Roberto
@tiorob.bsky.social
CPTO, mostly talks about Product and Technology
This article offers a nuanced perspective on micromanagement's different types. "Complexity-based" and "taste-based" micromanagement can work for achieving desired outcomes, especially in product & tech. Understanding is key. shreyasdoshi.substack.com/p/understand... #Leadership #ProductManagement
Understanding Micromanagement
Some micromanagement is necessary. Some micromanagement is counterproductive. Understand the 4 types of micromanagement, when it makes sense to micromanage, and how to talk to a team member about it.
shreyasdoshi.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This article offers a nuanced perspective on micromanagement's different types. "Complexity-based" and "taste-based" micromanagement can work for achieving desired outcomes, especially in product & tech. Understanding is key. shreyasdoshi.substack.com/p/understand... #Leadership #ProductManagement
Great read on why corporate transformations stall: poor communication, ignoring bottom-up insight, and chasing tasks over outcomes. Focus on learning loops and people-first change in product and Agile. Dive into the full piece: ageling.substack.com/p/how-great-... #ProductManagement #Agile
How great corporate ambitions die
10 Transformation Mistakes
ageling.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Great read on why corporate transformations stall: poor communication, ignoring bottom-up insight, and chasing tasks over outcomes. Focus on learning loops and people-first change in product and Agile. Dive into the full piece: ageling.substack.com/p/how-great-... #ProductManagement #Agile
Product and agile leaders know it is about how we respond, not who we face. This Barking Up The Wrong Tree piece maps four archetypes—narcissist, drama monarch, bully, perfectionist—and shows framing, timing, and thinking-before-reacting as our edge. bakadesuyo.com/2025/11/diff... #ProductManagement
How To Deal With Difficult People At Work: 4 Secrets From Experts - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Difficult people at work can drive you crazy. A clinical psychologist explains the best ways to handle them...
bakadesuyo.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Product and agile leaders know it is about how we respond, not who we face. This Barking Up The Wrong Tree piece maps four archetypes—narcissist, drama monarch, bully, perfectionist—and shows framing, timing, and thinking-before-reacting as our edge. bakadesuyo.com/2025/11/diff... #ProductManagement
Modern teams constantly shuffle through Aligning, Belonging, Co Creating, Adapting and Sustaining—not a neat line. Safety, inclusion and real-time adaptability power product teams in distributed work. Explore the original by Andi Roberts: andiroberts.com/teamwork/why... #Agile
Tuckman’s Model vs Modern Teams: A New Five Stage Approach
Bruce Tuckman’s five-stage model has been a staple of organisational life since the 1960s. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning offered leaders a reassuring map of how teams were…
andiroberts.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Modern teams constantly shuffle through Aligning, Belonging, Co Creating, Adapting and Sustaining—not a neat line. Safety, inclusion and real-time adaptability power product teams in distributed work. Explore the original by Andi Roberts: andiroberts.com/teamwork/why... #Agile
Tools aren’t magic; they’re state-sensitive. TBM 392 shows how tools help or hinder depending on the behaviour state—and blockers: capability, opportunity, motivation. As leaders, we design scaffolds, reduce friction, and codify meaning. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-392-wh... #Product #Agile
TBM 392: When (And How) Tools Matter
A video post!
