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Inference Economics: The Hidden Constraint Shaping AI Product Strategy
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Many teams rushing to build AI products focus on the visible layers: models, prompts, and user interfaces.
But in practice, the hardest product decisions often emerge elsewhere — around cost unpredictability, model reliability, latency, governance, and how these constraints shape what products can realistically deliver.
For product managers, this creates a new challenge:
AI capability is no longer the main constraint, operational reality is.This session explores how these invisible constraints influence product strategy and roadmap decisions when building AI-powered products.
Topics we’ll explore together:
- Why many AI…21 votes -
A Game of Thrones: Hacking Politics at Large Orgs - From Ex-Adobe Product Head and Stanford MBA
TL;DR: A brutally honest and counter-intuitive guide for turning visibility, timing, and narrative into promotions, buy-in, and real impact.
I didn't want to name-drop, but all the highest voted ideas last year all named-dropped - so please forgive me. :)
Before I started at Adobe, I had never worked for a company I didn't start myself, and my friends found the idea of me joining a behemoth enterprise company so ridiculous that they created a pool for how long I'd last before I'd quit - with the most optimistic of the bunch betting 6 months.
4 years, 5 bosses, 5…
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The 5 Real Skills of Product Managers That Nobody Teaches (in the Age of AI)
Product management is often taught through frameworks, roadmaps, and prioritization techniques - but the skills that truly drive impact are rarely discussed. In the age of generative AI and emerging agentic systems, these skills are becoming even more critical. As AI accelerates execution (writing specs, analyzing data, and even generating product ideas), the role of the PM is shifting toward judgment, alignment, and decision-making. This session explores five essential capabilities that differentiate high-performing PMs: narrative thinking, influence without authority, decision-making under ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and product judgment, and how these evolve when AI becomes a core collaborator in your workflow.
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The PM Energy Problem: Why Great PMs Burn Out (and How AI Changes the Equation)
The Product Manager is one of the few roles with unlimited scope, constant context switching, and ambiguous success metrics - making burnout a common but rarely addressed challenge. With the rise of GenAI tools, PMs now face a paradox: while AI can automate documentation, analysis, and coordination, it also accelerates the pace of work and increases expectations. This session introduces the “PM Energy Problem” in an AI-driven environment: why even high-performing PMs struggle to sustain impact, and explores how decision fatigue, invisible work, and competing priorities evolve with AI. Attendees will learn practical strategies to manage energy, leverage AI effectively,…
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A hands-on AI Product Management Workshop: Crazy 8 Discovery Brainstorming,Draft a PRD, AI Prototyping, and Deploy with Stakeholder Feedback
PM Hive would love to host a hands-on workshop at this year's ProductCamp: "From Problem to Prototype with AI."
The premise is simple. Attendees walk in with a problem statement and walk out with a working prototype. In 60-90 minutes, participants will move through four stages using AI tools at every step:
- Crazy 8 Discovery Brainstorming to get 8 cool use cases
- Draft a PRD/Product Brief from a defined problem
- Build a prototype/design with AI tools
- Ship. Actually deploy and host something live
The key differentiator: We're focused on AI as a product decision-making partner - helping PMs learn the…
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How Quarterly Planning Drives Predictable Delivery
Come and experience a fun planning and delivery simulation that shows how Quarterly Planning drives predictable delivery.
Quarterly Planning is a cornerstone of many delivery teams creating a long-term plan showing what will get delivered and when it will be delivered. It provides an opportunity to uncover dependencies, look ahead at known work, and view delivery over a longer time horizon. Excellent reasons to invest time in planning over the longer timeframe.
Too often this plan is interpreted as a commitment. It is not. Instead it provides the baseline against which delivery can be tracked. We want to think of…
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Designing AI Products: A Practical Guide for PMs
AI-powered features are transforming modern products, but building them requires a different approach than traditional software. In this practical workshop, product managers will learn how to design AI-driven product experiences, define meaningful metrics, and translate data and models into real product value. Through real-world examples and hands-on exercises, participants will gain frameworks and tools to confidently manage AI/ML-powered products.
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Why Good Product Ideas Fail in Complex Systems: A Systems Thinking Crash Course for PMs
Many product frameworks assume a fairly linear path from idea to feature to outcome - but in complex environments, the system around the product often plays a significant role in whether an idea succeeds or fails.
This session introduces the basics of systems thinking and how PMs can use it to better understand what can realistically succeed in a given system. We’ll explore simple ways to map the system around a product idea, examine how stakeholders, incentives, and constraints shape outcomes, and uncover the hidden barriers, leverage points, and unintended consequences that influence product success.
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Standing Out in a Crowded Product Job Market
The product job market is more competitive than ever. With high demand for available roles - and AI making it easier to generate polished, semi-targeted applications at scale, standing out has become both more difficult and more important. Many candidates have similar experience on paper, making it harder for employers to differentiate through resumes alone. What truly differentiates candidates is their ability to clearly articulate their value and make memorable, authentic connections in conversations, networking moments, and interviews.
This interactive workshop focuses on practical, real-world strategies to help you stand out in a crowded field. We’ll explore how to clearly…
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How to make the transition from Product Manager to Product Builder
I would propose a panel discussion with three to four experienced product managers who have made the transition from working as a pure product manager or product executive and are now fully immersed in product building with AI teams.
I've been doing this for a few months now, and the learning curve is tremendous and I believe many people would benefit from this panel discussion. This is a unique time and this format would be a fantastic way to get engagement on different perspectives and questions.
If you are interested in being a panelist, please comment below and I'll reach…
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Power is Not a Dirty Word: Know It, Build It, Use It Well
Most people in tech don't think much about power. They focus on doing good work and hoping the organisation recognises it. That worked for a while. It's working less and less.
With the pace of change accelerating and technology drastically reshaping careers, power is consolidating fast - in organisations, in industries, in the hands of people who understand how it works. The PMs and operators who consistently shape outcomes aren't just more skilled. They've learned how to build and use power.
This session is a practical look at how power really works inside modern product and technology organisations.
We'll cover:
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How I use Claude skills to automate PMM & Sales Enablement tasks
A walkthrough of how I use Claude skills and Obsidian to establish a clear positioning & differentiation playbook, which is used as the foundation to generate call prep notes, competitive analysis, battlecard, and more.
This is a 15-min walkthrough followed by an open floor discussion for others to share their tips and tricks.
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Early Career PM: Expectations, Realities, and the Roll of a Dice
Product management is one of the most romanticized roles in tech and one of the most variable, especially when you're just starting out.
I'm a student who's interned across startups, public sector, and big tech in product, software development, and research roles. From a Series A startup to a government agency to Intuit – no two experiences looked the same.
The title "PM" can mean wildly different things depending on the company, the team, and honestly, a bit of luck. Especially with employers looking at our generation as the up and coming "AI Native" graduate glasses, there is more variability…
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Product Discovery in the Age of AI
AI can assist, augment and even automate much of a traditional PM's job. So what's left? Talking to customers, clients, prospects! Testing assumptions before they become deliverables.
Let's explore how AI augmented product discovery improve your speed to delivery AND ensure real customer needs are being met.
I will share some great tips on how to use AI as part of this process that you can use immediately.
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NOPE! When Collaboration Doesn't Work
Ever wonder why collaboration is supposed to be a core company value but stuff still doesn’t get done? Or why fire drills disrupt YOUR VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE for the third time this month? Or why an ideal customer doesn’t buy your stuff, even though they’re in pain?
You may have “alignment” in theory. You may have the right messaging when working with your colleagues. You may even have the right messaging for your customers.
But you may not have the right value at the right time.
In a follow on to last year’s “Make Your Messaging Suck Less” we will…
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When Anyone Can Build Anything, What Are You Worth?
Good PMs deeply understand their customers. Great PMs also know themselves.
Yet most PMs have significant blind spots about their own value: what sets them apart, what they can offer, and what they truly value. Few PMs ever turn their discovery discipline inward.
AI is raising the stakes on that gap: when what's valued shifts, the PMs who thrive will be the ones who know exactly where their greatest opportunities lie.
This introspective yet interactive session helps you close that gap. You'll leave with:
• A mindset shift that transforms how you percieve your own strengths and what you've dismissed…9 votes -
Feature Requests Are a Trap: A Better Approach to Product Discovery
In this session, we’ll explore why building what users ask for is holding your product back.
“We just need this one feature.”
We’ve all heard it from customers, sales, or leadership. But following feature requests too closely often leads to fragmented products and wasted effort.
In this session, I’ll share how shifting from feature-driven thinking to problem-led discovery can transform your roadmap. Through real examples and a simple framework, you’ll learn how to uncover what users actually need and design better solutions than they could request themselves.
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Product Discovery Doesn't Just Work on Software
At ProductCamp 2024, I announced my new business (idea) and spent the day talking to PMs about it 1-on-1. The enthusiasm was overwhelming. All the highly experienced product managers I talked to thought it was an excellent idea. It turns out we were all wrong. Eighteen months later, I'd completely changed what I was building, because I actually did the research. This is a case study in applying software product validation principles to a non-software product: what I tested, what failed, what surprised me, and how the business I launched looks nothing like the one I was pitching in those…
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Revenue Before Raise
Valuable insights for first-time and early-stage startup founders focusing on "revenue-before-capital-raise". Practical tips for creating value before borrowing.
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