How Product Organizations Scale Without Splitting Strategy from ExecutionQuick recap from my previous article: In high-performing product organizations, strategy and execution aren't split between different roles. Every product team needs someone who owns both the "why" anApr 8, 2026·5 min read
Don't Split Product Strategy from ExecutionMention the Product Owner role to someone from a startup or scale-up background, and you'll likely get a blank stare. They'll probably google it later to figure out what you meant. On the contrary, peFeb 20, 2026·7 min read
Spec-Driven Development: Ship Features with AI GuardrailsSomething has fundamentally shifted in how we build software. A year ago, if you told us we'd ship a production web application — 8 major features, 11 releases, 17,000 lines of TypeScript across a full-stack React + Express codebase — with AI writing...Feb 12, 2026·6 min read
Event Storming and Context Mapping for Data & AI Product ManagersDiscovery and requirements gathering are among the most critical phases of data product management. Yet they're also among the most challenging. Too often, data teams fall into the trap of being order-takers, responding to ad-hoc requests rather than...Jan 30, 2026·6 min read
Product Managers and the Art of Engineering a 'Yes'If you spend any time reading about product management online, you'll frequently encounter a piece of advice: saying no is the product manager's superpower. There are countless guides on how to say no, why to say no, and frameworks for saying no with...Jan 19, 2026·6 min read
Copilot VS. Custom LLM: Navigating the Generative BI LandscapeFor years, Business Intelligence has followed a familiar, often frustrating pattern. An executive has a question, an analyst hunts for the answer, engineers build data pipelines, and eventually—days or weeks later—a dashboard appears. By the time the...Dec 16, 2025·8 min read
Is Your Organization Ready for Data Mesh? A Practical Readiness CheckYou are being asked to make a long‑term bet on data architecture. Most conversations frame this as a choice between data lake and data mesh. Vendors, internal teams, and reference architectures encourage you to pick a side. 💡 “Data lake vs data mes...Dec 11, 2025·11 min read
