Marty Cagan joins Carmen Palmer for this episode in our monthly series, In The Lead.

Marty is a renowned product executive and author, and is widely considered a thought leader in the field of Product Management. He is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), where he advises companies on how to create successful products using the practices of world-class tech organizations.

Marty is the author of influential books on the topic of product management and product teams including

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model

Recently Marty and the team at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) have been exploring the use of AI LLMs as product coaches. As always Marty has strong views on the adoption of AI technology enabling true product builders, the increasing importance of true empowered product managers, and how AI Models can assist in the transition by coaching PMs and Product Leaders..

In The Lead is a monthly series on Product Rising sharing thought provoking conversations with a wide range of industry leaders hosted by Carmen Palmer, CEO of Women In Product.

Your AI Product Coach

00:00 Reckoning for Product

03:11 GenAI Changes the Stakes

07:11 Feature vs Empowered Teams

09:57 Build to Learn vs Earn

12:18 Prototyping Tools Boom

13:37 New PM Litmus Test

16:05 Why Coaching Fails

20:57 AI Coaching Tipping Point

23:58 Prompting for Product Model

27:30 Load Strategic Context

28:19 Strategic Context Inputs

29:23 Project Model Prompts

30:52 AI Coaching Limits

34:58 Why Humans Still Matter

38:42 What Coaching Looks Like

39:25 Building Product Sense Fast

42:01 Frameworks For Real Work

45:23 Adoption Curve Reality

49:13 Career Advice And Wrap

📚Resources:

SVPG Product Coaching and AI
Configuring Your Model As Product Coach - an example of how to get started using an AI Model to provide product coaching

✨Where to find Marty:

On LinkedIn
Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) Website & Newsletter sign up

💫 Where to find Carmen:

On LinkedIn

🙋🏻‍♀️Where to find Women in Product:

On LinkedIn
Website https://womenpm.org/
Join the Community https://womenpm.org/wip-community/