A Product Manager’s Playbook: AI Across the Entire Product Lifecycle
- The setup — Why a podcast episode changed how I work: building AI personas that know your product, your domain, and how you think
- Discovery — From raw interview notes to a concrete plan in one session
- Definition — Drafting projects, stories, and story maps from business input and rough ideas
- Ideation — Generating UI mocks from acceptance criteria, and a functioning prototype from a single prompt
- Refinement — Using AI as a UX reviewer that actually pushes back
- In development — Sorting technical feasibility questions and understanding existing code without waiting for an engineer
- The honest take — What AI is genuinely good at, where it falls flat, and what skills matter more now, not less