Product & AI Blog
Notes on building AI products, making trade-offs, and deciding what comes next.
60 articles
Product Manager Portfolio: Show Your Decisions, Not Just Your Job Titles
Build a product manager portfolio around problems, trade-offs and evidence. Includes a case-study outline and a playable portfolio example.
4 min read · Career & Teams
RICE Prioritization: A Worked Example and the Trade-offs Behind It
Learn RICE prioritization with a worked example, confidence sensitivity and capacity trade-offs, then practise backlog decisions in Sprint Rush.
4 min read · Prioritization
Bugs vs Features: How to Decide What Gets Built Next
Decide when a bug should interrupt feature work. Use an impact checklist, practical examples and a clear stakeholder update template.
4 min read · Prioritization
Stakeholder Management for Product Managers: When Everyone Wants Something Different
Handle competing product requests with a decision table, clear ownership and a practical way to explain what gets deferred.
4 min read · Career & Teams
Product Discovery Before an MVP: What to Test Before You Build
Decide what to test before an MVP with a learning-product example, an assumption table and a clear link between research and build decisions.
4 min read · Discovery & Research
AI Product Evaluation Checklist: What I Would Check Before Launch
Review an AI feature with task-specific tests, clear release blockers, human-calibrated grading and practical recovery checks.
4 min read · AI & LLMs
RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Start With the Answer That Went Wrong
Diagnose missing knowledge and inconsistent behaviour before choosing RAG or fine-tuning. Includes an OTT assistant decision table.
4 min read · AI & LLMs
Voice AI Latency: Why a Fast Answer Can Still Feel Like a Bad Conversation
Evaluate voice AI beyond model speed with response-start delay, interruptions, corrections and recovery in a learning-coach example.
4 min read · AI & LLMs
AI Feature Adoption Metrics: The First Click Is Not the Result
Measure AI adoption with clear denominators, a worked funnel and task-success checks, rather than treating generated responses as value.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Metrics & Analytics
Outcome-Based Product Roadmap: An Example That Still Helps a Team Plan
Connect outcomes to practical delivery with a now-next-later roadmap, evidence gates, real commitments and a learning-product example.
3 min read · Strategy & Roadmaps
Running a Remote Product Team: Async Communication That Actually Works
How to run product work in a remote team: written decisions, async updates, fewer but better meetings, time zones and keeping context from getting lost.
4 min read · Career & Teams
A Product Manager's First 90 Days in a New Job
A practical 30-60-90 day plan for a new product manager: learning the product and people, finding early wins, earning trust and making the first real decisions.
4 min read · Career & Teams