Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Audience member: You mentioned that we have to overcommunicate strategic context or the product strategy—can you give examples of not-so-obvious situations where we should be pushing it? People ask me, can I just ask ChatGPT who my customer is? I’m not dissing ChatGPT. AI is interesting. No, don’t do that!

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AI can help with: Rapid generation of initial draft product briefs Assistance in structuring briefs with key components Increased output and iterations Brian notes that while AI can significantly speed up the process of creating product briefs, these documents often require nuanced understanding and strategic thinking.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. 🤖🤖🤖🤖 Developing a product strategy and vision: Significantly impacted The job: Analyzing your market, data, customers’ needs, and insights about the future to craft a winning product strategy and vision.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2023

When it comes to prioritizing, your role as a product leader is not just to distinguish between important and unimportant tasks. That’s something anyone can do, even Chat GPT ? . By sharing your insights and concerns with the CEO, you demonstrate your commitment to their success and reinforce your role as a trusted advisor.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 17, 2024

In our conversation, we discuss: Challenges and lessons from reviving growth at YouTube and Thumbtack Lessons from building Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team Insights into Grammarly’s success Knowing when it’s time to kill your project Why diversifying your growth channels is critical The power of visioning and storytelling (..)

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

Scenario 2: A and B products with the same amount of impact on existing and new markets and have similar confidence levels. However, product A has a higher competitive threat. For example: chatGPT threat on Google’s search engine. Scenario 2 for input inflow engine In this scenario, both products are a “go.”

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. There are the obvious things product management does. A simple ChatGPT inquiry will give you everything you need. I want to focus on the responsibilities of B2B product management that don’t get much airtime.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Definition and Core Components Outsourced software product development refers to the practice of delegating all or part of the software development lifecycle to an external partner. This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Some context: The typical product manager ( PdM ) gets dozens of new requests and demands and ideas and suggestions and escalations and bug reports and customer complaints and ChatGPT-generated word salads each day.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports. 

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As you’ve heard about ChatGPT, it can already assist you in creating an actual product strategy if you provide the right data—going as far as creating predictive models, simulating customer interactions, or brainstorming ideas for product development.

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UX Planet

MARCH 17, 2024

In a couple of years, people will get used to video generation just like they got used to ChatGPTs. It allows you to optimize production strategies. E-commerce platforms : generate product videos that showcase merchandise and highlight key features. What’s text-to-video AI Let’s start with a short definition.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I want to hone my product skills Fundamentals Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task 🎖️ How to develop product sense How to get better at product strategy (plus this and this podcast episode) How to get better at influence How to get better at communication: The Minto Pyramid Principle and (..)

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Modus Create

MAY 20, 2025

For example, here is the result of a ChatGPT conversation where I kept asking it to make it more with the prompt being the true essence of Confluence. Currently, Boris is focused on building and leading product strategy at Modus Create, driving growth and innovation within its internal product team.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

Marty Cagan in the 2008 SVGP blog said - ‘during the major economic downturn in the late 1990s, various tech companies were impacted, some shut shop whereas some developed their product strategy to take advantage of the eventual recovery.’ ’ Let’s see what these products did, and seek some inspiration as we say.🫡

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Using Problem Statements to Make Choices I talk about using problem statements to “shape” a product strategy. Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable. I want to take a step back and explain. I still have no idea.

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The Product Cafe

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s more time for the fun part—like nailing down that elusive product-market fit or crafting strategies that outmaneuver competitors. Developing a visionary product strategy, empathizing with user challenges, and leading dynamic cross-functional teams are areas where product managers shine.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In this chartpack: Product strategy and mobile apps: 3 ways product teams build apps Top apps and categories Industry benchmarks on retention, engagement, monetization High growth opportunities: what are the fastest growing app categories?

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Whereas in smaller teams, product managers don’t have much help. They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 8, 2025

” Jerry’s foundational equation for leadership success: practical skills + radical self-inquiry + shared experiences = enhanced leadership and resilience Why teams most often fail (hint: it’s not lack of talent or strategy) How busyness often masks deeper issues of self-worth Why a “growth mindset” can be problematic The (..)

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

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.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 9, 2023

Oh no, not another blog about ChatGPT. Awkward confessions of love aside, there is no doubt that ChatGPT and other AI tools like it are poised to impact every aspect of our lives. And product management is not immune to this new era of artificial intelligence. The premise: How can we use ChatGPT in the Productplan platform?

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Product vision and strategy: The vision describes the desired future state, and the strategy provides what the product hopes to accomplish and how it plans to move towards the vision. [I I wrote about product strategy in a prior newsletter.] There are two sides.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example: a statement such as “Our company makes a cheap product with few features and great support” Pair with opposites and identify choices that companies make Act like a lawyer: make a great case for the opposition Extract choices: refine these choices into intelligent decisions that could have been made Identify attributes — there are no strengths (..)

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UX Planet

MAY 29, 2025

That behaviour shift is exactly what ChatGPT Search betson: Become the default place professionals and builders come to ask, understand, and act on live informationdelivering cited answers, deep research, and creation tools in one ad-free workspace. Where is ChatGPT Searchplaying? instant Top link card + faster serving). Speed is key.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I want to learn to build better products How the best companies operate: Linear , Perplexity , Stripe , Figma , Ramp , Shopify , Notion , Wiz , Duolingo , Coda , Deel , Palantir , Gong , Meta Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task How to get better at product strategy (also check out this , this , and this (..)

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BrainMates

JUNE 4, 2025

Beyond the Hype: AI for Strategic Foresight By Erica Wass Product professionals are now being held to a higher standard as they are increasingly expected to deliver commercial outcomes and drive strategic value. It also helps to evaluate the timeliness of the data basing Foresight on old data isnt as valuable as current knowledge.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 5, 2025

Claude Opus 4 has crossed a critical threshold where it has become a genuine thought partner for strategy. Mike now uses Claude as his go-to product strategy partner, and for the first time, it provides novel angles he hadn’t considered.

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