Gene Kim was right in "Vibe Coding" the implementation bottleneck is gone.
What he didn't say out loud? The organizational bottleneck is next.
Just published: "The Death of the Traditional Product Owner"
In it, I argue that 90% of Fortune 500 Product Owner roles as practiced today will cease to exist within 24 months.
Not because AI is cruel. Because they were always a workaround for a broken system.
The best POs? They're about to become the most valuable engineers on the planet. The rest? They're about to discover what Ops teams learned in 2015.
After 20 years of transforming engineering organizations (Pearson, Aetna, AWS ProServe, Comcast), I've seen this pattern before:
2014: "Containers will never replace Ops"
2016: "Serverless is just a fad"
2025: "Product Owners are essential"
We know how those movies ended.
OutcomeOps makes it safe, auditable, and compliant for engineers to own outcomes directly - even in regulated environments.
No more telephone games. No more 12-18 handoffs per feature. No more requirement translators.
Just engineers shipping business value.
P.S. If you're a Product Owner feeling uncomfortable right now - good. That feeling is your starting line.
Just published: "The Death of the Traditional Product Owner" In it, I argue that 90% of Fortune 500 Product Owner roles as practiced today will cease to exist within 24 months.
Not because AI is cruel. Because they were always a workaround for a broken system.
The best POs? They're about to become the most valuable engineers on the planet. The rest? They're about to discover what Ops teams learned in 2015.
After 20 years of transforming engineering organizations (Pearson, Aetna, AWS ProServe, Comcast), I've seen this pattern before: 2014: "Containers will never replace Ops" 2016: "Serverless is just a fad" 2025: "Product Owners are essential"
We know how those movies ended.
OutcomeOps makes it safe, auditable, and compliant for engineers to own outcomes directly - even in regulated environments.
No more telephone games. No more 12-18 handoffs per feature. No more requirement translators.
Just engineers shipping business value.
P.S. If you're a Product Owner feeling uncomfortable right now - good. That feeling is your starting line.