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Who Really Owns the Requirements Backlog?
It’s often assumed that product owners and product managers are singularly responsible for the requirements backlog. While this is true in many instances – this assumption does not hold true in all...
View ArticleFour Factors That Contribute to High Performance on Product Teams
This week we released our fourth annual Study of Product Team Performance. As always, we gleaned a wide range of valuable insights into what enables some teams to overachieve and others to flounder....
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How Much Time Do Product Managers Spend In The Field?
Time spent with customers is precious. Organizations often talk about the importance of capturing “the voice of the customer” and product managers are directed to collect meaningful customer input....
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The Actual Amount of Time Product Managers Spend with Customers
Last week I wrote a post about the percent of time product team members believe product managers spend with customers. Interestingly, it turns out that product team members hold a rosier view of how...
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Turnovers Impact On Product Teams
The skill and aptitude of product team members has a significant impact on product team performance. But quality is not the only indicator of whether a team is likely to be high performing. The...
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Are Organizations Effective At Decision-Making?
There is no question that effective decision-making is an important element of success. However, in our latest market research it appears that organizations are not as effective at making and sticking...
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Unforeseen Issues: Nimbleness Matters
Unforeseen issues are common to all product teams. In this year’s Study of Product Team Performance our latest regression analysis illustrates that a teams ability to quickly recover from an unforeseen...
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Product Development Methodology Utilization in 2015
In 2012 we began tracking product development methodology utilization by product teams and their organizations. It has been interesting to watch the exponential rise of Agile (Scrum in particular) and...
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Stand-Ups Drive Improved Performance – True or False?
Analysis of this year’s data reveals the importance of regularly conducting effective stand-up meetings. In fact, the more frequently stand-up meetings are held, the more likely product teams are to...
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User Experience’s Continuing Rise
First A Glance Back The importance of user experience to an organization’s products grows each year. User experience first emerged as a statistically significant factor in our 2014 study when we...
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Product Profitability: Which Development Methods Favorably Impact Profitability?
Back in 2012 I was presenting findings from our first annual study of product team performance when I was asked by a product manager “how does the choice of product development methodology impact a...
View ArticleOffice Taboo? Encouraging Contrarian Viewpoints
It has been said that all organizations are a bit tribal. They are perceived as rewarding those who follow the herd and don’t stick their necks out too far. However, organizations that adopt this...
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Product Development Methodology Adoption Rate Trend Line: 2012 To 2015
Over the last four years we have been closely tracking adoption rates for various product development methodologies. It has been fascinating to track the exponential rise of Agile methodologies,...
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Innovation: Product Management’s Sweet Spot
Organizations value innovation. While everyone agrees that innovation is an important activity the effective execution of innovation activities is often more difficult to achieve. In fact, we have...
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Core Product Team Performance and Size
In our latest market research we asked two questions related to core product teams. By “core” we mean the central members who play a day-to-day role in product development activities. The first...
View ArticleProduct Roadmap and Product Strategy – What’s the Difference?
Earlier this week a good friend of mine, who works in technology, asked me a question – what’s the difference between product strategy and a product roadmap? It turns out that the majority of product...
View ArticleProduct Vision: Why Should I Have One?
Last week I wrote a post describing the difference between product strategy and product roadmaps. All too often product roadmaps are created without the benefit of a coherent product strategy which...
View ArticleKey Findings Product Managers Should Pay Attention To
For the last four years we have been conducting a global study of product teams. Last year approximately 1,500 organizations participated in our survey. Once complete, we provide the data to an...
View ArticleThe Technology Stack Fallacy
Over the weekend I was catching up on some reading material that had been piling up during the week. One of the articles, written by Christopher Mims of the WSJ, caught my eye. Christopher was...
View ArticleLeading With Integrity
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity” – Zig Zigler There are many ways to become a successful leader. Great leaders, regardless of their roots or path in...
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