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The pace of change in product management is increasing

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Amy Mitchell
Aug 01, 2025
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What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are exclusive to premium subscribers of Product Management IRL.

This week’s backstory is about a product management trend that I missed in this article:

Mid-Year Product Management Trends Update

Mid-Year Product Management Trends Update

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Jun 4
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What Prompted This Article?

With all the AI for product managers talk, I didn’t think there would be anything to cover on product management trends beyond vibe coding, evals and AI agents. For fun, I challenged myself to find trends beyond orchestrating AI agents.

I was surprised to find big changes 6 months after the first article on product management trends. As we use AI more, we iterate faster and our product management craft evolves faster. We are experimenting more, which leads to new ways of doing product.

The summary is:

  • 3 trends are evolving as we use AI more

  • 2 trends have moved into the mainstream process

  • 3 new trends popped up mid-year

PM trends summary

What Happened After This Article?

I noticed a missing trend shortly after this article:

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