How to stay relevant when the PM role keeps rewriting itself

Melissa Perri chimes in on how AI is changing the product role, and makes the case for measuring PMs by decisions changed and outcomes shipped, not by tickets written and docs generated: If you are a PM, stop measuring your productivity by how many tickets you wrote, how many pages of documentation you spun up, or how fast you closed the loop on the last sprint. That work is going to keep getting easier. Measure your productivity by how often you changed a decision that mattered, how often you saw around a corner, how often a senior leader walked out of a room thinking differently because of something you said. How often your shipped features translate into real customer outcomes is what matters. Everything I read is saying the same thing right now: judgment, customer understanding, and the ability to change a senior leader's mind in a room are the skills that AI can't touch. I'm not disagreeing necessarily, but I do think that narrative is missing a big new skill that is needed. I…