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Working ideas from teams shipping real product. Long enough to be useful, short enough to read in a coffee break.

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Product Management · 8 min · Apr 2026

Product Discovery Without the Theater

How to tell continuous discovery from performative discovery — and why the difference shows up in your roadmap six months later.

Agile

The Retro Format That Finally Changes Something

Most retros generate action items that die in Notion. A simple structural change moves them from list to system.

Mar 2026 · 6 minRead →
AI

The AI-Augmented Product Manager

A working pattern for using LLMs across discovery, prioritization, and stakeholder communication — without losing your judgment.

Mar 2026 · 11 minRead →
Decision Making

Why Every Senior PM Should Keep a Decision Journal

Outcomes are noisy. Reasoning is the only signal you can grade yourself on — and it compounds faster than experience.

Feb 2026 · 5 minRead →
Innovation

How to Set an Innovation Budget Your CFO Will Approve

Innovation gets killed in spreadsheets. Frame it as a portfolio of small bets with explicit stop-loss rules.

Feb 2026 · 9 minRead →
Agile

The Scrum Master as Systems Coach

Ceremony enforcement is the floor of the role. Systems coaching is the ceiling — and it's where senior practitioners actually live.

Jan 2026 · 7 minRead →
Product Management

Opportunity Solution Trees in Practice

Three field-tested patterns for using OSTs without turning them into static documents nobody updates.

Jan 2026 · 10 minRead →
Innovation

Facilitating Productive Disagreement

Conflict is a sign your team is engaged. Here are five facilitation moves to keep it productive instead of personal.

Dec 2025 · 6 minRead →
AI

12 Prompts for Better Product Strategy with AI

A working library of LLM prompts that produce sharper strategic thinking — and the meta-pattern behind why they work.

Dec 2025 · 8 minRead →