Quick Wins and Autonomous Backlog Coding
“This is a quick win! The customer says it’s trivial. Just adding a dropdown or a new data value…
Podcast: “If we build the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how fast we build it“
Madalena Costa invited me onto her Human x Intelligent for a rapid-fire discussion about products, AI, skills, and what might still be true in 2030.…
Insights Unlocked podcast
Mike Mace generously had me (re)join his Insights Unlocked podcast. We talked at length about product waste, how AI is moving technical organizations from titles to skills focus, and why 10x faster code creation doesn’t lead to 10x more revenue. Highlights:…
Falling Token Prices
Ara Kharazian put out an important piece last week as part of his ongoing Ramp Economics work.…
Technical Ingredients, Revenue Ingredients
I had two more discussions this week with folks confusing "code" with "product." One was a…
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Product Opscast: Money Stories and Organizational Realities
I joined Graham Reed and Antonia Landi on their Product Opscast, originally to talk about Money Stories. I got rather…
Barbell-Shaped Product Roles
I had yet another call last week with an AI engineer/cofounder who has built some very interesting software but…
“Three Money Stories You Need to Tell"
Here’s a short video of my PRODUCTIZED talk from 19 June in Lisbon...…
10x Coding Speed Won't 10x Revenue
I've had two recent conversations with CEOs who are confusing potential code acceleration with revenue acceleration. Here'…
Gratitude
Two great conferences [Productized and Product at Heart] these last two weeks… filled with thoughtful talks and shared experiences and…
The Inevitable Failure of One-Shot Project Funding
Organizations that fund the building of software as one-time projects ("once we ship v1.0 of Product X,…
Code Isn’t Product
A year ago I wrote about how AI would shift the bottlenecks in product development from the middle of the…
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