Ken Norton spent years as a Group Product Manager at Google before noticing something that should have been obvious: Google had principal software engineers and principal designers, but no principal...

Stripe's 2018 Developer Coefficient study surveyed developers across 300+ companies and found that engineers spend 33% of their working hours dealing with technical debt. Not building features. Not...

Most product management advice treats stakeholder conflict as a communication problem. Improve your status updates, align on OKRs, share the roadmap earlier. But the hardest stakeholder conflicts...

Three years into running IT operations at a regional telecom, I noticed a pattern that changed how I thought about product feedback. Every quarter, the product team presented interview findings that...

Adobe agreed to pay $20 billion for Figma in September 2022. Fifteen months later, regulators killed the deal, and Adobe wrote a $1 billion termination check. By mid-2025, Figma's independent...

Simon-Kucher & Partners studied more than 10,000 product launches across three decades. The finding that should concern every product manager: 72% of new products fail to meet their financial targets...