Roman's Product Management Podcast

Over the past few years, many product teams have built AI fluency and started to apply AI to their work and products. This is a great start, but it is not enough to fully leverage AI in product management. Without the right product operating model in place, AI delivers only limited benefits. In this episode, I explain why this is and how you can create an effective product management approach that is optimised for AI.

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you,” Steve Jobs once said. Creating such a forward momentum is a key benefit that a product vision should offer. Unfortunately, I’ve seen many visions that failed to move people. In this episode, I explain how you can create a truly inspirational vision that engages and motivates people.

As product management becomes increasingly data-driven and AI-powered, one human capability is growing in importance: emotional intelligence. In this episode, you'll discover why emotional intelligence is a critical complement to data, analytics, and AI, how it helps product managers and product leaders create better products and build stronger relationships, and why it may have a greater impact on product success than intellectual ability alone. You'll also learn practical techniques for strengthening your emotional intelligence—from increasing self-awareness and self-management to developing empathy, active listening, and conflict-resolution skills.

One of the biggest mistakes I see product managers make is making decisions in isolation: Deciding on strategy without considering how it impacts product discovery and delivery, or determining UX and features without letting strategy guide those choices. Great products, however, aren’t built by separating strategy from execution. They’re created by connecting them. That’s exactly why I developed my product strategy model—a simple but powerful way to link product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog. This episode describes the framework in its latest, revised version.