Product management is the business process of defining a product vision, setting the product strategy, and executing on it by solving customer problems in ways that customers love and work for the business.Product leadership today isn’t about roadmaps and backlogs — not for teams that are actually working. AI has changed what “shipping” means and raised the bar for judgment, not lowered it. Many organisations, such as Wall Street English, are going one step further, merging their Product and Technology divisions under a single Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). I am currently CPTO at Wall Street English.
Let’s bring Product Leadership into your business together
The organisations pulling ahead aren’t the ones with the best roadmap software. They’re the ones whose leaders can tell the difference between a feature that’s technically impressive and one that solves a problem the market will pay for — and who’ve built teams that can move fast without losing that judgment. As with Technology Leadership, success depends on each organisation’s ability to embrace, resource and execute the activities needed to embed product leadership into the corporate DNA.
Drawing on my experience leading Product and Technology together in the real world, I will help you set up the right product leadership capability for your business: finding and enabling internal talent, partnering with coaching and skills development providers, and exploring recruitment and team topology; as well as scaling up successful products into engines of profit or whole new businesses.
Contact me to find out how I can help you with Product Leadership
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What Happens When Distributed Teams Share a Room for Two Weeks
Some of my teams have spent a week in the same room for the first time. Distributed teams like these normally work across continents, with the product managers and some of the designers on one side and the engineers and the rest of the designers on the other. Many of them had never met in…
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Steering, Not Rowing: Ambition Is the New Bottleneck
For most of your career, the way to become more valuable was to row harder and better than the people around you. Ship more. Ship cleaner. Be the one whose work needed the least correction. That is changing, and the change is uncomfortable for the people who were best at it.
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Codify to Translate
Most documentation is judged on whether it is findable and current. Neither question asks whether the next actor can act on it without a translator. When that actor is an AI agent, prose written for humans does not count as codified.