Execution, roadmaps & process

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)

Factors in Structuring a Product Organization

Marty Cagan argues that splitting product work across teams is one of the hardest and most recurring organizational questions once a company outgrows its earliest stage, and that there is no quick general answer. He…

Product vs. Project Teams

Marty Cagan revisits the distinction between product teams and project teams, which he says he should have written about sooner, after hoping the problem had faded. A product team is durable and owns an outcome over one…

Portfolio Grooming

Marty Cagan argues that every technology company has more product ideas than capacity to build them, so the real work of portfolio planning is deciding where to invest. Rather than only adding headcount, companies can…

Skateboards vs. Cars Revisited

Marty Cagan revisits Henrik Kniberg's skateboard-versus-car MVP article and argues it describes what engineering-only teams can do, not what true cross-functional product teams should do. He contends that a skilled…

What a Good Continuous Discovery Team Looks Like [Case Study]

Teresa Torres profiles Amy O'Callaghan (product manager) and Jenn Atkins (product designer) at Snagajob, who were coached in continuous discovery and now run a team that talks to customers weekly and validates work…

The Rise of Modern Product Discovery

Torres argues that product delivery has matured through Agile, continuous integration, and story mapping, while product discovery, the work of deciding what to build, has lagged behind. She contrasts the traditional…

Transformation Defined

Cagan and Moore argue that 'transformation' is often described with labels like Agile or product-led, which fail to capture what actually changes. They propose defining transformation by three concrete shifts: how a…

Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky introduces Core 4, a unified developer productivity framework built with DX and the authors of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx. The post explains how to baseline team velocity with an anonymous survey, calculate…

Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian

Product in Practice: Tackling Big Hairy Product Challenges with Continuous Discovery

This Product in Practice feature profiles Lisa Orr, a former data scientist turned product manager at Airship, who leads discovery for the orchestration product area with coaching from Teresa Torres. It shows how a…

How to debug a team that isn’t working: the Waterline Model

Molly Graham introduces the Waterline Model, a diagnostic for underperforming teams that checks four levels in order: structure, dynamics, interpersonal, and individual. Her core argument is that many team problems are…

Frameworks: When to Use Them, When to Break Them - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille

This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, examines how product management frameworks should be used. Frameworks like the Business Model Canvas, Opportunity Solution Trees, and Jobs to Be Done…

Discovery vs. Delivery

Cagan argues that product teams face two simultaneous goals: learning fast through discovery about what customers need, and delivering robust, scalable, production-quality software they can release with confidence…

Ask the Community: What Do You Do When You Inherit a Giant Product Backlog?

Teresa Torres and the Continuous Discovery Habits community explore what a product manager should do after inheriting a large, aging product backlog of feature requests and bugs. The discussion rejects both extremes of…

Autonomy vs. Leverage

Marty Cagan argues that while empowered, cross-functional product teams have become the norm and boost motivation and ownership, teams often feel constrained by shared foundations. He frames the core tension as a…

My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons

Lenny Rachitsky reflects on nearly two years of running his product management podcast, which has passed 10 million downloads. He argues that the core job is producing a great audio file, and that starting with modest…

Product Discovery

Cagan argues that product teams commonly treat requirements and design as a scheduled, sequential phase, which leads to engineers building unvalidated solutions that customers don't want. He reframes this stage as…

How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery?

Teresa Torres argues that asking how much time to spend in discovery is the wrong question, because discovery and delivery should happen continuously rather than in sequence. The right amount of discovery is whatever is…

Product in Practice: How Botify Broke Down Silos and Moved to Product Trios

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…

Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more

The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale

No Silver Bullet

Marty Cagan revisits Fred Brooks's classic essay "No Silver Bullet" and argues that the software world is full of advocates who present a single favorite technique as the answer to everything. He acknowledges that he…