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What's changed in product management in the past 20 years?

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Amy Mitchell
Apr 27, 2024
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What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are for premium subscribers to Product Management IRL.

This week’s backstory is a collaborative article about the changes in product management in the past 20 years (paid subscriber article):

Product Management Then and Now

Product Management Then and Now

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January 31, 2024
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What Prompted this Article?

This article started with a direct message on LinkedIn from Tanuj. He commented that I had been doing product management for more years than he had been alive! We decided to talk further on a video call about a collaborative article.

After our video call, I read through my daily notes from 2003-2004. I discovered that I was “snacking” on many unrelated tasks. A few major projects were mixed in, but it was hard to recall my accomplishments.

I almost told Tanuj that we shouldn’t write the article. I couldn’t come up with anything to write about!

It took a few days of reflecting on my product management activities to conclude there hasn’t been much change in product management in the past 20 years!

The real change is in thinking and organizing product management work. The differences are:

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