Aligned Strategies? Consistent with last year’s findings in the 2012 Study of Product Team Performance, the importance of having a corporate strategy that the product team can link to and …
What Product Team Role has the Most Influence with the Executive Team?
In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance we asked “what product team member had the most influence with the executive team?” The responses were overwhelming tilted in the direction …
What Percentage of Product Managers Rely Upon Influence Versus Direct Control?
In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance we asked product team members to indicate how well defined the role of the product manager was in their organization. Respondents told …
Silicon Valley Code Camp, SVPMA, and ProductCamp San Francisco All in Two Weeks!
Product Management is alive and well in San Francisco and Silicon Valley! Over the next two weeks Ron Lichty and I will be canvasing three different venues where product managers …
Waterfall’s Death Knell?
A startling fact emerged from this year’s study of product team performance – Waterfall is continuing to lose ground. Not too surprising on the surface of it but when you …
The Most Frequently Cited Obstacles to a Product Team’s Success
Our research into the dynamics of product teams it primarily focused upon what differentiates high performance teams from less effective ones. However, each year we ask a question geared at …