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Notes on building AI products, making trade-offs, and deciding what comes next.
14 articles in Execution & Delivery
Product Launch Checklist: Everything Outside the Code
A go-to-market launch checklist for product managers: positioning, sales and support readiness, pricing, documentation, internal comms and the post-launch review.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
From AI Pilot to Production: Why Enterprise AI Pilots Stall
Why enterprise AI pilots get stuck and how to plan one that can scale: agreed success criteria, real users, integration, ownership and a decision date.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Execution & Delivery
When a Partner API Goes Down: Designing for Third-Party Failure
Product decisions for when a supplier or partner API fails: timeouts, fallbacks, stale data, partial results, user messaging and reviewing incidents with the partner.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
Feature Flag Rollout Strategy: Shipping to Some Users Before All of Them
How product teams use feature flags for staged rollouts: choosing the first audience, rollout stages, what to watch, kill switches and cleaning up old flags.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
How Product Managers Should Prioritize Technical Debt
A product manager's approach to technical debt: understanding what it costs the team, making it visible on the roadmap and deciding how much capacity to reserve.
4 min read · Prioritization, Execution & Delivery
Release Go/No-Go Checklist: What I Check Before Shipping
A release readiness checklist for product teams covering open bugs, rollback, monitoring, support readiness and who makes the final go/no-go call.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
Prompt Versioning: Treating Prompt Changes Like Product Releases
Why prompt edits need versioning, testing and rollback like code: who can change prompts, how to test them against an evaluation set and how to roll out safely.
4 min read · AI & LLMs, Execution & Delivery
Releasing Across Web, iOS, Android and Smart TV Without Losing Track
How to manage releases across web, iOS, Android and Smart TV: different review cycles, feature parity decisions, server-side flags and version support.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
Payment Gateway Integration: The Product Decisions Behind a Working Checkout
Product decisions in a payment gateway integration: choosing methods per market, handling failures and retries, duplicate charges, refunds and reconciliation.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
Sprint Planning for Product Managers: What to Bring and What to Let Go
What a product manager should prepare before sprint planning, how to set a sprint goal, handle capacity honestly and avoid overcommitting the team.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery, Career & Teams
Smart TV App Product Management: What Changes on the Biggest Screen
Product decisions for Smart TV apps: remote navigation, fragmented platforms, slow release cycles, older hardware and testing on real devices.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery
User Stories and Acceptance Criteria: Examples That Leave Less to Guesswork
How to write user stories and acceptance criteria that engineers and QA can test, with examples, a Given/When/Then format and common mistakes.
4 min read · Execution & Delivery