Marty Cagan argues that a layoff, though painful, can be turned into a valuable period for building product management skills and becoming a more desirable candidate. He briefly advises keeping professional social…
“I’ve been diving deep into how generative AI can help us build new skills. I’m firmly in the “AI should augment (not replace) humans at work” camp. I’m concerned about the short-term impact on entry-level employees. I’m concerned about brain rot in the rest”
Teresa Torres argues that the most important product decision is what to build next, and that common scoring spreadsheets built on customer demand, build time, and stakeholder needs lead to mediocre products. She…
Teresa Torres profiles how Botify, a B2B SaaS company, gradually moved from siloed roles to product trios (PM, designer, tech lead) starting in 2019. The shift was driven by its Chief Product Officer and several team…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that innovation is a means rather than a goal: it matters only when it serves customers better. Using the history of the login flow, from passwords to single sign-on, Slack's magic…
Teresa Torres argues that product builders consistently overestimate how right they are, drawing on behavioral research and the Heath brothers' book Decisive, which describes four decision-making traps: narrow framing…
Teresa Torres argues that great products depend on a clear vision, which she treats as one of three pillars alongside sound decision making and building the right team. Product teams often assume alignment that doesn't…
Marty Cagan reflects on two years of generative AI's impact on product management, distinguishing between adding AI to products and using AI to change how products are built. He admits his earlier predictions were too…
In this All Things Product episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the emotional reality of setbacks in product work, drawing on Teresa's personal experience of a long injury recovery. They argue that failed…
Teresa Torres reflects on her first year of blogging at Product Talk, which she started in November 2011. She found that writing sharpened her own thinking, often surprising her with conclusions she hadn't expected, and…
This podcast episode features Elliot Little and Dan St. Paul of Zero Gravity, a UK platform helping state-school students reach elite careers through mentoring and learning pathways. They describe building an AI career…
Teresa Torres argues that the belief that product teams must be co-located is outdated, since many successful companies already run fully remote and global teams, and modern digital tools now provide most of the…
Teresa Torres argues that teams struggle when they mix up the phases of idea work: generating options and choosing among them need different rhythms and different conversational modes. Drawing on Tim Brown's…
Marty Cagan argues that empowered product teams need hard problems to solve, and product strategy is the discipline of deciding which problems matter. He observes that many companies have plenty of features and projects…
Marty Cagan extends his earlier point that product teams must learn fast in discovery while still delivering with confidence, arguing that the balance depends heavily on company culture. He lists the traits of a strong…
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the crowded product coaching landscape and help listeners understand the different coaching settings (individual, group, team) and coaching types (general product, discovery…
In this podcast episode, host Teresa Torres and guest Petra Wille examine whether every product outcome must be measurable. Torres revisits her long-held view that outcomes should always be metrics and explains why she…
Cagan argues the traditional product spec is broken: it takes too long to write, is rarely read, leaves hard questions unresolved, and gives false comfort that the product is on track. He proposes replacing it with a…
Cagan argues that many companies blur business strategy and product strategy, which leaves executives buried in feature-level decisions and product managers without the context or empowerment they need. Business…
Teresa Torres introduces a multi-week series arguing that API teams need more product discovery, and aims to bridge API engineers and discovery practitioners. This installment explains the basics: what an API is, how…
Teresa Torres argues that many teams run A/B tests without first knowing what they are trying to learn, which produces wasted effort and unclear results. Before testing, a team should define a specific hypothesis and…
This episode of Just Now Possible features Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for regulated industries. The team describes how months of work on the wrong ideas, such as reflection tools…
Teresa Torres and members of the Continuous Discovery Habits community share the personal knowledge management (PKM) tools and habits they use to capture, organize, and reuse what they learn about products, customers…
If I started a B2B company tomorrow, I’d do the product marketing myself for a while. I’d start by listening to how buyers describe us. What do they think we’re similar to? Why wouldn’t they switch? What keeps showing up in lost deals? Those answers would change how I explain