HeyJaredContinuous Learning with Jeff Gothelf
A practical bi-monthly, free newsletter for product managers about staying successful and relevant in the age of AI from product expert and author Jeff Gothelf.
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Renegotiating done is the closest thing to authority most product managers have (opens the original)
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At a glanceAI is making teams faster, but not making impact easier to proveMost PMs cannot change the operating model they work inThey can renegotiate what “done” means before work beginsA baseline and a behavior change turn delivery into evidenceHey folks,Marty Cagan published a piece on July 23 called “The AI Productivity Paradox.” There was a very familiar line there. “The real problem with the project model was never that it was too
Tools for product managers building with AI (opens the original)
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At a glanceA practical library of Sense & Respond Learning tools, templates and guides for AI product workUse these to understand customers, set direction, prioritize bets and measure what changedSave this before your next discovery, planning or roadmap sessionHey folks,If you’re a product manager right now, you’re juggling a lot. AI has added another layer to an already compli
Your VP showed up with a roadmap Claude wrote. Now what? (opens the original)
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At a glanceAI-written roadmaps can look more rigorous than they arePushing back carries political risk, especially when the author is your VPAsk about customer evidence, editorial judgment and assumptionsKeep the discussion about the strategy, not the AI toolUse the answers to build a learning loop around the roadmap’s biggest risksHey folks,I imagine this is a scene that’s starting to play out in more and more team meetings.
What’s worth telling a story about? (opens the original)
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At a GlanceThe last matrix sorted your roadmap. This adds one more filter: narrative fitShip everything and you just overwhelm your customersWrite your product’s story for the year first, then make every release earn a place in itSomeone has to own the narrative thread. That’s the PM’s jobHey folks,After the l
How to prioritize an AI roadmap when effort estimates stop meaning anything (opens the original)
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At a GlanceQuick poll: organizational training prioritiesWhen an engineer can build a feature in an afternoon, effort stops being a useful way to prioritizeA backlog where everything is cheap isn’t prioritized, it’s just a to-do listTwo questions now sort your roadmap better than effort: learning value and reversibilityThe 2×2 matrix tells you what to build now, what to prototype, what to ship & forget and what to avoidJudgment is the only expensive thin
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