Andrea Sipos 🚢

Here are my 5 most popular Ship 30 essays about building your Product Management career - from necessary skills through CV, interview, and promotions. Check this thread to read them in one go. 👇🧵 #ship30for30 #prodmgmt

Our new paper in @ScienceMagazine shows that the adoption of AI in software development is explosive. By end 2024, 30% of Python functions on GitHub by US-based devs are written by AI. But we also see that it is rather experienced developers who benefit from using AI.

The CEO of @boltdotnew on why product managers are the best-positioned role in tech to thrive in a world of AI.

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“I cannot change the world without seeing more of it.” This one is for the #BRIDGERTON fans, but also for all teams who do not involve users in their product discovery as often as they could.

“Our decision is to: Accept Submission” My first paper will be published soon. #academiclife

In this post I want to say thank you to my amazing guests. Thanks for your trust and spending the time with me recording the episodes. It was always heaps of fun and I get goosebumps seeing what we have produced over the course of one year! Thank you!

I was not aware of any fractional product role before I met @MirelaMus. Now @aakashgupta and @onejasonknight published this incredible post on this topic. They interviewed 20 fractional product leaders and summarised everything just for you. Check it out 👇

Summer of 2023 in a nutshell.

@dvassallo I'm happy to do a session on Product Analytics, eg. how to measure the success of websites or smaller SaaS products. Theoretical mainly, but tooling can be included if they want it.

Who wants to teach something for smallbets.com? We pay $1000 per session (90mins on Zoom). Audience interested in side projects and general self-employment skills. Can't accept everyone, but I'll keep every response in the pocket. Reply below 👇

I'm working with the @VizzuHQ team to make their vision a reality. ✨ Join the waiting list to see the product as soon as possible! :)

So product management only goes back to the beginning - making sure that the product is successful by focusing on the market, rather than the execution of a software development.

The role in software development started to come closer to execution and slowly lost its strong connection to business and marketing. It went so far that today, most people don’t even know that the basics of product management and product discovery are marketing techniques.

There is no revolution or dramatic change in the product management role - it simply goes back to its origins: a business-focused, marketing-oriented role. A thread:

@ZeroCounty Thank you!

@AASipos That sounds like a comprehensive approach to teaching Product Management! I'm sure the frameworks will be really helpful for anyone following the thread

Last year I ran a cohort-based Product Management course. I gave the students one framework for each stage of the product development process. Now I share these frameworks in this thread 👇 #productmanagement #prodmgmt #ship30for30 #startups

How did product management change in 2023? Let's cover: 1. The Market 2. The Profession 3. The PM Content Landscape 1. The Market The brutal tech job market that we saw at the end of 2022 continued. January was actually the peak layoff month, with them decreasing but continuing every subsequent month. It was no 2020-2021, where the job market was roaring. A substantial number of PMs were on the market, looking for jobs. This also made existing PMs hesitant to move. Overall, far fewer PMs moved companies in 2023 than in the prior 10 years. 2. The Profession Several major trends accelerated in 2023: • The PM as GM • PMs managing higher ratios of engineers • A compression of PM 'middle management' for ICs All three of these trends were actually trending in the other direction for prior decade: • PMs were focusing on input metrics • Ratios of PM:Eng were skewing to less Eng • We saw lots of Directors of Product and Group PMs These were all directly attributable to the reversal of the tech bull market. On the bright side, one area of PM did grow by leaps and bounds: AI PMs. With the breakthroughs this year, tons of big tech companies and startups hired AI PMs. 3. The PM Content Landscape The content landscape had its biggest impact on the profession yet. Lenny's Podcast broke onto the broader tech scene in a big way. His string of interviews on 'How X does Product' had a particularly large impact. Product leaders everywhere began to question the accepted dogma. Inspired by contrarian examples like Linear (with just 1 PM) and Ramp (who doesn't do OKRs), they started re-imagining the PM role. This was capped off by Lenny's interview with Brian Chesky, which questioned whether teams needed to be empowered at all. More than a few tech execs took note. Even Marty Cagan had to write a response. While @lennysan had a phenomenal year, so did many other creators. To name a few: • @shreyas, @marilynika, @davidavpereira and others had very successful Maven courses • @ElenaVerna, @bbalfour, @far33d and the Reforge crew continued to set the bar for deep growth and PM content • @petergyang, @PawelHuryn, @richeholmes and @herbigt newsletters' grew by leaps and bounds X, on the other hand, had a struggling year. Most content creators shifted to LinkedIn, where the conversation has been more rich. But, overall - it was a great 2023 for PM. And 2024 looks bright. What did I miss?

Season 2 of my podcast comes to an end. 12 episodes were planned 🗓️ 12 episodes were released ✅ Thank you to all my guests. It was heaps of fun and I'm very grateful you took the time to have a chat about Product Management topics 🙇 All episodes can be found here 🧵

@GergelyOrosz If you know somebody who can knit, this is a great alternative :) ravelry.com/patterns/libra…

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY LEGO. Oh, wait... "Unfortunately, the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set." :(