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.

Succeeding with the Product Operating Model

This article explains how you can successfully implement the product operating model—based on my experience of helping companies introduce and…

2 weeks ago

Should Product Teams be Self-Managing?

Product teams play a key role in solving user problems and achieving product success. But who should lead the team…

2 months ago

5 Tips to Succeed with Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder management is as important as it is challenging: Without the support of the stakeholders, it is virtually impossible to…

4 months ago

Product Leadership FAQs

How product leadership is practised has a big impact on the success of individual products and the product management group…

6 months ago

Setting up Product Teams for Success

Product teams are key in enabling product-led growth and offering successful products. In this article, I explain what product teams really…

12 months ago

How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

It may not be pleasant to experience, but conflict is necessary to innovate successfully. Without competing ideas, it's virtually impossible…

1 year ago

Should Stakeholders Be on the Product Team?

A product team is a cross-functional group whose members work together to achieve product success. Most people would agree that…

2 years ago

Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap

The most amazing product strategy and product roadmap are ineffective if the stakeholders don’t support them. Without their buy-in, you’ll…

2 years ago

Understanding Empowerment in Product Management

Being empowered can make all the difference in doing a great job. Sadly, not all product people have the authority…

2 years ago

Decoding Product Leadership

Strong product leadership is crucial to offering successful products and enabling product-led growth. Unfortunately, there is disagreement and confusion about…

2 years ago