145
AI & Technical Product
9 min read
Designing AI Agents: Set the Autonomy Boundary Before the Workflow
Choose between rules, assistance, and an agent by defining action scope, permissions, confirmation, recovery, audit, and human takeover.
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Product notes for people who build.
Practical essays on product strategy, discovery, development, technology, and the work of turning ideas into useful products.
144
Design & Delivery
9 min read
Accessibility Acceptance Criteria That a Product Team Can Actually Test
Turn accessibility needs and WCAG criteria into change-specific evidence across automation, keyboard checks, assistive technology and known limits.
143
Measurement & Growth
10 min read
Product Decisions Without A/B Tests: A Causal Brief
Brief an observational causal analysis with an explicit question, causal structure, confounders, identification limits, and a bounded product decision.
142
Design & Delivery
9 min read
Incident Learning for Product Teams
Define the product manager's role before, during, and after an incident, from user impact and communication to corrective product decisions.
141
Measurement & Growth
10 min read
Product Analytics Event Governance: Keep the Data Contract Trustworthy
Change an analytics event without breaking meaning, dashboards, cohorts, privacy controls, ownership, or historical comparison.
140
Design & Delivery
11 min read
API Product Design: Choose the Contract the Consumer Can Operate
Design an API as a supported product surface across interaction patterns, authorisation, retries, errors, pagination, webhooks, compatibility, and economics.
139
Product Strategy
9 min read
Product Growth Models: Find the Constraint Before Funding the Roadmap
Build a stock-and-flow growth model, test cohort retention and loop assumptions, and use scenarios to decide which constraint deserves product investment.
138
Design & Delivery
11 min read
Developer Experience: Run the Internal Product Portfolio
Diagnose feedback delay, cognitive load, and flow; design paved roads; and govern adoption, migration, exceptions, incentives, and deprecation.
137
AI & Technical Product
9 min read
LLM Evals for Product Teams: Define Failure Before You Ship
Build a task-specific evaluation set, choose credible graders, define release thresholds, and turn production failures into regression tests.
136
Product Strategy
10 min read
A Product Manager’s Evidence Portfolio: Record Judgement Before Memory Edits It
Build a private evidence system for product decisions, shared attribution, non-launches, outcomes, and safe cases for interviews, promotion, and self-review.
135
Design & Delivery
9 min read
CI/CD for Product Leaders: Price the Path to Evidence
Trace a change from commit to user evidence, diagnose the five DORA metrics, and design batch size, gates, recovery, and progressive delivery.
134
Product Strategy
9 min read
Build vs Buy Is the Wrong Question for Digital Product Capabilities
Choose among build, buy, configure, reuse or defer by testing strategic fit, ownership burden, lock-in and the credibility of your exit.
133
Measurement & Growth
9 min read
Guardrail Metrics: Definition and Examples
Learn what guardrail metrics measure, with onboarding examples and a decision table for thresholds, monitoring horizons, owners, and stop conditions.
132
Leadership & Organisation
11 min read
PM Career Paths: Choose the Work Before the Ladder
Compare senior IC, people-leadership, and specialist product routes through real work, evidence, organisational context, switching costs, and role boundaries.
131
Design & Delivery
10 min read
Agile Maturity: Diagnose the Next Constraint
Assess flow, learning, technical confidence, decision rights, and improvement evidence without scoring ceremony compliance or comparing teams.
130
Measurement & Growth
9 min read
When Product Research and Analytics Disagree
Diagnose conflicts between research and behavioural analytics by checking population, exposure, units, time and constructs before choosing a follow-up.
129
Leadership & Organisation
9 min read
Product Decision Records: Keep the Reasoning, Not More Meeting Notes
Preserve the context, alternatives, evidence, assumptions and review triggers behind consequential product decisions without documenting every minor choice.
128
Product Strategy
10 min read
Roadmap Delivery Forecasts: Turn History into Honest Commitments
Forecast roadmap delivery with reference classes, probability ranges, scope and dependency sensitivity, ageing signals, and explicit commitment rules.
127
Leadership & Organisation
9 min read
Startup KPIs: Change the Set When the Constraint Moves
Choose a small early-stage KPI set, define every measure precisely, connect product evidence to runway, and replace metrics when the constraint changes.
126
Discovery & Validation
8 min read
B2B Product Discovery When Buyers and Users Disagree
Plan B2B discovery across users, buyers, administrators, security, procurement, and economic owners without treating one voice as the customer.
125
Product Strategy
9 min read
Market Entry: Choose a Wedge That Can Earn Expansion
Select a reachable beachhead, price the full switching burden, build a proof ladder, and define evidence for narrowing, stopping, or expanding.
124
Leadership & Organisation
10 min read
Influence Without Authority: Move the Decision, Not the Room
Map power and incentives, pre-wire objections, build a coalition, choose an escalation path, and recognise when influence has failed.
123
Leadership & Organisation
11 min read
Leadership Readiness: Test the Role Before Taking the Title
Test readiness for a leadership transition through direction, delegated authority, people obligations, judgement, and reduced dependence on personal output.
122
Measurement & Growth
12 min read
Product KPI Dashboards: Build a Decision Surface, Not a Scoreboard
Design a product KPI dashboard around a named audience, decision cadence, trust state, counter-signals, investigation routes, and recorded action.