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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

The discussion explores practical applications of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude in product development, including MVP refinement, customer testing, and marketing content creation. However, Mike emphasizes the importance of balancing AI capabilities with human oversight, warning against over-reliance on AI.

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In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. And you can always feel product/market fit when it’s happening.

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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. Don’t hesitate to show your strategy documents to your most trusted customers for early feedback. About Julian Dunn.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. In fact, our tests regularly failed. We were testing our code. I felt I had to wait until a feature built out before I could give my feedback. Did it matter?

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Talking to Users During Product Development: The Challenges and Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Let’s explore the reasons teams engage customers and the challenges they are likely to face in doing so In the past, I have written a post on how to start engaging customers without going into reasons why that may be helpful. Also, in this post, I do not speak about specific techniques to increase value from customer engagement.

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More Than Great Products: A Journey to Product/Market Fit

Mind the Product

For years I’ve helped my clients create new digital products and services for their customers. We threw terms like product/market fit around, without ever really giving a thought to what they meant. The first time round, I started with an idea, developed a solution and then tried to find customers. Well, not quite….