PLC #54: What Next?
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
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Dear Community, it has been a really warm week and intense in communications as we are a month away from our conference, with tons of side events, interesting conversations, and checking out speakers' presentations.
I’ve been sick two full days to took time to reflect what next…
Some initial considerations: the Conference has been really a strong bet personally and the strong organizer team we have, bootstrapping a tech event isn't easy, and shiny as a corporate one, but is the most real, and this experience give us confidence to plan a 2026 with larger venue and audience but also reflecting what ProductLab will become.
We are on a mission to build a strong tech hub via network and knowledge sharing. This will stay with us, but also open doors to new services that we gonna share at the conference and soon online.
🎟 28th August - JetBrains: AI‑First Product Management
📅 Thursday 28th August
🕡 18.30-22.00
📍 Berlin-Kreuzberg
🎫 10 Tickets LEFT!
Perhaps the best way for us to celebrate someone who has been with us since the first meetups, as a mentor, friend, great joiner, and now Facilitator for the Strategic Decision-Making LAB - Florian Bonnet - is to see how leaders seed and grow within our community from those early, small meetup days. He has written a book in recent years while scaling his career, personal life, like everyone, building is branding and writing with tons of hand sketches (PS his presentation at Urban Sport Club was terrific), so we decide to purchase his book and make this something special for people joining our 2 day conference along other nice merch!
🔥 From our Partner: Turing College!
“Reskilling After a Layoff? We Got You.”
ProductLab was born out of the need to reinvent yourself after a layoff. If you’re in the same boat now—wondering how to pivot fast—Turing College offers a zero-cost path into AI and data careers, thanks to the German government’s Bildungsgutschein program. It’s not a MOOC or a lecture hall—it’s project-based, career-focused, and community-powered.You’ll complete sprints modeled after real product teams, supported by industry mentors and a 3,000+ strong learner network. Whether you’re going for your first role in data or want to sharpen your AI muscle for the next product job, the structure is there to push you forward—with career coaching, feedback sessions, and certificates that employers actually respect.
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
The Three Lenses Every PM Needs; what looks like chaos from the top might feel like focus on the ground, and vice versa. John Cutler explores how shifting between team, leadership, and system perspectives can turn confusion into clarity (and maybe save your sanity).
The 5-Second Product Simplicity Test!
If removing a feature makes your product better, was it really helping in the first place? Amaria Avior shares a quick, ruthless lens for spotting (and cutting) complexity before it slows you down.The “Just Ship It” Problem in AI
We’ve all heard “just ship it”, but in AI, rushing something out the door can backfire fast. Leah Tharin shares why slowing down, just a bit, can mean the difference between a quick buzz and a product people truly trust and love.
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila