Best Of Product Roundup - July 13, 2024
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This week’s highlights feature:
Top 3 Long-Form Articles (with a bonus reference this week!)
Top 4 Tweets
Top 3 LinkedIn Posts and Short Videos
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This week we included more content than usual around the parts of the product job where AI is changing the game. Pay close attention to become an AI-powered PM, which before long will just be considered “a smart PM.”
Top Long-Form Content
How close is AI to replacing Product Managers?
What we liked: The authors take the hardest product tasks and try to prompt LLMs to produce superior answers, and they succeed in 2 of 3 tests. Lots to learn around how to prompt better as a PM.
Choice quote: “As a result, most people underestimate how close ChatGPT and other tools are to replacing the work of a human. Whenever you see the headline of an article or scientific paper that says “ChatGPT can’t do x,” it’s usually because they didn’t use the latest model and didn’t make use of prompt engineering.”
Twelve Product Principles by David Pereira, Author of Untrapping Product Teams
What we liked: It’s an actionable list of strong principles you can use immediately to focus and create value. It’s also endorsed by very strong product thinkers.
Choice quote: “You may wonder which tools would equip you to stand out as a PM. The most valuable tool you can ever have is between your ears—your brain.”
This is the only Strategy Framework you need. Period.
What we liked: Fresh perspective on aligning strategy creation with risk taking roles. Don’t love the “10 questions” that will help you write your strategy, but the context in the explanations of those questions is useful.
Choice quote: “So, when it comes to down who should write down the strategy in the company - I often ask - Who is going to go into the battle?”
Bonus: What is a Research Repository
What we liked: We’ve never seen a piece that nerds out on how to organize all the research a strong product organization creates. Good content, dry delivery, but worth a skim!
Choice quote: “Some repositories act as glorified document libraries, where research reports and study materials are filed away in a specific folder structure. These are common when repositories are housed within collaboration platforms like Sharepoint or Confluence. Other research repositories are searchable indexes or databases of research findings. These are common when teams pursue atomic research — where knowledge is broken down into “nuggets” or key insights.
Top Tweets
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