cutlefish.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Tools aren’t magic; they’re state-sensitive. TBM 392 shows how tools help or hinder depending on the behaviour state—and blockers: capability, opportunity, motivation. As leaders, we design scaffolds, reduce friction, and codify meaning. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-392-wh... #Product #Agile
Three years in, ChatGPT hasn’t solved cognition or delivered durable ROI. For product leaders and agile teams, reliability and guardrails matter more than hype. Gary Marcus argues we need basic, structured AI, not a miracle: garymarcus.substack.com/p/three-year... #ProductManagement #AI
Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be
A skeptic’s pre-mortem
garymarcus.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Three years in, ChatGPT hasn’t solved cognition or delivered durable ROI. For product leaders and agile teams, reliability and guardrails matter more than hype. Gary Marcus argues we need basic, structured AI, not a miracle: garymarcus.substack.com/p/three-year... #ProductManagement #AI
I'm a regular user: Claude boosts productivity and broadens engineers' scope, but raises questions on craft, mentoring and career paths. A timely read for product leaders shaping agile, AI-enabled teams. Explore the original: anthropic.com/research/how... #ProductManagement #AI
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic
anthropic.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm a regular user: Claude boosts productivity and broadens engineers' scope, but raises questions on craft, mentoring and career paths. A timely read for product leaders shaping agile, AI-enabled teams. Explore the original: anthropic.com/research/how... #ProductManagement #AI
Speed comes with turbulence: in my experience velocity without mature systems costs more later. Build slack, ownership, and fast feedback loops to turn bumps into learning. This piece on why everything new has bugs nails the dynamic. mikefisher.substack.com/p/everything... #ProductManagement #Agile
Everything New Has Bugs
Increasing velocity and quality
mikefisher.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Speed comes with turbulence: in my experience velocity without mature systems costs more later. Build slack, ownership, and fast feedback loops to turn bumps into learning. This piece on why everything new has bugs nails the dynamic. mikefisher.substack.com/p/everything... #ProductManagement #Agile
AI-powered workflows are reshaping product work. This guide explains how to choose what to automate vs augment, with real examples and a practical framework for agile teams. AI-enhanced productivity for the win! www.producttalk.org/how-to-choos... #ProductManagement #AI
How to Choose Which Tasks to Automate with AI (+50 Real Examples)
Audio Version ($) Every morning, I sit down at my computer with my cup of coffee and I type /today into Claude Code. I take my first few sips of coffee as I watch Claude retrieve new tasks from my…
www.producttalk.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI-powered workflows are reshaping product work. This guide explains how to choose what to automate vs augment, with real examples and a practical framework for agile teams. AI-enhanced productivity for the win! www.producttalk.org/how-to-choos... #ProductManagement #AI
McKinsey shows only 6% of firms are AI high performers delivering 5%+ EBIT; 95% see little return. Costs cut in ops; revenue gains in marketing. Adoption sits around 10%. If even they can't claim ROI, the bubble is real!: www.2ndorderthinkers.com/p/explain-th... #AI #ProductManagement
Explain The McKinsey 2025 AI Report
Spending More On AI Makes You Twice As Likely To Fail (McKinsey's Own Data)
www.2ndorderthinkers.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
McKinsey shows only 6% of firms are AI high performers delivering 5%+ EBIT; 95% see little return. Costs cut in ops; revenue gains in marketing. Adoption sits around 10%. If even they can't claim ROI, the bubble is real!: www.2ndorderthinkers.com/p/explain-th... #AI #ProductManagement
Exploring OpenRouter’s State of AI for its practical view on tooling, governance and delivering value. It highlights responsible AI and cross-functional collaboration, core to the modern Product Teams. Read the full piece: openrouter.ai/state-of-ai #ProductManagement #AI
State of AI | OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.
openrouter.ai
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Exploring OpenRouter’s State of AI for its practical view on tooling, governance and delivering value. It highlights responsible AI and cross-functional collaboration, core to the modern Product Teams. Read the full piece: openrouter.ai/state-of-ai #ProductManagement #AI
Tech debt is the elephant in the room for product teams—balance it with architectural progress or velocity will dwindle. 💡 Prioritise debt with your tech leads, keep a living roadmap, and safeguard value delivery. Explore: www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/tech-de... #ProductLeadership #Agile
The tech debt elephant: A product perspective
Maximise your product's chances of success by balancing tech debt and architectural improvements: tips from a product manager.
