Product Leadership

A collection of articles on product leadership including choosing the right leadership styles, increasing your authority, managing the stakeholders, working with development teams and Scrum Masters, dealing with difficult people, and making effective product decisions.

Building High-Performing Product Teams

"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team," Steve Jobs once said. This…

3 weeks ago

How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

To create value, product people, stakeholders, and development teams have to work together. But when people collaborate, things don’t always…

4 months ago

Should Head of Product Make Strategic Product Decisions?

The head of product role and the product strategy are often linked. But should a head of product make strategic…

6 months ago

Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People

As the person in charge of the product, you have a rewarding but challenging job. A key challenge is leading…

10 months ago

Empathy in Product Management

I was recently asked at a product management conference what superpower product people should have. I didn’t have to think…

1 year ago

What Should Head of Product Do?

Becoming a head of product is a career aspiration for many product managers and product owners. But what exactly should…

1 year ago

Product Teams in Scrum

Scrum is a powerful framework that connects the person in charge of the product with the individuals designing and building…

1 year ago

10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Meetings are essential to align the stakeholders and development team members and make the right product decisions. But we’ve all…

1 year ago

A Learning Roadmap for Product People

Working in product management can be very rewarding. But it can also be very challenging. One of the reasons is…

2 years ago

Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

As the person in charge of the product, you rely on the development team to do a good job. But…

2 years ago