The Product Leaders Library

Case Study

The €-Million Question. Save it - or kill it?

Double-digit million-euro investment on the line. Eighteen months later, the question had changed.

Jun 12, 2026

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The Biggest Challenge of AI Is Not Technological. It's Human.

AI looks like a tools story. It isn't.

Jun 9, 2026

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The Most Expensive Conflicts Are the Ones No One Leads

Most product organizations don't think they have a conflict problem. The expensive ones are the quiet disagreements.

Jul 20, 2026

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The Role Is Disappearing. The Responsibility Is Not.

The 2026 CPO Insights Report predicts the end of the product manager role by 2030. ProductPlan's State of Product Management Report shows that over 60 percent of prioritization frameworks are already overridden by leadership escalations. Read together, they describe one mechanism — and it is not about AI eating a job.

Sep 21, 2026

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What Evidence 18 Months Of AI Assisted Coding Created

After one and a half years of AI-coding, I’m convinced, the future belongs to better specs, not bigger teams.

Jun 30, 2026

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What is a Product Leader?

We got this question increasingly often and yes, it’s unclear to most people: What is the difference to a Product Owner? To Product Manager? Or is it the boss of them?

Sep 1, 2026

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Why Product Leaders Must Learn to Think Differently in the Age of AI

AI is transforming product development at unprecedented speed.

Jun 8, 2026

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