Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers

Product Management Stories by Productly Speaking

Productly Speaking is a product management podcast featuring product managers and builders telling real product stories. We dive into the human side of product work, exploring lessons learned, challenges faced, and how people actually approach product strategy in the real world.

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Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers

Episodes (28)

Feb 10th S4E4: AI, Product Failure, and the Skills PMs Need for What’s Next with Dina Atia
Feb 3rd S4E3: Beyond Dogfooding: Balancing Complexity and Market Insight with Jake Bowen-Bate
Jan 27th S4E2: Why Lean and Agile Struggle in Chunky Corporates with Katie Tamblin

Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers

Feb 10, 2026
34¾ minutes
30 MB

AI is supposed to feel magical. So why does it so often leave product teams confused, overpromised, or quietly disappointed? In this episode, Karl sits down with Dina Atia, a PM working on AI products at Microsoft, to talk about what it is actually like to build in the middle of the hype. Dina shares candid stories from the trenches, like watching teams chase “cool” AI ideas that never quite map to real human needs, and the moment she realized AI was not a mysterious genius but also definitely not “just matrix math,” either. Along the way...

Productly Speaking: Real Stories for Product Managers

S4E4: AI, Product Failure, and the Skills PMs Need for What’s Next with Dina Atia

Product Management Stories by Productly Speaking

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