Ty Sutherland - Product Management Resources

Most Product Managers Choose Management for the Wrong Reason

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...

Technical Debt Is a Product Decision

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...

When Stakeholders Want Opposite Things

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...

What Support Tickets Reveal That Interviews Miss

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...

Build, Buy, or Partner: The Strategic Decision Behind Every Product Roadmap

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...

Pricing Is Product Strategy

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...

About the Author

Ty Sutherland is the editor of Product Management Resources. With a quarter-century of product expertise under his belt, Ty is a seasoned veteran in the world of product management. A dedicated student of lean principles, he is driven by the ambition to transform organizations into Exponential Organizations (ExO) with a massive transformative purpose. Ty's passion isn't just limited to theory; he's an avid experimenter, always eager to try out a myriad of products and services. While he has a soft spot for tools that enhance the lives of product managers, his curiosity knows no bounds. If you're ever looking for him online, there's a good chance he's scouring his favorite site, Product Hunt, for the next big thing. Join Ty as he navigates the ever-evolving product landscape, sharing insights, reviews, and invaluable lessons from his vast experience.

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