www.hyperact.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Tech debt is the elephant in the room for product teams—balance it with architectural progress or velocity will dwindle. 💡 Prioritise debt with your tech leads, keep a living roadmap, and safeguard value delivery. Explore: www.hyperact.co.uk/blog/tech-de... #ProductLeadership #Agile
LinkedIn’s Tomer Cohen rethinks PM as AI-powered Full Stack Builders—coding, design and PM fused, culture-led. A bold step toward faster, leaner delivery and a blueprint for AI-enabled agile teams. See how it reframes skills: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-linked... #AI #ProductManagement
Why LinkedIn is replacing PMs with AI-powered “full-stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
LinkedIn's CPO on killing the APM program, inventing "full-stack builders" and going all-in on AI
www.lennysnewsletter.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
LinkedIn’s Tomer Cohen rethinks PM as AI-powered Full Stack Builders—coding, design and PM fused, culture-led. A bold step toward faster, leaner delivery and a blueprint for AI-enabled agile teams. See how it reframes skills: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-linked... #AI #ProductManagement
Are agile ceremonies theatre? Real agility lives in transparent, courageous conversations—not ticking boxes. For me, transparency, trust and adaptation matter for customer value; Scrum is not agile. Leaders must model openness. Dive in: age-of-product.com/mechanical-c... #Agile #ProductManagement
Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations
From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations: Why Failure Is Not Always a Bug, But a Feature — Age-of-Product.com
age-of-product.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Are agile ceremonies theatre? Real agility lives in transparent, courageous conversations—not ticking boxes. For me, transparency, trust and adaptation matter for customer value; Scrum is not agile. Leaders must model openness. Dive in: age-of-product.com/mechanical-c... #Agile #ProductManagement
Stewart Butterfield reveals product craft through utility curves, the owner’s delusion and hyper-realistic work-like tasks—insights that resonate with how I shape PM and Agile leadership. Explore his leadership playbook in full: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/slack-foun... #ProductManagement #Agile
Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
The founder of Slack and Flickr on the "owner's delusion," why reducing friction can be counterproductive, why generous leadership wins and more
www.lennysnewsletter.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Stewart Butterfield reveals product craft through utility curves, the owner’s delusion and hyper-realistic work-like tasks—insights that resonate with how I shape PM and Agile leadership. Explore his leadership playbook in full: www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/slack-foun... #ProductManagement #Agile
Design isn't just aesthetics—it reveals underlying primitives and combines them into new realities. Notion's blocks, Cursor's concept-level tooling, and AI as a new primitive reshape my view of product thinking from features to systems. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900... #ProductManagement #Agile
Thread by @ryolu_ on Thread Reader App
@ryolu_: making things true: design is the practice of seeing through the surface of things to understand their underlying structure, then rearranging those elements into new forms that didn't exist…
threadreaderapp.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Design isn't just aesthetics—it reveals underlying primitives and combines them into new realities. Notion's blocks, Cursor's concept-level tooling, and AI as a new primitive reshape my view of product thinking from features to systems. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19900... #ProductManagement #Agile
As a product and tech leader, I value practical models that convert intent into impact. Andi Roberts’ Team Dynamics Framework breaks Mindset, Mechanics and Alignment into 10 concrete components that sharpen cross‑team clarity and velocity. andiroberts.com/teamwork/tea... #TeamDynamics
Team Dynamics Framework: A Research Based Approach to Better Performance
Over the few decades, I have coached and worked with teams across many industries, and the same pattern continues to appear: most teams want to perform at a higher level, yet lack a clear, shared…
andiroberts.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As a product and tech leader, I value practical models that convert intent into impact. Andi Roberts’ Team Dynamics Framework breaks Mindset, Mechanics and Alignment into 10 concrete components that sharpen cross‑team clarity and velocity. andiroberts.com/teamwork/tea... #TeamDynamics
Agile isn’t dead, it’s evolving—AI reshapes how we learn, iterate. Allan Kelly argues agile endures via learning, feedback and sociotechnical thinking—in product teams, even as methods shift. Read the original piece: www.allankelly.net/archives/105... #Agile #ProductManagement
Agile: not Dead, but evolving
Head on: is agile dead? No, it is everywhere. But the mania is over. Agile won’t return, but the ideas in it will.
