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.

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 week 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…

4 months 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…

5 months 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…

10 months 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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year 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…

2 years ago

Should a 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…

2 years 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…

2 years 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…

2 years ago