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PillarFocus: AI product lifecycle management

Product Execution: delivering while models move

Who it's for

For product managers and product owners in the engine room: tactics for sprints, prototypes, drift and roles in everyday life with AI features.

AI features age, training cycles break sprints, and responsibility seeps away between PM, data science and engineering. This pillar delivers the execution tactics for the whole lifecycle – from the spec through the MVP to drift monitoring.

The deep dives in this pillar

Each cluster answers one search intent – with a focus keyword and a clear content promise. Published, or transparently in progress.

Focus: Agile product development for AI / ML

Agile for AI: sprints that survive model training

Spikes instead of stories, eval in the definition of done – delivering and learning cleanly separated.

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Focus: Minimum viable product (MVP) for AI

The MVP for AI: test the wizard before you build the machine

Wizard of Oz and foundation models: validate AI hypotheses in days instead of quarters.

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Focus: Managing AI model drift

Model drift: when your product quietly degrades

91 per cent of models degrade – eval sets, thresholds and rollback paths for life after launch.

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Focus: AI product team structure

PM, data scientist, ML engineer: who does what?

Role boundaries that work – and the two launch questions every AI team must answer in writing.

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Focus: Spotify model product management

Why the Spotify model fails – even more so with AI agents

Squads, tribes and the lessons of their failure – updated for teams whose most autonomous member is an AI.

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Focus: spec-driven development product management

Discovery stays human, execution becomes the spec

The division of labour between PM and agent in brownfield – with evidence from METR, GitClear, DORA and Anthropic.

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Focus: Jira ticket AI product management

The anatomy of a Jira ticket for AI product management

From a 100-word pointer to a context-complete prompt – the four phases, BMAD story files and context engineering.

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Focus: product management glossary Jira Linear

A shared language: the PM glossary for Jira & Linear

Work units, planning, metrics – the vocabulary your lifecycle is steered with.

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Simon ScheurerMathias WegmüllerMarc Gasser
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