Managing the AI-Native Product
In Chapter 6, we discussed the different stages of the AI-native product development cycle, the dream team that will power your AI-native product, and the way you’d position and sell that product. We also covered the establishment of a product vision, strategy, and roadmap in Chapter 8. In this chapter, we’ll be expanding on some of those concepts to better understand what the management life cycle looks like after you’ve launched a product. Managing the AI-native product is a discipline in and of itself and it’s what makes the work of a PM challenging. It’s one thing to build and enter a market from scratch and quite another to maintain and manage the product thereafter.
As is often the case, hiring managers and recruiters breathe a sigh of relief when a PM comes from an engineering background because they feel it means they will better empathize with the dev team that will support their product. While that’...