Product Managementin the Agentic Era · Asaf Saar
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Product Management in the Agentic Era

By Asaf Saar · 22 chapters in 4 parts

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Companion guide27 min

Finding Your Way Into Product

For anyone moving into product management: the role, personal fit, career transitions and practice, in more detail than the book.

  1. What a Product Manager Actually Does
  2. Is Product Management Right for You?
  3. Your Starting Point Is an Asset
  4. Earning Your First Product Role
  5. A twelve-week practice plan
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Or start from your work

Start building

Write a brief an agent can follow, iterate, and check what a passing result establishes.

  1. A Story the Builder Can Follow
  2. The Build Loop
  3. Decide What You Are Building
  4. The Independent Check
Then shape a product bet

Lead a team

Redistribute ownership, make continue, change or stop decisions, and give people room to build.

  1. PM, Not PO
  2. Continue, Change, Stop
  3. Giving People Room to Build
  4. Changing How the Company Works
Then shape a product bet

Design employee agents

Decide what an agent may read, do and send, and who can stop it.

  1. The Agentic Development Life Cycle
  2. An Agent in My Working Life
  3. From My Agent to Every Employee
  4. Authority and the Right to Stop
Then shape a product bet

Before you begin

  1. Preface2 min

Part IIntent

  1. 01Closing the Loop7 min
  2. 02Thirty Years Across Engineering and Product8 min
  3. 03The Agentic Development Life Cycle8 min
  4. 04PM, Not PO12 min
  5. 05Getting Back Outside10 min
  6. 06A Story the Builder Can Follow10 min

Part IIBuild

  1. 07Finding Your Way Into the Work10 min
  2. 08The Build Loop9 min
  3. 09Decide What You Are Building8 min
  4. 10An Agent in My Working Life11 min
  5. 11From My Agent to Every Employee11 min

Part IIIEvidence

  1. 12The Independent CheckFree sample12 min
  2. 13Measure the Work That Matters9 min
  3. 14From a Working Product to a Business9 min
  4. 15From Intent to Evidence10 min

Part IVDecision

  1. 16Continue, Change, Stop9 min
  2. 17Authority and the Right to Stop12 min
  3. 18Two Clocks for One Organization11 min
  4. 19Giving People Room to Build11 min
  5. 20Changing How the Company Works8 min
  6. 21Choosing Product Management12 min
  7. 22The Product Manager You Become6 min

Back matter

  1. Epilogue: What Will You Build?3 min
  2. Appendix: Practices to Use in Your Own Work4 min
  3. Glossary2 min
  4. Source Notes2 min
  5. About the Author2 min