How To Create A Good Old Business Case For Your Roadmap!
The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. As the legendary statistician and management consultant, W. Edwards Dem... →
Why You Need to Maximize Your AI Opportunities
As a product manager, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to think too narrowly about the possibilities of AI. The technologies that enable AI are advancing rapidly and becoming more and more affordable, so it’s a prime time for companies to start taking advantage. And yet, despite the ... →
It’s Time To Get Serious About Developing Product Muscle
It’s amazing how many companies have lost their product mojo when they replaced their product-oriented founder with a CEO coming from sales, marketing, business development or finance. Unfortunately, CEOs that are sales or finance-led believe acquisitions or managing costs is the key to growth. B... →
Struggling With Your Product Leadership Team? Here's How To Manage Them!
Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there have been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) that is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defin... →
How Product Processes Can Shape Your Company Culture
Achieving product-driven leadership requires an organizational focus on cultural change. But what does that mean exactly? Your processes, how you’re supposed to do things, shape your culture. Product processes and company culture are therefore interconnected and rely on each other to succeed. Cul... →
How Your Leadership Team Can Be A Driving Force Behind Product Culture Failure
Product-led cultures elevate products to the highest levels of the company’s mission. But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product... →
Part Two: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization
The path to successful product-led growth is a tough one. What you want is for stakeholders to build good habits around roadmap completion, but unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. In our previous article in this two-part series, we looked at the importance of having the leadership team est... →
Part One: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization
Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. The most versatile and robust good habits are formed whe... →