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The AI Fueled Product Manager – The Best Version of You

Product Management University

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Here’s the honest truth.

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The ROI of AI-assisted product development: What every business leader needs to know

Modus Create

But what is the real return on investment (ROI) for businesses that adopt AI tools in product development? In this blog, I break down the key value drivers, share practical examples, and explain the leadership mindset needed to capture AI’s potential for your product teams.

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Special: The 7 Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery in 2025 – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

He has 30+ years of professional experience in product and leadership roles across large and small organizations and dynamic startups, and now devotes his time to teaching and helping others improve. He co-authored Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guide Book for Product Innovation Training and Certification.

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What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025

Lenny Rachitsky

As you just read, Figma is where design work happens, so FigJam has an advantage that could force Miro out of its leadership spot in future years. Perhaps having observed Figma’s approach, Atlassian and Microsoft developed virtual whiteboard products, which, funny enough, are both called “Whiteboard.”

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes.

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Reaching Consensus on How

Tyner Blain

If every idea has high ROI, and we’re capacity constrained, what will leadership do? As my friend Rich Mironov famously says “there’s never a shortage of good ideas” ( one of several links ). Increase capacity. Like scaling up the GPUs in a server farm, bigger is better.

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The Great Methodology Myth: Why We’ve Been Fighting the Wrong War

Sequent Learning

We need to talk about the biggest lie in software development. The Strawman We Love to Hate Most developers who trash “Waterfall” are attacking a caricature that never existed. For decades, we’ve been sold a story: “Waterfall bad, Agile good.” ” It’s become gospel in our industry.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?