling your narrative through regular updates

» Building cross-organisational relationships deliberately

» Mapping your stakeholders’ preferred communication styles:

The Numbers Player: Loves metrics and dataThe Story Lover: Connects through narrativesThe Executive Summary Fan: Needs the...

PRODUCTHEAD: What to consider when implementing AI in your product

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tl;dr

Implementing AI means assessing user needs and your data sources

AI technologies run the risk of creating harm — how are you planning for that?

LLMs and genAI open up new vectors for novel attacks that need to be countered

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PRODUCTHEAD: Platform product management

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Platform product management dials everything up to 11

A successful platform is continually evolving in line with user needs and emerging tech

Platform teams must recognise and respect the varying needs of their community of users

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PRODUCTHEAD: Where does the time go?

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tl;dr

On a typical dev project, the reality is around 2-3x the original estimate

Trying to go faster when you’re already moving quickly has limited effect for a lot of effort

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94: New technology alone is not the answer

I’m writing about 100 things I’ve learned the hard way about product management. You can catch up on the previous entries if you like.

Generative AI, large language models, agentic AI (and whatever comes next) each has its own strengths and weaknesses. What they’re not is a panacea or a magic bullet. New technology is not going to suddenly make all the challenges facing an organisation disappear overnight. Why? Because more often than not, those challenges are social not technological. Techno...

PRODUCTHEAD: Product-led sales / product value / context & intent

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Switching to a product-led sales movement should not be a hard pivot but a blended transition

The product must demonstrate its own value regardless of whether sales people are involved

Intent adds nuance to the classic “s...

PRODUCTHEAD: The right kind of conflict

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tl;dr

Conflict in product management is unavoidable

Some conflict is actually desirable and healthy

You can learn to assess and manage conflicts more constructively

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PRODUCTHEAD: New tech = new responsibilities

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The negative effects of social media algorithms were an early warning for the consequences of generative AI

As product managers, we have a duty of care to our users

The unpredictability of genAI poses varying risks of harm to users depending on the context

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PRODUCTHEAD: I’ve solved the whole genAI problem

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Comprehensive introductory training on large language models (LLMs)

Nonverbal communication can make assistive robots more effective

Practical suggestions to foster greater alignment between product and go-to-market teams

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PRODUCTHEAD: What a difference a year makes

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tl;dr

Empowered teams don’t work without alignment

Transparency is a precursor for alignment and trust

A clear area of focus is needed to make OKRs effective

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This week I listened to a product leader’s candid overview of the challenges they’d faced and the prog...