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Field notes for CTOs and principal engineers: what shipped, what failed, and how to staff the next AI program. Depth first — no vendor recap.
Latest Articles
The Brief as Machine-Routable Work Unit: Replacing Tickets with Verification-Driven Outcomes
Discover why traditional Jira and Linear tickets fail autonomous AI agents, and how modern PM 3.0 product organizations replace activity tracking with Machine-Routable Briefs, automated verification gates, and real-time OKR outcome attribution.
The Builder-PM Archetype: When Product Managers Ship Code in 2026
Discover the rise of the Builder-PM. Learn how modern product managers use Cursor and Claude Code to replace 50-page PRDs with interactive pull requests.
Continuous Discovery Habits in the AI Age: Teresa Torres Framework Updated
Learn how to update Teresa Torres' Continuous Discovery Habits using AI-assisted interview synthesis, automated assumption testing, and opportunity.
Designing the North Star Metric: The Engineering Framework for Product-Led Growth and Algorithmic Alignment
How to design a mathematical North Star Metric tree using input leading indicators, counter-metric guardrails, and SQL aggregations to drive product.
Shape Up vs. Scrum in 2026: A Practitioner Verdict on Six-Week Cycles
A deep practitioner analysis comparing Basecamp's Shape Up with traditional Scrum, evaluating 6-week cycles, bet-based planning, and the transition from.
PLG 3.0: Agent-Led Growth and the Death of the Freemium Ceiling
Product-Led Growth (PLG) 3.0 shifts SaaS scaling to Agent-Led Growth (ALG).
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