Hacker News with Generative AI: Product Management

Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job (jessitron.com)
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say “Ship the Roadmap.” What new information are they communicating in that case? And if the OKRs say anything else, they’re in conflict the roadmap!

Software Development, OKRs, Product Management

369 points by zdw 12 days ago | 236 comments

AI for Product Managers (productme.org)
Let’s clear up a common misunderstanding: there isn’t really such a thing as an “AI Product Manager.” While the term is trendy and has sparked a lot of discussion online, it’s misleading. Product Managers (PMs) focus on the overall success of a product, while AI or Machine Learning (ML) Engineers handle building and improving AI models.

Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

22 points by productme 29 days ago | 10 comments

AI Product Management (deeplearning.ai)
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.

AI, Product Management, Amazon, Generative AI

84 points by zerop 36 days ago | 42 comments

Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it (posthog.com)
When Tim and I first started PostHog in 2020, I was adamant we would never hire a product manager. I wanted engineers to wrestle with hard product problems. Product managers, I believed, would just get in the way.

Software Engineering, Product Management, Startups

5 points by hollowdene 44 days ago | 1 comments

Using Survival Analysis to estimate product lifetime (jumpdata.co.uk)
We needed to estimate the average number of years after purchase various consumer products broke down from a large dataset containing:

Data Science, Statistics, Product Management, Survival Analysis

18 points by sebg 82 days ago | 3 comments

How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal (wordpress.com)
I had a plumber over the other day. I was worried that my water service line might be leaking. There was a wet patch in the yard and I noticed that one of my sink’s water pressure seemed to be lower than usual. If the line had a pinhole leak in it, it could easily burst into a multi-thousand dollar flood on my hands. The joys of home ownership.

Software Development, Product Management, Engineering

169 points by andyg_blog 100 days ago | 145 comments

Prioritize Through Purpose (belowwaterlevel.com)
Prioritization conflicts are exactly the situations when Product Managers must step away from traditionally accepted management tools and frameworks and look deeper into Purpose.

Product Management, Prioritization, Purpose

43 points by shehjar 103 days ago | 21 comments

Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In Scrum, Product Owners have sole authority over the Product Backlog; they control what to build and when to build it. Engineers are merely ticket-takers, implementing one instruction after another.

Scrum, Software Development, Agile, Product Management, Software Engineering

14 points by aard 106 days ago | 15 comments

How the Product Bubble Burst (coldwaters.substack.com)
For nearly two decades, investors looking for somewhere to park trillions of freshly printed dollars funded the Product Management bubble. Now it’s bursting.

Product Management, Venture Capital, Economics

20 points by drc500free 110 days ago | 0 comments

Fighting back against proper noun feature names (2021) (kubie.co)
Every time you name a product feature that doesn’t require a name (e.g. “My Account” instead of just “account”) you’re adding cognitive load for users, increasing difficulty for your support staff and technical writers, and adding unnecessary weight to the product that makes it harder to be nimble in the future.

User Experience, Software Development, Product Management

35 points by zzxcvb 115 days ago | 23 comments

Product/Market Fit (PMF): Experience and Data (asmartbear.com)
Every day people debate how to define “Product/Market Fit.”

Product Management, Startups, Business

15 points by gmays 118 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out?

Airbnb, Product Management, Design, User Experience

17 points by trojanalert 122 days ago | 3 comments

Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess (tidyfirst.substack.com)
My blood is boiling. I’ve been researching the CTO role, trying to understand the technical executive responsibilities & the various ways they can bundle together. I was listening to the CTO Insights podcast, when I heard this.

Product Management, Leadership, Technology, Podcasts, Careers

57 points by KentBeck 124 days ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM? (ycombinator.com)
I’m a PM & designer in his late 30s who is itching to get into deep tech (BCI, AI, aerospace, medtech, etc). I have no background in engineering and am considering pursuing a masters either in CS or similar.

Education, Career Advice, Technology, Product Management

70 points by deeptechdreamer 127 days ago | 90 comments

Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products? (ycombinator.com)
I would like to know if Open Source Projects can or should be considered Products.

Open Source, Software Development, Product Management

5 points by richardjennings 128 days ago | 11 comments

Engineer's guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt (eng-leadership.com)
But convincing a product manager (PM) to prioritize it over shiny new features? That’s a whole different challenge.

Software Development, Product Management, Technical Debt

45 points by samsepi01 132 days ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How Can I Quickly Launch My Web Product and Attract Target Users? (ycombinator.com)

Startups, Web Development, Marketing, Product Management

15 points by PeterHuber 133 days ago | 26 comments

Superhuman built an engine to find product market fit (2018) (firstround.com)