Tag: Cross-Functional Collaboration
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As implementation gets faster and cheaper, the bottleneck in product development can shift toward product management and design. Engineers can turn an idea into working software while the team is still figuring out which problem matters, how people will use the solution, and whether anyone will pay for it. Product and Design Are Getting Faster…
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Over the past couple of years, I have had a few product people on my team, received coaching myself, and picked up a lot from conversations with other PMs, founders, and people who think deeply about building products. The contexts are always different. Different industries, team sizes, stages. But two patterns keep coming up with…
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Most people who work in product development agree that it is essential to understand key problems in order to build good solutions. This often involves understanding the customer or finding new products. It has also become common for engineers, who are responsible for building the product, to be involved from the start. This is explained…
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In my last blog post, “The Framework Trap,” I talked about all the problems we ran into when engineers, designers, and product team members were working together. I’ve come to see that Scrum, with its strong emphasis on the right processes, has actually been more of a hindrance than a help to our team. While…
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Over the past 12-18 months, we have established the initial structures for a middle management level within our company. The reason for this was that the number of employees had increased significantly from just under 10 to over 30, which would have resulted in a management depth of around 15 people with only two founders.…