www.allankelly.net
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Agile isn’t dead, it’s evolving—AI reshapes how we learn, iterate. Allan Kelly argues agile endures via learning, feedback and sociotechnical thinking—in product teams, even as methods shift. Read the original piece: www.allankelly.net/archives/105... #Agile #ProductManagement
Gemini 3 Pro is presented as intelligent — superb for rapid ideation, frontend work and coding, yet it has no spine: it often answers the question it infers you want, not the one you asked. Add guardrails, memory prompts and disciplined prompting. thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/g... #Product #Agile
Gemini 3 Pro Is a Vast Intelligence With No Spine
It’s A Great Model, Sir One might even say the best model. It is for now my default weapon of choice. Google’s official announcement of Gemini 3 Pro is full of big talk. Google tells us: Welcome to…
thezvi.wordpress.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Gemini 3 Pro is presented as intelligent — superb for rapid ideation, frontend work and coding, yet it has no spine: it often answers the question it infers you want, not the one you asked. Add guardrails, memory prompts and disciplined prompting. thezvi.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/g... #Product #Agile
Critical thinking in the AI era shifts the cognitive load: sketch intent, evaluate AI-generated output, and refine understanding. It’s theory-building, evidence, and disciplined prompting—the core skills for modern product and agile work. capgemini.github.io/engineering/... #AI
Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
How AI redistributes critical thinking for software engineers—from generation to evaluation, theory building, and structured prompting—covering code, architecture, product decisions, team dynamics,…
capgemini.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Critical thinking in the AI era shifts the cognitive load: sketch intent, evaluate AI-generated output, and refine understanding. It’s theory-building, evidence, and disciplined prompting—the core skills for modern product and agile work. capgemini.github.io/engineering/... #AI
Product discovery is a balance: centralized vs empowered, opinion vs evidence. The Product Operating Model—empowered teams, data-backed decisions—fits how I lead: fast, aligned, evidence-led. Most organisations sit in hybrids. Where do you stand? itamargilad.com/product-disc... #ProductManagement
Four Product Discovery Models: A Practical Map - Itamar Gilad
A clear map of the four ways companies decide what to build. Why command-and-control isn't the best and how to avoid gradual drift.
itamargilad.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Product discovery is a balance: centralized vs empowered, opinion vs evidence. The Product Operating Model—empowered teams, data-backed decisions—fits how I lead: fast, aligned, evidence-led. Most organisations sit in hybrids. Where do you stand? itamargilad.com/product-disc... #ProductManagement
Setbacks are part of meaningful product work. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille show why grieving failure, decoupling outcomes from performance, and continuous discovery build resilience. A must-listen for PMs. Curious how they frame recovery? www.producttalk.org/dealing-with...
Dealing With Setbacks - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In this heartfelt episode of All Things Product, Petra Wille and Teresa Torres talk about something we all experience but rarely discuss openly —…
www.producttalk.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Setbacks are part of meaningful product work. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille show why grieving failure, decoupling outcomes from performance, and continuous discovery build resilience. A must-listen for PMs. Curious how they frame recovery? www.producttalk.org/dealing-with...
AI can generate code and ideas, but critical thinking remains the differentiator for product leaders navigating tech. Who to involve, what problem to solve, where context matters, when to dig deep, why, and how to test. A framework I respect for AI-enabled teams. addyo.substack.com/p/critical-t...
Critical Thinking during the age of AI
Who, what, where, when, why, how
addyo.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
AI can generate code and ideas, but critical thinking remains the differentiator for product leaders navigating tech. Who to involve, what problem to solve, where context matters, when to dig deep, why, and how to test. A framework I respect for AI-enabled teams. addyo.substack.com/p/critical-t...
Claude Skills cut busywork and speed delivery: 6 practical skills you can steal—from LinkedIn Post Writer to PRD Writer and Product Designer. A pragmatic look at domain-specific AI that fits real product work. See the exact skills and how to start today: www.news.aakashg.com/p/steal-6-of... #AI
Steal 6 of My Claude Skills: AI Update #2
In today's AI update, I show you 6 Claude Skills that actually save time and how to stack them together + cover the AI news you missed in the last week.
www.news.aakashg.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Claude Skills cut busywork and speed delivery: 6 practical skills you can steal—from LinkedIn Post Writer to PRD Writer and Product Designer. A pragmatic look at domain-specific AI that fits real product work. See the exact skills and how to start today: www.news.aakashg.com/p/steal-6-of... #AI
Emotions shape product choices as much as data. This piece asks leaders to decouple ego from reality and lead with emotionally intelligent clarity—exactly the stance I push for in modern PM and Agile. A timely read. thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/why-are-my...
“Why are my stakeholders so unreasonable?”
When "data-driven" leadership backfires.
thoughtfuleng.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Emotions shape product choices as much as data. This piece asks leaders to decouple ego from reality and lead with emotionally intelligent clarity—exactly the stance I push for in modern PM and Agile. A timely read. thoughtfuleng.substack.com/p/why-are-my...