Common lore says that most product initiatives fail. Over the last 10 years, lean and product discovery practices have increased because they help us validate opportunities in the risky world of product development. From personal experience, I know that many initiatives fail, but I have not found a source that compiles evidence as a benchmark […]
70% of product initiatives fail? Let’s see the evidence! Read More »
“Modern” processes and practices for product design, development, and management are a complex topic. Let’s start by saying that there are just too many: too many different methods, tools, and ways to do your craft. Just consider the following table: There are myriad of options, without any “leader” or de-facto way of using them. Additionally,
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Most modern product companies are trying to work with empowered interdisciplinary product teams. One of the prerequisites and most essential transformations to achieve this work model is to be outcome-based instead of output-based. There is a lot of information about it, like Marty Cagan’s articles or articles about the feature factory trap. Yet, today I
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3 tools to measure and pivot before its too late A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to create a successful product strategy and succeed in a process that most companies fail. However, we still face a challenge: this well-crafted strategy is supposed to provide a direction for execution for approximately 9 to 24 months.
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Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. — George S. Patton I’ve recently written about concrete steps to create a great product strategy, but… a Strategy is truly great only if it is greatly executed. While we can think of execution as “building the
Executing Product Strategy like Patton: using OKRs, Comms, and Pivots to succeed Read More »
A 3 step no-BS product strategy process Defining the product’s strategy is a complex problem. But considering all the hard activities companies must do, this is one with surprisingly high failure rates. Furthermore, when we try to learn how to do it right, we find plenty of material about strategy, that is full of “motivational” or
Why do companies suck at Product Strategy? (and how to fix it) Read More »
(My experience working at this “CPTO” role for the last two years) Depending on company age, industry, and evolution, they have very different structures for their product development organizations. Since going into the details of those different scenarios may require a very long article, I want to focus on companies that are in a situation similar
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In 1945 Picasso created probably his most famous set of bull drawings, called “The Bull”. The collection of 11 pictures starts with a series of drawings that start gaining detail and realism in the first iterations. But after the third, it starts moving towards cubism, dissecting the bull part by part, making each piece more
What can Pablo Picasso teach us about Product Strategy? Read More »
By Making Uncertainty Explicit with the Problem, Solution, Delivery framework There is an immense amount of “How to” roadmap articles. I hope this will not be yet another one of those… As a brief introduction, we will probably agree that roadmaps have a series of challenges, including: Communicating with different audiences: how do you use a
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Product Management is really hard. In the last few months, I have written about my top 5 challenges. As I plan to write about the next 5 challenges in the near future, I just wrote this summary of the ones I have previously posted for easier access 🙂 Part I — Measuring Product Development Part II
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