2025 Trends in Product Management - follow up story
A deeper dive on the top 5 trends
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This week’s backstory is checking on my 2025 Product Management Trends:
What is happening to solidify these trends?
What Prompted this Article?
This was my second year commenting on emerging trends in product management. I gather the trends from my daily work and by talking with product managers about this newsletter.
The push for product managers to bridge the business and technical worlds is continuing this year. AI is embedded in most of our work.
To recap, the key trends I’m seeing are:
With AI backing us, collaborate – no single person knows it all; working together is key
Working with product marketing provides concentrated insights to customers and markets
Increasing partnerships are needed to meet customers’ requirements
Compliance and regulatory requirements are foundational to products – product managers need to consider this at all stages of the lifecycle
Flattening organizations depend on product managers to lead virtual teams
What Happened After this Article?
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